many -veined or lineate underneath, green on both sides, 

 rough and hairy but not tomentose, longer than the pe- 

 duncles, except when drawn up within doors. Flower- 

 stems terminal or axillary, thickly clothed with unequal 

 soft spreading weak hairs. Peduncles in a sort of pani- 

 cle, terminal or axillary, 1 or 2-flowered, oftentimes in 

 a sort of umbel, shorter than the leaf, at their base Of a 

 brownish purple colour, thickly clothed with soft 

 spreading hairs that are purple at the base, the leaves 

 at the base of the peduncles are fringed with purple 

 hairs. Calyx of 3 sepals, densely clothed with rigid 

 purple bristle-like hairs : sepals broadly ovate, acute, 

 concave, with membranaceous edges, a little keeled at 

 the back. Petals 5, broadly obovate, finely crenulate, 

 very much overlapping each other, of a golden yellow, 

 each with a large dark spot near the base, which bran- 

 ches a little. Stamens from 40 to 45, spreading : fila- 

 ments smooth, unequal in length, of a bright yellow, 

 with purple points : anthers dark purple before burst- 

 ing : pollen orange-coloured. Germen densely tomen- 

 tose. Style very short. Stigma large, capitate, pustu- 

 lose. 



For the opportunity of giving a figure of this hand- 

 some plant, w r e are obliged to Mr. J. Miller, of the 

 Bristol Nursery, from whom we received it, and it is 

 readily distinguished from all others of the section to 

 which it belongs, by the stiff bristle-like purple hairs 

 on the calyx ; as far as we can judge by the descrip- 

 tion, we believe it to be the H. rugosmn of Dunal, in 

 Decandolle's Prodromus, which is a native of Portugal. 

 It succeeds well in a light soil, consisting of an equal 

 portion of sandy loam and peat, and if planted by the 

 side of a wall in a southern aspect, and covered with a 

 mat in severe frost, it will succeed very well, or it may 

 be grown in pots, and kept under glass in frames, or 

 in the Greenhouse in frosty weather, but should be ex- 

 posed to the air as much as possible when the weather 

 is mild ; the time of flowering is from June to August. 

 Cuttings, planted under hand-glasses, in August or 

 September, strike root readily. 



