imperfect in our specimens. Style longer than the stamens. 
Stigmas 5, reflexed. 
This plant is also of hybrid origin, and was raised in 
1822, at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, from a seed of V.ful- 
gidum, that had been fertilized by the pollen of P. sangui- 
neum : in habit it is nearly intermediate between its two 
parents, partaking of the glossy foliage of P. sanguineuniy 
and the hollow calyx and nectariferous tube of V.fulgidum : 
like its two parents, it is an abundant bloomer, and requires 
precisely the same mode of treatment, thriving well in a 
mixture of turfy loam, peat, and sand, and requiring but 
little water in Winter. Cuttings of it strike root freely, if 
planted in pots in the same sort of soil, in Spring or Sum- 
mer, but they will not succeed so well if planted in Autumn ; 
it may also be increased by the little tubers of its roots. 
