more than 3 times longer than the calyx. PetahS, 
roundly obovate, the 2 upper ones largest ; the upper pirt 
of a dark chocolate colour, edged with yellow, the lover 
part also pale yellow : lower ones narrower, dark chocolite 
colour, edged with yellow. Filaments 10, united at he 
base, 5 bearing perfect anthers, the back one a large s)a- 
tulate one, as in the Section Monospatalla, two bick 
sterile ones a little reflexed ; those, also, make an attenpt 
at anthers, but it is very imperfect ; the other 3 incurved, 
as in its parent. Style green, slightly hairy. Stigmasi 5, 
yellowish, reflexed. 
This curious plant is a hybrid production, and vas 
raised in 1823 at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, from a s«ed 
of P. multiradiatum that had been fertilized by the polen 
of P. gibhosum ; it is intermediate between both parents in 
every part of the plant ; even the character of the flowers 
are intermediate between the two sections, having tht 5 
fertile anthers of P. multiradiatum, with the spatukte 
filament of P. gibhosum, and an attempt at the other t*vo 
anthers : like its two parents, its flowers are without sc^nt 
during the day, and in the evening are very strongly 
scented, and most pleasant at a little distance ; the scmt 
of the flowers, as well as the leaves, partake a good dsal 
of the Rue, which is rather too powerful to be near; in he 
natural arrangement it must be placed with P. multirada- 
tum, in Decandolle's Section Polyactium, to stand n3Xt 
to our Section Monospatalla. 
The habit of the present plant is altogether diffennt 
from any other, which makes it the more desirable ; two 
plants were raised from seeds at the same time, and we 
cannot perceive the slightest difference in them ; they also 
came in flower together for the first time, in July la^t ; 
being of a succulent nature, it does not require mich 
water, except when in flower or growing freely ; like .he 
other succulent species, it succeeds well in an equal nix- 
ture of turfy loam, peat, and sand ; and cuttings root freely 
on a shelf in the Greenhouse. 
