it flowered for the first time in April 1823, in the stove of 

 the Earl of Carnarvon, to whom it had been given. Some 

 of the plants raised from the same pod, together with 

 several other mules of which capense is the mother, have 

 endured the two last winters, without any protection, in an 

 open and unsheltered part of the garden. The size of the 

 plate renders it impossible to give an accurate representa- 

 tion of this fine plant. Its leaf is only distinguishable by 

 the point which is a little less acute from that of C. longi- 

 florum, Appendix p. 11 & 23. Bot. Reg. p. 303. C. capense 

 has from 27 to 31 ovules in a cell; C. erubescens about 5 ; 

 C. erubescente-capense about 14; C. longiflorum from 9 to 

 11. The same gibbosity and connecting membrane at the 

 insertion of the filaments is found in longiflorum and in 

 our mule which derives it from erubescens. It is chiefly 

 distinguishable from longiflorum by the flaccid curvature 

 of the tube in which it follows C. capense, by shorter 

 peduncles and blunter leaves. In expansion, breadth of 

 petals, and number of flowers this mule conforms with the 

 female parent. W. H. 



