CALANDRI'NIA GRANDIFLO'RA. 
LARGE-FLOWERED CALANDRINIA. 
Class. Order. 
DODECANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
PORTULACE®. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Chili. 
1 foot. 
June to July. 
Perennial. 
in 1826. 
No. 752. 
Calandrini, after whom the present genus was 
named, was a botanist of Italy. 
Of nearly forty species of Calandrinia which are 
known to botanists, not more than a dozen, we 
believe, are in this country. They are chiefly na- 
tives of Chili, and all belong to the new world. 
The plant under consideration is a greenhouse 
perennial, but may be grown in the open borders, 
as a half-hardy annual, under which mode of treat- 
ment it succeeds admirably, and becomes, both as 
respects its flowers and foliage, a conspicuous or- 
nament in the parterre. Its succulent leaves are 
easily injured by frost; but it is probable that if 
seedling plants were kept in pots, and plunged in 
the open ground to flower, they might then be taken 
up and preserved in the window of a sitting room 
till the following year. Many species of the succu- 
lent tribe are good window plants, requiring very 
little care, and scarcely any water during winter, 
which we conceive would be suitable treatment for 
the Calandrinia, in attempting to keep it without 
the assistance of a greenhouse. The soil for it 
should be light and porous. 
