bractes, clothed with short hairs. Calyx 5-cleft, clothed 
with a short woolly pubescence: segments lanceolate, 
acute, keeled: upper and lower ones broadest, erect, 
the others slightly reflexed at the points. Nectariferous 
tube variable in length, generally about the length of 
the calyx, but sometimes longer, at other times shorter, 
much flattened on both sides, and gibbous at the base. 
Petals 5; the two upper ones broadly obovate, rounded 
at the end, a little undulate, slightly crenulate, unequal 
sided, of a light red, or salmon-coloured, with a dark 
velvetty patch in the centre, below which are two white 
veins to the base, from thence branch numerous dark 
lines, that extend a great way over the petals: lower 
petals narrower, obovate, of rather a lighter colour, two- 
veined from the base, rather uneven at the points. Fi¬ 
laments 10, united at the base, 7 bearing anthers. Style 
pale purple, smooth throughout, or only with a hair or 
two at the base. Stigmas 5, dark purple, fimbriate on 
the upper side, their points re volute. 
Our drawing of this pretty sort was made last Sum¬ 
mer, from a plant in the collection of R. H. Jenkinson, 
Esq., where it was raised from seed; it is of hybrid 
origin; the plant that produced the seed was P. varii- 
folium; it had been fertilized by one of the smoother¬ 
leaved and larger-flowering sorts, but the exact kind is 
not at present known; being a handsome and free 
grower, and an abundant bloomer, makes it a very de¬ 
sirable plant, thriving well in a rich, light, sandy soil ; 
or a mixture of turfy loam, peat, and fine sand, will suit it 
very well, and it will continue to flower all the Summer 
and till late in Autumn, if the overblown flower-stalks 
are kept cut off regularly, young wood will then be con¬ 
stantly pushed forth, bearing other flowers; the greater 
part of the different sorts may be made to continue a 
great length of time in flower by that means ; young 
cuttings, planted in pots, and placed on a shelf in the 
Greenhouse, will soon strike root. 
