This handsome flowering plant is of hybrid origin, 
and was raised from seed at the Nursery of Mr. Col- 
vill, produced from a plant received from Sir R. C. 
Hoare, under the name of P. Amanda; this had been 
fertilized by the pollen of one of the larger sorts, but 
we cannot refer with certainty to its variety.^ The pre- 
sent plant is far superior in beauty to the original, and 
is also of stronger growth, attaining to the middle sta- 
ture of the genus. It grows very freely in a mixture 
of light sandy loam and peat, and flowers abundantly 
all the summer. Cuttings of it strike root readily, if 
taken off* in a young state : these must be planted in 
pots in the same kind of soil, and may be placed on a 
shelf in the greenhouse. 
Our drawing was taken, in August last, at the 
Nursery of Mr. Colvill. 
