height, is branched at top, where the flower-stems are 
produced, and is often irregularly and partially protuberant. 
‘Lhe herbaceous. portion of the plant is lactescent, as 
throughout the genus. _ Leaves substantial, of a tender 
lively green, glossy at the upper surface, in the broad- 
leaved variety sometimes nearly three inches across. Jnfto- 
rescence a leafy upright patent stiffened pyramidal panicle; 
flowers scattered, many, but not close, of a burnt-yellow 
colour, firm and substantial, glossy, scentless. Calya, re- 
markable for being of the colour of the corolla, and-for the: 
upright direction of the leaflets. This has assumed the 
form by which it abides long before the narrower paler 
corolla which is contained within it; and appears for some 
time in its centre as an oblong pointed scarcely taller 
cylinder, at last gradually thrown open by the elastic 
- force of. the stigmas in extending themselves after they 
have received the pollen of the anthers under its enclosure ; 
the segments then fall back in the intervals of the calyx. 
Stigmas five, ultimately radiate to the base, furred at the 
back, where the pollen is retained in a thick coat, carried 
off from the anthers which have been pressed against them 
at that part by the narrow space of the corolla during the 
progress of their extension. ; 
Introduced by Mr. Masson in 1777: but even at this 
day far from a common plant in our collections, notwith- 
standing its handsome bloom and easy culture. If planted 
in a proportionate pot of common sandy loam, and placed 
in the greenhouse in winter, it requires no more care than 
the commonest vegetable of that department of the garden. 
To us it has the formal appearance of an artificial plant. 
- Chiefly, we believe, raised from seed, which is sometimes 
ripened with us. 
__ According to Mr. Masson’s notes preserved in the Bank- 
sian Library, the variety « is found at Madeira on spots 
near the coast, @ on rocks in the interior of the island. 
- The drawing was made from a fine specimen, with seve- 
tal flower-spikes, at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, 
and Milne, in the King’s Road, Parson’s Green, Fulham. 
a A vertical section of the whole flower, the line passing on one side the 
Style. .6 The receptacle holding the ovula of one cell of the germen. c The 
dilated coronally converging bases of the filaments. d A segment of the 
corolla. e A leaflet of the calyx. , 
