about the middle, of an orangy scarlet, marked with nume- 
rous dark lines and spots, which branch nearly all over the 
petals : lower petals about half the width, of the same 
colour, marked with two dark lines near the base, which 
are also slightly branched. Filaments 10, united into an 
inflated tube, 7 bearing anthers. Style pale, very hairy. 
Stigmas 5, purple, revolute, or reflexed. 
This very singular plant is a hybrid production, and 
was raised in the superb collection of R. H. Jenkinson, 
Esq. from a seed of V.fulgidum^ which, from the appear- 
ance of the present plant, we should suspect had been fer- 
tilized by the pollen of P. verhencBfolium, as it seems to 
be exactly intermediate between the two, although its 
flowers are not so large as many others, yet their number, 
and the brilliancy of their colour, makes up for that defi- 
ciency ; the flowers are produced in panicles, so that the 
upper part of the plant is oftentimes covered with its sin- 
gular blossoms, which may not unaptly be compared to 
flying insects, to which, in our opinion, when the petals are 
spread out, they bear a great resemblance, and from which 
our specific name is derived. 
Like its nearest allies, the present plant succeeds well 
in an equal mixture of turfy loam, peat, and sand, and 
cuttings root readily, planted in pots in the same sort of 
soil, and placed on a shelf in the Greenhouse. 
