we have given it, having seen many fine specimens of 

 it in Mr. Lambert's Herbarium, which were collected 

 in Crete, of which country it is a native; most authors 

 have described it as bearing only three flowers on the 

 peduncle, but amongst Mr. Lambert's specimens were 

 several producing the flowers in a sort of cyme, as in 

 our figure. In the same collection, and from the same 

 country, were two other species, one marked C. salvi- 

 foliuSj the other C. monspeliensis, both of which were 

 different from the original^ species ; and we have since 

 found living plants of both at the Nursery of Messrs. 

 Whitley, Brames, and Milne, at Fulham, and have 

 procured fine figures of them ; they were most proba- 

 bly introduced by Dr. Sibthorp, when he returned from 

 Greece, and have been in our collections ever since, 

 without being ever noticed. 



As the present species is a native of Crete, it will 

 require protection in severe weather, either to be kept 

 in a greenhouse or frames, or to be planted against a 

 south wall or in rock- work, and to be covered with 

 mats or some other covering in severe frost, but to be 

 exposed as much as possible in mild weather : a light 

 sandy soil will suit it best; or if grown in pots, an 

 equal mixture of light turfy loam and peat will suit it 

 very well. Young cuttings taken off at a joint, and 

 planted under hand-glasses, in September or October, 

 will sopn strike root ; it may also be raised from seeds, 

 which will ripen occasionally. 



The present species, and also C. purpureus, belong 

 to the second division of M. Decandolle's section 

 ERYTHROCISTUS, containing those with a very short 

 or scarcely any style. 



