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tate ; the flowers large, purplish red with dark streaks, and 

 produced in clusters. It is a very free growing plant. There 

 is a variety called cor datum-major. 



P. australe^ or New- Holland, This has a short stem, 

 with numerous hairy branches, and cordate leaves with large 

 unequal crenatures; the flowers white and bright red in 

 streaks. It is a neat little plant, flowering and ripening its 

 seeds abundantly. 



P.fulgidum, or Fulgent Celandine Leaved. A shrubby 

 flexuose stem, with few branches; the leaves lernate, and 

 leaflets sessile, deeply toothed, and pinnatifid ; the flowers 

 small, of a deep scarlet, with dark spots and lines : the 

 flower is one of the most brilliant of the genus. The plant 

 being rather succulent, requires care not to water it over 

 much. 



P. coarctatumLavalettea, or Close Leaved. A shrubby 

 much branched stem, with numerous crowded leaves of a 

 cordate or kidney shape ; the flowers are large, deep red 

 striped with black. Its culture is easy, and it is a pretty 

 plant. 



P. sanguineum, or Crimson. This has a shrubby succu- 

 lent stem, not much branched, and knotted at the different 

 joints; the leaves decompound, smooth, and of a light green ; 

 the flowers of a deep scarlet or blood colour marked with 

 black. It is quite a rare variety. 



P. versicolor, or Various Coloured. A shrubby branch- 

 ing stem, with flat, cordate, five lobed leaves, and large 

 flowers, whose colour is of a dark and light red streaked 

 with red and black. It grows freely, and flowers abund- 

 antly. 



P. macranthon, or Large Flowered. This has a flexuose 

 stem, with large leaves, hairy on both sides, reniform, and 

 deeply tooihed ; the flowers are extremely large and splen- 

 did, being white finely striped and blotched with purple. It 

 is one of the largest flowering of the whole genus. 



P. baileyanum, or Bailey's. A branching stem, with kid- 

 ney shaped truncate leaves and large flowers, which are 

 white and dark brown. It flourishes with but little atten- 

 tion, and blooms freely. 



P. husseyanum, or Lady Hussey's.This is also called 

 Brown's Duke of York. It has a branching stem, with dark 

 green cordate lobed leaves and fine large dark red flowers. 

 It is a strong and robust plant, flowering abundantly all the 

 summer. 



