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CH^NOSTOMA POLYANTHUM. 
displaying to advantage its character on rock-work, and at the same time intro- 
ducing to such a situation a very pleasing object. 
In cultivation nothing is much more easily managed ; seeds are produced very 
abundantly, and cuttings strike with great readiness. It will grow well in any good 
garden soil. When being treated as an annual, with a view to keep up a succession 
of flowers, the time when these are wished to be had must regulate the period at 
which the seeds are sown. 
The Messrs. Henderson, of Pine Apple Place, permitted our drawing to be taken 
from a plant in their fine collection. 
Chtmostoma is from the Greek chaino, to gape, and stoma, a mouth, in reference 
to the wide throat of the corolla. 
