yellow : pollen orange-coloured. Style bent at the base, 

 smooth. Stigma capitate, papillose. 



Our drawing of this pretty species was made from a 

 plant at the Nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and 

 Milne, at Fulham, who raised it from seeds several years 

 since, that had been given them by A. P. Hove, Esq. 

 as the H. tauricum of Dr. Fischer ; it has most probably 

 been confused with H. grandiflorum by many authors, as 

 that species is said to be a native of Tauria, as well as of 

 the South of Europe ; but when the plants are seen grow- 

 ing together, no two species had need appear more dis- 

 tinct, the present spreading flat on the ground, and ex- 

 tending its branches round to a great distance, and these 

 are only slightly suffrutescent at the base, whereas H. 

 grandiflorum grows upright, or its branches spreading 

 and ascendent, forming a neat little bushy shrub. 



The present plant is well adapted for the ornamenting 

 of rock- work, as its spreading branches will cover a 

 good space in a short time, and it is easily kept within 

 bounds, by cutting in the longest branches occasionally, 

 the young branches that then shoot out will all be ter- 

 minated by racemes of flowers, so that by that means a 

 succession of bloom may be kept up from the latter end 

 of May till October ; it succeeds well in a light sandy 

 soil, or a mixture of loam and peat will suit it very 

 well ; young cuttings, planted under hand-glasses the 

 latter end of Summer, will strike root in a few days. 



