Li nni vs corolla) confifts of five lanceolate, keeled, fharp- 

 pointed leaflets; within thefe are five fmall fcales- or petals 

 fimbriated at the tips, of the fame bright crimfon colour as the 

 calyx, but three times fmaller; thefe appear to be united to- 

 gether with the filaments into a tube at the bafe, but their 

 union if real is flight; this part correfponds with what Lin* 

 n.eus calls the netlarium in Gomphrena, alternating with 

 thefe, and of the fame length, are five filaments with fmall 

 round anthers; thefe either fall off very early or there are as 

 in Amaranthus many female flowers without ftamens. The 

 ovary is fuperior, free, globofe, terminated with a ftraiglit 

 ftyle and round villous ftigma. 



Has been hitherto treated as a hardy ftove plant, in which 

 fituation it continues in flower, though not expanded, through 

 the whole of the winter, and feems peculiarly fuited to enliven 

 the bouquets at this feafon when, of the few flowers that occur, 

 there are hardly any to be met with which poffefs fuch a brilliant 

 colour. It has the further advantage of preferving its form 

 and colour when dried as well as the GIobe-Amaranthus. 

 Propagated by cuttings. 



Our drawing was taken in the middle of January from a 

 very fine fpecimen at Mr. Barr's, Nurferyman, Ball's-Pond, 

 Iflingtpn. Its native country is unknown, but is probably 

 South.America, as we infer from its near affinity with Gom- 

 Fhrena brafilienfn. 



