ones obovate, round at the ends and tapering to the 
base, very unequal-sided, marked with a smallish bright 
red spot in the centre, below which are many bright 
purple stripes, that are slightly branched : lower petals 
ligulate, strongly 3 or 4-nerved from the base. Filaments 
10, connected at the base, 7 bearing anthers, that are 
generally sterile. Style bright purple, thinly hairy nearly 
all its length. Stigmas 5, very long, bright purple, re¬ 
volute at the points. 
This pretty plant is also of hybrid origin, and was 
raised from seed at the Nursery of Mrs. More, King’s 
Road, Chelsea; it belongs to the same division of the 
tribe as P. macranthon , and P. amplissimum ; and others 
whose origin was at first between P. grandiflorum , and 
some of the other sorts, but it is now impossible to trace 
many of them to their original source, though there is 
generally some sort of appearance in habit by which 
one at least of their original parents may be traced : the 
present is a free-growing bushy sort, and produces an 
abundance of flowers all the Summer, and till late in 
Autumn, and will succeed well in a common green¬ 
house, or the window of a light airy room, through the 
Winter, succeeding well in any light rich soil, or a mix¬ 
ture of fresh loam and peat will suit it very well; and 
being a free rooting plant, and fast grower, it will require 
a considerable quantity of water. Young cuttings, plant¬ 
ed in pots„and placed in a sheltered situation, any time 
in Spring or Summer, will root readily. 
