4 or 5 dark lines that are more or less branched: lower 
petals broadly ligulate, spreading, of an orangy red, 
tipped with a tinge of purple. Filaments 10, connected 
at the base, 7 bearing anthers, that are all imperfect. 
Style flesh-coloured, all over hairy. Stigmas 5, bright 
purple, reflexed or revolute at the points. 
The present very distinct sort is of hybrid origin, 
and was raised at the Nursery of Mr. Dennis, Grosvenor 
Row, Chelsea, from a seed of P. Moreanum , that had 
been fertilized by some lighter flowered upright grow¬ 
ing sort; the flowers are not so handsome as those of 
its parent, and the habit of the plant and form of its 
leaves is altogether different; it is of a very upright 
tall growth, with long slender branches, but it produces 
a great number of its neat lively flowers, and continues 
in bloom nearly all the Summer, so that it is well worth 
cultivating for the sake of variety. A light sandy soil 
is most proper for it, or an equal mixture of light turfy 
loam, peat, and sand, will suit it very well, with the pots 
well drained, that the moisture may pass off readily, 
and giving it but little water in Winter. Young cuttings, 
planted in pots in the same sort of soil, and placed on a 
shelf in the Greenhouse, will strike root readily. 
