colour, marked from the base with short dark lines, more 
or less branched: lower ones oblong or ligulate, of a light¬ 
er colour. Filaments 10, connected at the base, 7 bearing 
anthers. Style purple, hairy at the base and smooth up¬ 
wards. Stigmas 5, purple, reflexed. 
This pretty plant is also of hybrid origin, and was first 
raised from seed by Mr. W. Smith, in the collection of the 
Earl of Liverpool; from its appearance we should suspect 
one of its parents to be P. amplissimum, the P. Foremani 
of the Gardens, and one of the dark red sorts, as that would 
produce the present colour and habit of the plant. It is of 
free growth, and continues to bloom all the Summer and till 
late in Autumn, thriving well in a rich light soil, and requi¬ 
ring nothing but a common Greenhouse or good light room 
to preserve it through the Winter; young cuttings, planted 
in pots, and placed in a shady situation, will soon strike root. 
Our drawing was made from a plant at the Nursery of 
Mr. Colvill, in August last. 
