This fpecies is the moft beautiful of all the genus ; flowefs 

 in June, and continues a long time in bloom. Requires to be 

 kept in bog-earth, to be frequently watered, and flieltered 

 from the mid-day fun. 



Our drawing was taken from a fine plant fent us by Mr. 

 Loddiges, of Hackney, who raifed it from feeds from North- 

 America. In its native fituations in Europe it rarely produces 

 fo many as five (lowers in an umbel. Firft introduced to the 

 Kew Garden by Mr. John Bartram, in 1762. 



