and glossy, with a long taper point, green, tinged with 

 purple: sepals 3, oblongly lanceolate, concave, the 

 margins scariose and membranaceous. Petals 5, ob- 

 cordate, distinct to the base, a little cupped, margins 

 slightly crenulate, of a golden yellow, with a large 

 black spot a little above the base, edged with purple. 

 Stamens between 40 and 50, overtopping the stigma : 

 filaments very unequal in length, smooth and very 

 slender, bright yellow: anthers dark purple : pollen 

 bright yellow. Germen clothed with silky hairs. Style 

 very short, erect. Stigma capitate, 3-lobed, papillose, 

 flesh-coloured. 



This very handsome species, of which there is a good 

 figure in Cavanille's Icones, is very often confused in 

 the collections with H. algarvense, as is several other 

 species that are belonging to the same section ; we have 

 had them all sent to us as H. algarvense, though dif- 

 ferent in every respect from that species, except in co- 

 lour. The present plant is a native of the South of 

 Europe, so that it requires the protection of a frame 

 in Winter, or to be planted against a south wall, and 

 to be covered with mats in severe frosty weather ; or if 

 planted in rock- work, it should be placed on the south 

 side, and should be covered with a mat or by some 

 other means in sharp frosty weather, but in mild wea- 

 ther, the more it is exposed the better : it succeeds well 

 in a light sandy soil, or if grown in pots, an equal 

 mixture of sandy loam and peat will suit it very well. 

 Cuttings taken off at a joint in the young wood, and 

 planted under a hand-glass, the latter end of Summer, 

 or in Autumn, will soon strike root, and will be nice 

 bushy flowering plants by Spring. Our drawing was 

 made from a plant at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, in 

 July, 1823; the plant from which it was taken was 

 rather drawn up in a greenhouse ; it generally grows 

 more compact. 



