and from the base to above the centre are numerous 
dark lines, that are more or less branched, and run 
amongst each other: lower petals paler, marked with 
two or three darker lines from the base. Filaments 10, 
connected at the base, 7 bearing anthers. Style purple, 
very hairy nearly all its length. Stigmas 5, dark purple, 
spreading, the points reflexed. 
Our drawing of this splendid flowering plant, was 
made at the Nursery of Mr. Dennis, at Chelsea, last 
Autumn; it was raised from seed the year before, the 
production of P. Palkii, that had been fertilized 
with the pollen of P. ignescens ; its colours are very 
bright and vivid, and its abundance of many-flowered 
umbels of flowers will make it of great value for deco¬ 
rating the Greenhouse ; although its flowers are not so 
large as some others, yet their splendid colour and 
abundance will well make up that deficiency; it is of 
free growth, thriving well in a light sandy soil, the pots 
being well drained at the bottom, that the wet may 
pass off regularly ; young cuttings, planted in pots, and 
placed on a shelf in the Greenhouse, will strike root 
readily. 
