white membrane, with one arifta, hooked at the point and 
longer than the other. 
When firft raifed from feeds, the whole plant is hoary ; but 
on the fecond year, the hoarinefs is depofited, and the colour 
of the leaves becomes of a fine dark green, which, contrafted 
with the brilliant orange-coloured flowers, adds much to the 
pleafing effe€t. So that thofe who treat it as an annual plant, 
never fee it in its moft perfe& ftate. 
Native of South-America and the Weft-Indies. Requires to 
be kept in the ftove. Flowers moft part of the fummer. Cul- 
tivated, as we learn from Moriso N, in the Botanic Garden at 
Oxford, in 1699. Our drawing was taken at the Right Hon, 
Lord Hottann’s, in Auguft 1812, 
