10, united at the base, 7 only bearing anthers. Pollen 
of a light orange-colour. Style purple, all over hairy. 
Stigmas 5, purple and revolute. 
Our drawing was taken from a fine plant sent us by 
Sir R. C. Hoare, named in compliment to the Countess 
of Cork, who raised it from seed; we should think it 
was a hybrid production, and, from its habit and cha- 
racter, intermediate between P. superbum and one of 
the Citron-scented kinds, perhaps P. hermanniaefoliumy 
or one of its kin, as the size and shape of the leaves 
are those of the former, and their distichous mode of 
growth, of the latter; the size and shape of the flowers 
participate of the two. It is a fine free-growing plant, 
and an abundant flowerer, beginning to flower early 
in spring, and continuing a succession all the sum- 
mer; it is also a hardy kind, requiring only a com- 
mon greenhouse or warm room to protect it in winter; 
a mixture of turfy loam and peat, or any light vegetable 
mould, suits it very well ; and young cuttings root 
readily, if planted in pots in the same soil and placed 
in a sheltered situation. 
