different directions; 3 loiver petals oblong, obtuse, dark 
rose colour. Filaments 10, united at the base, 7 only 
bearing anthers. Pollen of a dark orange colour. 
Germen downy. Style slightly hairy, purple. Stigmas 
5, purple, reflexed. 
This beautiful plant is known in many of our col- 
lections by the title of the Duchess of Gloucester's 
Geranium : we have named it from the curious circum- 
stance of water dissolving the colour of its petals, a 
circumstance which we first observed in a plant which 
had been watered over the flowers in the greenhouse, 
and have often noticed it since, in plants out of 
doors, after a shower of rain, or watering over head: 
we have likewise noticed the same effect in some 
other kinds of nearly the same colours, but in a less de- 
gree. We suppose it to be of hybrid origin, perhaps 
between P. cucullatum, or P. angulosum, and some 
other kind; it comes the nearest to P. cochleatum of 
JVilldenow's Enumeratio of any we have seen described: 
it is a robust and free-growing plant, continues in 
flower a great part of the year, and will thrive in any 
tolerably good soil, or a mixture of loam and leaf 
mould will suit it as well as any. Cuttings strike root 
freely in the same kind of soil, and a common green- 
house or light room is sufficient to protect it in winter, 
when it should be watered sparingly. 
The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. 
Colvill and Son, in the King's Road, ia September last. 
