This very handsome plant is of hybrid origin, the 
produce of P. echinatum, mixed with the pollen of P. 
scepeflorens. We have named it, in compliment to Miss 
C. Stapleton, of Greys Court, Henley on Thames, a 
lady much attached to the GERANiACEiE, and to whom 
we feel much obliged. Like its parents, the present 
plant is of a succulent habit, and is as near as possible 
intermediate between the two ; but its flowers are more 
beautiful than either: it is also of shorter and more 
upright growth. It was raised from seed, in 1822, at 
the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, and flowered last autumn 
for the first time. We expect it will remain scarce for 
some time, as it produces but few branches; but it will 
probably be more readily increased by the tubers of its 
roots, when it attains a proper size. An equal mixture 
of turfy loam, peat, and sand, is the most proper com- 
post for it, watering it but sparingly in winter. The 
best time for planting the cuttings is when the plant is 
growing most freely; they must be planted in the same 
kind of soil, and placed on a shelf in the greenhouse. 
We understand we are very much envied in a cer- 
tain quarter for raising so many beautiful hybrid plants ; 
and more so for publishing them : but we mind not 
their envy, as long as we are so ably supported by our 
numerous subscribers, to whom we beg our most grate- 
ful acknowledgments, and who we shall always use our 
utmost endeavours to please, by giving figures and de- 
scriptions of the most interesting plants. 
We also have it in contemplation to publish a work 
on the same plan, entirely on hybrid productions of the 
plants of diflferent families ; so many beautiful and inte- 
resting ones, both hardy and tender, having been lately 
raised from seeds in different collections, particularly 
at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill. 
