the base, thickly clothed with long shaggy hairs, 5 
bearing anthers, which in our plants were always bar- 
ren, 2 back sterile filaments elongated and curved 
back like hooks. Germen downy. Aristce villous. 
Style red, hairy at the base, and smooth upwards. 
Stigmas o J red, reflexed. 
Our drawing was taken from a fine plant commu- 
nicated from the garden of the Horticultural Society. 
It is at present scarce in the collections about Lon- 
don, though deserving a place in every one from the 
abundance of its pretty flowers. It begins flowering 
early in spring, and continues in full bloom till late in 
autumn; an equal mixture of loam, peat, and sand, 
is the best soil for it; and cuttings strike root freely, 
planted in pots and placed on a shelf in the greenhouse. 
In all the plants that we have had an opportunity of ex- 
amining, the anthers were without pollen ; in Jacquin's 
figure they are represented perfect, though his flowers 
are not larger than ours. Can it be dioecious? 
