Filaments 10, united at the base, seven bearing anthers. 
Style pale purple, slightly hairy at the base and smooth 
upwards. Stigmas 5, purple, reflexed. 
This grand plant is a hybrid production, and was 
raised, last year, from seed, by Mr. Smith, at the Earl 
of Liverpool's, Coombe Wood. We should suppose 
one of its parents to be P. oblatum or P. eximium, and 
the other P. ignescens. It is the strongest grower of 
the scarlet sorts that we have yet seen. The plant 
from which our drawing was taken, being about three 
feet high, and very strong and bushy, with an amazing 
panicle of flowers on the centre shoot, which gave it a 
very grand appearance. It requires the same kind of 
treatment as others of the free-growing sorts; any 
light rich mould, or a mixture of turfy loam, peat, and 
sand, will suit it very well. Cuttings strike root rea- 
dily, planted in pots and placed on a shelf in the 
greenhouse. 
