Peduncles thickly clothed with a white pubescence, 

 and some longer hairs intermixed, before flowering 

 cernuous, when in flower erect, after flowering re- 

 curved. Sepals 5, clothed with a short white tomen- 

 tum ; 2 outer ones very small, ovately-lanceolate, hairy ; 

 inner ones ovate, concave, bluntish, membranaceous, 

 strongly 4-ribbed, the ribs more or less hairy. Petals 5, 

 more than double the length of the calyx, very much 

 imbricate, rounded, more or less crumpled, of a bright 

 red inclining to crimson, with an orangy tint near the 

 base. Stamens numerous, scarcely as long as the style, 

 from 70 to 80 : filaments slender, smooth, bright yel- 

 low ; pollen yellow. Germen clothed with dense wool. 

 Style smooth, bent like a bow near the base, the upper 

 part thicker and erect. Stigma capitate. 



This very handsome flowering plant is a native of 

 Spain, and is one of the most ornamental species for 

 the adorning of rock- work : it is also quite hardy, our 

 drawing being taken from a fine plant, growing lux- 

 uriantly with many other handsome species, in the 

 rock- work of the garden belonging to the Apotheca- 

 ries' Company, at Chelsea, in June last; nothing 

 could make a more brilliant appearance, than the va- 

 rious species of different habits, with flowers of various 

 colours with which the plants were decked every day 

 for about two months ; it also makes a handsome ap- 

 pearance when grown in pots, in which it will thrive 

 very well, or on a dry bank in the garden ; nothing is 

 more injurious to this family of plants, than too moist 

 a situation in Winter ; like most of the species of this 

 genus, the present plant grows freely in a mixture of 

 sandy loam and peat, or any light sandy soil ; and 

 young cuttings root readily, if planted under hand- 

 glasses, in a shady situation. 



