tinged with dark brown, and marked from the base with 
several dark Hnes that are slightly branched ; lower ones 
also marked with Q dark lines near the base, and between 
them tinged with dark brown. Filaments 10, united at 
the base, 7 bearing anthers, which are always fertile : no 
spatulate one, as might be expected from its habit. Pollen 
pale yellow. Style pale flesh-colour, hairy. Stigmas 5, 
pale red, reflexed. 
A very curious hybrid production, raised at the Nursery 
of Mr. Colvill, in 1822, from a seed of V.ftilgidum that 
had been fertilized by the pollen of P. sanguineum, and it 
is as near as possible intermediate between its two parents ; 
its flowers are not to be surpassed in brilliancy of colour, 
by any with which we are acquainted ; and by its singu- 
larity and decided difference from all others, makes it truly 
desirable. It requires precisely the same kind of manage- 
ment, as others of the same tribe ; a mixture of light turfy 
loam, peat, and sand, suit it very well ; and cuttings taken 
off* when in a free growing state, will soon strike root, if 
planted in pots in the same kind of soil, and placed on a 
shelf in the green-house, giving them no water for the first 
2 or 3 days, till the cut is dried up, or they will be apt to 
rot. It may also be increased from the little tubers of its 
roots. 
