Stigmas 5, dark purple, reflexed or re volute at the 
points. 
Our drawing of the present handsome plant, was 
made last Summer, from a specimen communicated by 
Mr. W. Smith, at Coombe-wood, where it was raised 
the year before from seed; it is a hybrid production, 
and is intermediate between one of the scarlet flower¬ 
ing and one of the deep purple or crimson sorts ; but 
we cannot speak with any precision as to its real 
parents: its flowers are very elegantly lined and mark¬ 
ed in all directions, which gives it a pretty appearance, 
and also makes it very distinct from those, whose petals 
have a dark spot in the centre. We believe the most 
of the scarlet and red flowered sorts that are without 
any spot, have originally sprung from P. Barringtonii, 
that had been fertilized by the pollen of P .fulgidum or 
P. ignescens, or from some of the offspring of these : the 
present subject appears to be a free grower, and an 
abundant bloomer, and will thrive well in a mixture of 
turfy loam, peat, and sand, the pots to be well drained, 
that the wet may pass off readily: young cuttings, 
planted in pots, in Spring or Summer, and placed on a 
shelf in the Greenhouse, will strike root freely, if 
attended regularly with water when they need it. 
