the two upper ones broadest, of a bright scarlet, tinged 
with brown, and two dark lines running down them, that 
are slightly branched : lower petals of nearly the same 
colour, but the lines fainter. Filaments 10, connected at 
the base, one of them a broadish spatulate one, as in the 
other plants of this section, 6 or 7 bearing anthers. Style 
short, thmly hairy. Stigmas 5, purple, reflexed. 
This curious little plant is of hybrid origin, and appears 
to be intermediate between P. fulgidum and P. pulchel- 
lum, and, like the latter parent, is rather shy in producing 
its flowers ; we do not know by whom it was first raised, 
but we first saw it at the Nursery of Mr. Lee, at Ham- 
mersmith, as long ago as the year 1816 ; it is not so much 
cultivated in our collections as it deserves to be, which we 
believe is chiefly owing to its not being well managed, and 
therefore produces but few flowers ; but when well grown 
and covered with its handsome little flowers, we think none 
can exceed it in brilliancy : the umbels are very often pro- 
liferous, which is also sometimes the case in P. pulchel- 
lum ; it has certainly very little aflinity with P^ ardens, 
with which it has been confused, the habit of the plants 
being totally dissimilar, this being an erect suffruticose 
plant, producing innumerable leafy branches ; whereas 
P. ardens is scarcely more than herbaceous, and produces 
very few leaves or branches, the leaves are also altogether 
difterent. 
The best method of treating the present subject, is to 
pot it in an equal mixture of turfy loam, peat, and sand, 
and to have the pots well drained with potsherds, that it 
may not get sodden with too much wet ; as the pot be- 
comes filled with roots, it should be shifted into a larger one, 
to keep it growing freely, the only method of flowering it 
well : in Winter it requires very little water, and if allowed 
to get too much at that season, it will be very liable to rot 
off. Cuttings planted in pots, root readily, if planted in 
the same sort of soil, and placed on a shelf in the Green- 
house. Drawn at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, in October 
last. 
