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* CALANDRINIA discolor. 
Discoloured Calandrinia. 
POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. PORTULACACEZE. 
CALANDRINIA. Bot. Reg. fol. 1194. 
C. discolor ; caule suffruticoso, foliis carnosis obovatis obtusis in petiolum an- 
gustatis, racemo cernuo secundo, pedunculis defloratis deflexis, petalis calyce 
pluriés longioribus. 
Facies omnino C. grandiflore, qua differt foliis magis obtusis, subtus sæpè dis- 
coloribus, floribus multó majoribus. 
A most beautiful plant, introduced from the Berlin Bota- 
nic Garden in 1835, by the Horticultural Society, and though 
apparently a half-shrubby plant, capable of being treated 
with advantage as an annual. In all its habits and in its 
appearance it much resembles C. grandiflora, but is much 
handsomer, the flowers being three times as large, and re- 
maining expanded all day long, whether in sunshine or 
shade, while those of C. grandiflora open only in the sun- 
shine. It has probably been published in some continental 
botanical work, but I have not succeeded in meeting with 
any account of it. 
It is a very showy half-hardy species, growing about one 
and a half or two feet high, in any rich -garden soil, and 
flowering from the end of June until destroyed by the frost 
in autumn. 
The seeds, which are produced in abundance, should be 
sown about the beginning of March, and treated in the same 
* See Botanical Register, fol. 1194. 
