star in the centre: in prostrata, the limb is more patent, 
the colour a pale blue, with dark purple streaks, radiating 
from the centre... The stems of paradoxa are stronger, and 
more pubescent, the central one sometimes growing up- 
right, and becoming woody.‘Mr. Davin Cameron, the 
head gardener at Bury Hill, informed us, that one which he 
planted out ina border in. May. last, had; by the latter end 
of August, covered a space of four feet diameter. 
Our drawing was taken at the collection of the late 
Joun Waxker, Esq. in May, 1823, where it was raised 
from seeds, imported from ‘Chili, by Mr. Francis Prace. 
But we had no opportunity of examining the plant parti- 
cularly, and comparing it with prostrata, till we received 
specimens of both species from Bury Hill in August last. 
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