obtained a new specific as well as generic name; it was after¬ 
wards nearly lost, and the first time I ever saw it was in Cam¬ 
bridge Botanic Garden, whence I procured a plant for W. W. 
Saunders, Esq. Since then that gentleman has received plants 
of it, as well as G. fallax and G. dodrantalis , from either 
Madeira or the Canary Islands. 
u In cultivation, I may say that it is triennial; when it has 
once bloomed it dies, and the only method of reproduction, ex¬ 
cept by seed, is to cut out the centre of the plant with a sharp 
knife, after which operation it will produce offsets which take 
root freely; in texture it is so very compact as well as concave, 
that full-grown plants will hold and retain a wineglass-full of 
water, without its filtering through between the leaves.” 
We have but to add, that the exigencies of our Plate will not 
admit of our giving to it more than half its natural size, and 
that a very small portion of the large head of flowers (which 
are of a bright yellow colour) has been introduced. 
