Petals 5, ligulate, spreading; the two upper ones lar¬ 
gest, all of a greenish white, with a bright red patch in 
the centre. Filaments 10, united at the base, one of 
them a large flat spatula-shaped one, 6 generally bear¬ 
ing anthers, that are mostly sterile. Style very short. 
Stigmas 5, purple, the points reflexed. 
The present plant is a hybrid production, and is 
without doubt intermediate between P. triste and V.gib- 
bosum , as that would produce precisely the sort of co¬ 
lour, and also the habit of the present subject; whereas 
had P. lobatum been one of its parents, as was supposed, 
it would have been P. glauciifolium, or very nearly re¬ 
lated to it. It was first raised from seed in the collec¬ 
tion of R. H. Jenkinson, Esq. and is well worth culti¬ 
vating for its singularity, and the number of flowers 
that it produces, particularly as it is well adapted for 
planting out in the open border in Spring in a light 
sandy soil, and the roots to be taken up as soon as the 
frost commences in Autumn, when they are to be kept 
in a box or pot of dry earth or sand, and out of the 
reach of frost until the following Spring, to be planted 
in the borders again in Spring, as soon as the weather 
permits; they will then continue to produce abundance 
of flowers all the Summer, and will remain in bloom 
as long as the weather continues mild in Autumn. We 
had several different sorts growing in our garden last 
Summer, that were treated in the above manner, and 
as soon as one stem of flowers was over, others were 
produced: the present, as well as most others of the 
tuberous-rooted sorts, may be increased by the tubers 
from their roots. 
Our drawing was made from plants at the Nursery 
of Mr. Colvill, in the King’s-road, Chelsea, last Sum¬ 
mer. 
