account and that of Jacquin, if there were any weight in fuch 
a diftin€tion. 
Though generally confidered as annual, and indeed ufually 
flowering the firft year, yet in our ftoves it is perennial, or at 
leaft biennial, and blooms more perfeétly the fecond year than 
the firft. 
Native of the Weft-Indies. Cultivated by Mitver before 
the year 1731. Flowers in July and Auguft. Propagated by 
feeds ; and is to be conftantly kept in the ftove. Our drawing 
was taken at Mr, Verez’s, at Kenfington-Gore, in July 1812. 
