anthers. Germen and aristcB villous. Style purple, with 
a few hairs near the base, the upper part smooth and 
glossy. Stigmas 5, purple, reflexed or revolute. 
Our drawing of this plant was taken at the Nursery of 
Mr. Colvill, where it was raised from seed : it is of hybrid 
origin, and the seed was produced by P. involucratum e 
lilacinum that had been fertilized by P. ignescens ; several 
plants that have been raised by the same parents, have all 
proved precisely the same, without the least variation ; jn 
the same manner as we have noticed by the produce of 
P. MostynoB mixed with P. ignescens, which have in- 
variably produced P. flammeum, without variation ; we 
have noticed the same in several other mule productions, 
so that if any sort should happen to be lost by inattention 
or otherwise, it might be again raised, if its original 
parents are known. 
The present plant is of very free growth, and an abun- 
dant bloomer, and continues to flower the greater part 
of the year ; a mixture of turfy loam, peat, and sand, is a 
very proper soil for it ; and cuttings root readily, planted in 
pots in the same sort of soil, and placed in a sheltered 
part of the Greenhouse. 
