* CALANDRlNIA discolor. 

 Discoloured Calandrinia. 



POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. PortulacacE/E. 

 CALANDRINIA. Bot. Reg. fol. WM. 



C. discolor ; caule sufFruticoso, foliis carnosls obovatis obtusis in petiolum an- 

 gustatis, racemo cernuo secundo, pedunculis defloratis deflexis, petalis calyce 

 pluries longioribus. 



Fades omnino C. grandifiorcE , qua difFert foliis magis obtusis, subtus SEep^ dis- 

 coloribus, floribus inulto 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 advantiage as an annual. In all its habits and in its 

 appearance it much resembles C. grandijiora, 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. grandijiora 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. 



