cylindrical, villosely hairy, nodding before the flowers 

 expand, then becoming erect. Calyx of 5 sepals, densely 

 clothed with spreading villous white hairs ; outer se- 

 pals broadly cordate, rounded, with a short point, of a 

 brownish colour, margins slightly reflexed ; inner ones 

 membranaceous, terminated by a sharp, rigid, brown 

 point. Petals 5, or sometimes increased to 6, much 

 imbricate, obcordate, more or less wrinkled, white, with 

 a yellow spot at the base. Stamens numerous, from 

 120 to 150, overtopping the stigma: filaments smooth, 

 straw-coloured : pollen orange-coloured. Germen se- 

 riceous. Stigma large, sessile, capitate, lobed, and 

 papillose. 



Of the present very rare species we have only seen 

 one living plant, w^hich was at the Nursery of Mr. 

 John Lee of Hammersmith, from which our drawing 

 and description were made last June : we believe that 

 no person who ever saw the present species and the 

 C. populifolius of Cavanilles growing together, would 

 ever consider them as varieties of the same species ; we 

 consider them as distinct as any two species in one 

 section had need be. We observed some fine specimens 

 of it in Mr. Lambert's Herbarium, where it was also 

 confused with C. populifolius. Being a native of Bar- 

 bary, we suspect it will also require some protection in 

 Winter, either to be planted against a south wall in 

 rich soil, and to be covered with mats in severe wea- 

 ther, or to be protected in a frame or in the greenhouse 

 in Winter ; when it becomes more plentiful, plants of 

 it may be kept in pots in the frames in Winter, and 

 turned out in the borders in Spring, where they will 

 produce their flowers in greater perfection than if 

 grown in pots : being a large robust growing shrub, it 

 will require stronger soil than the weaker growing- 

 sorts ; a mixture of two- thirds loam and one-third peat 

 will be a proper soil for it when grown in pots. Young 

 cuttings taken off at a joint, the latter end of Summer, 

 will soon strike root, if planted under hand-glasses. 



