The _Convolvulus Cneorum_ is a native of Spain and the Levant, was
cultivated in the Botanic Garden at Chelsea in 1739, and flowers from
May to September. _Ait. Kew._
In size, habit, &c. this species has some affinity to the _Convolvulis
linearis_, figured pl. 289, but differs from it, and other species
usually cultivated with us, in the silky appearance of its foliage,
which it is not in the artist's power to imitate, and for the beauty of
which, more than that of its flowers, it is very generally kept in
collections of green-house plants; its blossoms are nearly white and
rarely or never productive of seeds in this country, hence it is
increased by cuttings.
It is a hardy green-house plant, requiring a dry rather than a moist
regimen.
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[Illustration: Nº. 460]
Maurandya Semperflorens. Climbing Maurandya, or Bastard Foxglove.
_Class and Order._
Didynamia Angiospermia.
_Generic Character._
_Caps._ bilocularis, truncata, bisulca, apice inæqualiter
dehiscens. _Cor._ ringens, tubulosa campanulata, ventricosa,
bisulcato-plicata.
_Specific Character and Synonyms._
MAURANDYA _semperflorens_ caule fruticoso scandente, foliis
hastatis nervosis. _C. G. Orteg. Nov. Pol. Dec. 2. p. 21._