are several short purple lines and marks, strongly 2-nerved 
at the back, the nerves forked, or slightly branched; lower 
petals ligulate, spreading, of a lighter colour, also strongly 
2-nerved at the back. Filaments 10, united at the base, 7 
bearing anthers, which were all imperfect in our specimens. 
Style very hairy. Stigmas purple, revolute. 
This pretty plant is of hybrid origin, and is intermediate 
between P. graveolens and P. ignescens, the habit of the 
plant, and the number and form of the flowers, being most 
like the former parent; the leaves are nearly intermediate, 
and the colour of the flowers is more like the latter; it is a 
very neat growing little plant, and produces an abundance of 
flowers; and being so distinct from most others, makes it 
the more desirable; it thrives best in a light sandy soil, or a 
mixture of light turfy loam, peat, and sand, will suit it very 
well. Young cuttings, planted in pots in the same sort of 
soil, and placed on a shelf in the Greenhouse, will soon strike 
root. 
Our drawing was made from a plant sent to us from the 
Nursery of Mr. Russell, at Battersea, in August last. 
