base, 7 bearing anthers. Style purple, very long, hairy 
Dase and smooth upwards. Stigmas 5, purple. 
We suspect this plant to be a hybrid production, 
probably between P. acerifolmm and P. lanceolatum. 
It has been long in the collections about London, where 
It has generally been taken for a real species. It is 
now becoming rather scarce through the rage for no- 
velty, and we were afraid that it had quite disappeared 
till we saw It in the collection of Robert H. Jenkinson, 
iisq. where our drawing was taken. It is a pretty 
flowering plant and more hardy than P. principissce. 
It thrives well in a mixture of turfy loam, peat, and 
sand, or any other rich light soil; and cuttings root 
treely it planted m pots and placed in a sheltered si- 
tuation. 
