lower ones of an oblong oval, of a bright lilac, with a 
purple spot at the base. Stamens 10, united at the base, 
5 bearing anthers, which in our specimens were all im- 
perfect, 2 upper sterile ones, elongated and recurved, of a 
dark purple. Style clothed at the base with unequal, 
spreading hairs, the upper part smooth. Stigmas 5, 
purple, reflexed. 
This very handsome plant is a hybrid production, and 
is intermediate between C. cana and C. holosericea ; it 
was raised at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill from seed, in 
1823, and flowered this Spring for the first time, and we 
consider it the most beautiful plant of the tribe that has 
yet been raised; like its relatives, it grows freely in a 
mixture of turfy loam, peat, and sand ; and cuttings strike 
root readily, if taken off in the young wood, and planted 
in pots in the same sort of soil, and placed on a shelf in 
the greenhouse. 
