striped with numerous dark velvetty purple branching lines, 
and strongly veined at the back: lower petals of a red lilac, 
strongly 4-veined, the veins branched. Filaments 10, as¬ 
cending, connected at the base, 7 bearing anthers: pollen 
orange-coloured. Style purple, hairy nearly all its length. 
Stigmas 5, dark purple, spreading, the points reflexed or 
revolute. 
This fine plant is of hybrid origin, and was raised from 
seed at the Nursery of Mrs. More, in the King’s-road, 
where our drawing was made in May last; it very fre¬ 
quently bears four and five lower petals to its flowers, so 
that it has a tendency to become double; we cannot ascer¬ 
tain what were its parents, but there is no doubt but it came 
from the tribe to which P. macranthon belongs, and is 
nearly related to it, in all but the colour of its flowers; it is 
of very strong growth, and of easy culture, requiring only 
to be protected from frost, and thriving well in a rich light 
soil; young cuttings root freely, planted in pots, and placed 
on a shelf in the Greenhouse, or in any sheltered shady 
situation. 
