twice the length of the sepals. Stamens about 200 ; 

 pollen orange coloured. Germen sericeous. Style 

 smooth, flexuose, nearly double the length of the 

 stamens. Stigma capitate, tuberculate. 



This fine species is a native of the Canary Islands, 

 and was introduced to this country about the year 

 1815, by the late Professor Christian Smith; by him 

 the seeds were given to Mr. William Anderson, 

 Curator of the Apothecaries Company's Garden at 

 Chelsea ; and from a strong young plant raised from 

 a cutting, our drawing was taken last summer. In 

 M. Decandolle's Prodromus it is described with solitary 

 one-flowered peduncles ; this was the case with all the 

 old stunted plants at Mr. Anderson's, but the young 

 healthy plants all produced their flowers in a corym- 

 bus, as represented in our figure ; it is also probable 

 that the plants on the rocky mountains of the Canaries 

 are also stunted, and produce single flowered pedun- 

 cles. 



The present species is not sufficiently hardy to bear 

 our winter in the open air, except it be well covered 

 up with mats in severe weather, and dry litter laid 

 about its roots, as recommended for the former 

 species ; it is, however, a hardy greenhouse plant, and 

 will succeed in a common frame, covered up with 

 mats in severe weather, but openly exposed when the 

 weather is fine and mild ; plants preserved in frames 

 through the winter, and turned out in the borders of 

 shrubberies in spring, will answer best. It succeeds 

 well in a light sandy soil, or a mixture of sandy loam 

 and peat suits it very well ; it may be propagated by 

 cuttings planted under hand-glasses, or by seeds, which 

 sometimes ripen. 



