more or less suffused with purple, particularly the upper 
ones, which are broadest, and a little unequal-sided at 
the base, with a bright velvetty purple patch in the 
centre, below which is a white mark to the base, and 
several short purple stripes: lower petals lighter, and 
strongly 4-veined underneath. Filaments 10, connected 
at the base, 7 bearing anthers: sterile ones without an¬ 
thers, and more or less elongated. Style pale flesh-co¬ 
lour, hairy at the base, and smooth upwards. Stigmas 5, 
pale purple, reflexed at the points. 
This is also a hybrid production, and was raised from 
seed in the collection of L. Weltje, Esq. where our draw¬ 
ing was made last month; it is also intermediate be¬ 
tween two tribes, with a little mixture of the third, but 
what were its real parents we have not ascertained; it 
appears to be of free growth and an abundant bloomer, 
and the purple blush, suffused over its petals, give it a 
very elegant appearance; another great singularity be¬ 
longing to it, is the great length of its sterile filaments, 
those are generally as long or longer than the anther 
bearing ones, a circumstance which we have only ob¬ 
served in two or three other sorts. A rich light soil is 
the best to grow it in, giving it a good supply of water 
when in a thriving state; young cuttings, planted in 
pots, and placed in a sheltered situation, will strike root 
without difficulty. 
