The vegetable SYSTEM, 
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long, and ufually redifh. The Leaves are of a very delicate ftrong 
green on the upper fide, and white underneath. The Flower is 
very large, and of exceeding beauty. Its colour is an orange fcarlet, 
chequered at the bafe with black and white in very regular Figures. 
It flowers in June, and is eafily encreafed by cuttings. 
This Plant has been known but a few years in Europe j and the 
Gardeners have fuppofed it an Arftotis ; but it has nothing of that 
membranaceous edge to the upper fcales of the Cup, which is the 
great difiinftive charatfter of that Genus, nor can by any means be 
numbered with thofe Plants. 
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