vided into 5 large unequal erect segments. Nectarife- 
rous tube about 3 times shorter than the calyx, gibbous 
at the base, flattened and furrowed on each side, of a 
reddish brown colour. Petals 5, or sometimes in- 
creased to 6 or 7, of a bright rose colour, generally re- 
flexed ; the two upper ones roundly ovate, when perfect 
they are marked in the centre with a; bright purple 
spot, and from the base branch numerous purple and 
red lines which are lightest at the outsides ; lower 
petals oblongly ovate, obtuse, slightly marked with 
pale red lines. Filaments 10, united at the base, 7 
bearing anthers. Pollen orange-coloured. Germen 
villous. Style red, hairy on the lower part and smooth 
on the upper. Stigmas 5, red, reflexed. 
In var. /3. the upper petals are marked with a much 
larger purple spot, and the lower ones are more dis- 
tinctly striped: in other respects it is very similar to 
var. a. 
In var. y. the flowers are generally double, and 
marked much like var. a. but the lower petals are more 
distinctly striped, the leaves are nearly cordate, and 
unequally angular, with fewer teeth than in the other 
varieties, and the whole plant has a kind of monstrous 
appearance. 
Our drawing was taken from a fine specimen sent 
to us from the collection of the Miss Leekes of Long- 
ford, Shropshire, who inform us that it was raised 
from the seed of the variety of P. cucullatum, known by 
the name of the Prince Regenfs Geranium ; we also re- 
ceived it from Messrs. Browns, nurserymen at Slough, 
with our third variety, who inform us that they also 
raised it from the same variety of P. cucullatum, and 
that it had been mixed with the pollen of V. fulgidum. 
The second variety we received from the collection of 
Robert H. Jenkinson, Esq. ; it had been raised from 
the seed of the first variety, and is the handsomest 
marked of the three: all of them will thrive well in a 
mixture of sandy loam and peat, but they are very apt 
to rot if they chance to get too much wet. Cuttings 
strike root very readily, planted in pots in the same 
kind of soil, and set on a shelf in the greenhouse. 
