ones ovate, membranaceous, concave, acute, strongly 

 3-nerved, the nerves very prominent, and clothed with 

 bunches of long hairs which are seated on little tuber- 

 cles ; between the nerves smooth and glossy. Petals 5, 

 distinctly spreading, of a cream-coloured white, pale 

 yellow near the base, obovately wedge-shaped, .very 

 slender at the base, slightly crenulate at the ends. Sta- 

 mens about 80 : filaments long, smooth, bright yellow : 

 pollen yellow. Germen densely tomentose. Style smooth, 

 a little bent and slender at the base, thickening up- 

 wards, about the length of the stamens. Stigma large, 

 capitate, papillose. 



Our drawing of the present strong growing and large 

 flowered species, was taken from a plant at the Nursery 

 of Mr. J. Lee, at Hammersmith, where it was culti- 

 vated in pots, and also in the open ground ; it is of 

 rather a loose straggling growth, producing long shoots 

 that spread out on the ground, but its flowers are very 

 large and showy ; it is also quite hardy ; and the best 

 situation for it is rock- work, where it will grow more 

 compact, by being in a dry exposed situation, than it 

 will if planted in rich soil in the flower-borders : young 

 cuttings of it strike root readily if planted under hand- 

 glasses, anytime from July to the end of September; 

 it is nearer related to H. mutabile than to any other 

 species. 



