this Magazine. From a horticultural standpoint there is 
little to choose between them. Both require a sheltered, 
sunny situation, and their full development depends 
greatly upon a warm season. On the Continent they 
flourish better than in our insular climate. Nevertheless, 
in a favourable situation C. trichocalyx has succeeded very 
well at Kew. Writing in the ‘‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle” on 
September 8rd, Mr. Hackett states that it had been in 
flower for two months in a recess on the eastern side of 
‘the Palm House. Its early flowering was due to the pro- 
tection afforded by its sheltered position, and also, in part, 
to its having been covered during the preceding winter. 
Seeds were sent to Kew by Miss Eastwood in November, - | 
1902. They were sown at once, and the young plants, 
after wintering in a cold frame, were placed in their 
present position in the spring of 1903. Miss Parsons 
says :—‘‘ It must be conceded the queen of all our flowers. 
It is not a plant for small gardens, but the fitting adorn- 
ment of a park where it can have space, and light, and 
air.” 
Descr.—A robust, erect, glaucous herb branching from 
the base, slightly bristly on the petioles and elsewhere. 
Stems about five feet high, thick, becoming woody. Stem- 
leaves petioled, thick, at length leathery, pinnatifid, the 
largest about five inches long, gradually smaller upwards ; 
segments seven to three, entire or sparsely toothed. 
Peduncles terminal, one-flowered, leafy almost up to the 
calyx. lowers white, the largest fully six inches across. 
Sepals six, nearly orbicular, about eight or nine lines in 
diameter, overlapping, densely clothed with bristles. 
Petals commonly six, but variable in number and outline. 
Stamens very numerous ; filaments purple below the middle ; 
anthers yellow. Capsule of about ten carpels, narrow- 
ovoid, about nine lines long, densely clothed with rigid 
bristles, dehiscing irregularly. Seeds very numerous, small, 
reniform, white, minutely pitted.—W. Borrinc Hemsuey. 
Fig. 1, sepal from the outside, overlapped part petaloid; 2, an outer 
stamen; 3 and 4, front and back view of an inner stamen; 5, pistil :—all 
enlarged. 
