centre, edged round the upper side with a quicksilvery 
appearance, below the spot are numerous dark lines, 
more or less branched, between which down the centre 
they are marked with white: lower petals of a lighter 
colour, veined with rather darker veins. Filaments 10, 
connected at the base, 7 bearing perfect anthers: pollen 
of a dark orange colour. Style bright red, hairy more 
than half its length. The upper part smooth. Stigmas 
5, purple, reflexed or revolute at the points. 
The present curious flowering plant is of hybrid 
origin, and was raised from seed at the Nursery of 
Mrs. More, of the King’s-road, Chelsea, where our 
drawing was made this Spring. It appears to be inter¬ 
mediate between one of the P. macranthon tribe and 
one of the dark red sorts, as the habit and foliage par¬ 
take chiefly of the former, with the flowers of the latter, 
the singular quicksilvery mark round the dark spot of 
the upper petals, give the flowers a striking and singu¬ 
lar appearance ; the plant is of free growth, an abun¬ 
dant bloomer, and thrives well in any rich light soil; 
young cuttings, planted in pots in the same sort of soil, 
and placed on a shelf in the Greenhouse, will soon 
strike root. 
We are sorry to see that Mrs. More has sustained a 
very severe loss by the fire, from the manufactory ad¬ 
joining, which was lately consumed; many of her fine 
new seedlings that had not yet flowered were destroyed, 
besides numerous other plants in the open ground, 
which were scorched up and spoiled, as well as the 
whole of her frames and what they contained; we hope 
the public will be liberal enough to subscribe towards 
repairing her loss. 
