dark interrupted lines: lower petals of rather a paler 
colour, and not spotted. Filaments 10, connected at the 
base, 7 bearing anthers, which in our specimens were 
all sterile. Style pale flesh-coloured, more or less thinly 
clothed with loose hairs, nearly all its length. Stigmas 5, 
flesh-coloured, spreading, reflexed at the points. 
This very pretty little bushy plant is also of hybrid 
origin, and was raised from seed by Mr. W. Smith, in 
the collection of the late Earl of Liverpool, at Coombe 
Wood; and from a plant communicated by Mr. Smith, 
the present figure was made; it is the produce of one 
of the dwarf varieties of P. Spimi, that had been fer¬ 
tilized with the pollen of one of the bright scarlet sorts, 
perhaps P. ignescens, and is at once distinguished from 
its nearest relatives, by its dwarf bushy growth, and 
nodding flowers, and will be a great acquisition to this 
tribe, from its distinctness, particularly as it takes but 
little room, and continues in bloom all the Summer 
and till late in Autumn, producing a great abundance 
of its bright scarlet flowers. It succeeds best in a light 
soil, composed of an equal quantity of turfy loam, peat, 
and sand, and the pots must be well drained with pot¬ 
sherds, that the wet may pass off readily, as nothing is 
more injurious to it than too much moisture in Winter; 
young cuttings, planted in pots in the same sort of soil, 
and placed on a shelf in the Greenhouse, will soon 
strike root. 
