thickly covered with short stiff hairs. Petals 5, the 
two uppermost broadly cuneate of a bright scarlet, 
marked with numerous black lines which branch in all 
directions, lower petals ligulate of the same colour. 
Filaments 10, united at the base, 7 bearing anthers. 
Pollen pale yellow. Germen and aristce hairy. Style 
green, hairy. Stigmas 5, scarlet, reflexed. 
Our drawing of this fine species, whose brilliancy of 
colour cannot be imitated, was taken at the nursery of 
Messrs. Colvill and Son ; it may be considered as the 
parent stock of several of the most brilliant plants of 
this genus, as from it were raised P. ignescens and P. 
scintillans; it is also one of the parents of P. ardens, 
and we suspect P. Daveyanum was raised from P. 
Barringtomi, mixed with this species, and not from 
P. Ignescens, as we formerly supposed. From the seeds 
of P. ignescens many splendid mules have also been 
raised ; some of them, as P. pavoninum and P. ruhescem, 
have flowered, and we expect to see the flowers of 
several others this season. 
This plant being of a succulent habit, requires to 
be grown in an equal mixture of turfy loam, peat, and 
sand ; and the pots must be well drained, that it may 
not be too wet, though it requires a constant supply 
of water when growing freely ; but in a dormant state 
it should be kept quite dry. Cuttings strike root rea- 
dily, planted in pots and placed in the greenhouse. 
