widely obovate, oblique, reflexed, back of a pale rose
colour, front much lighter, with 2 bright purple lines
from the base that are slightly branched; lower petals
with long ungues, broadly spatulate at the point and
oblique, white or pale blush. Filaments 10, united at
the base, or the lower ones sometimes divided, 7 fertile
ones declining, bent in the middle, their points ascending,
sterile ones nearly equal, Germen villous. Sti/le very longss, hboertn t anlidk e stuhbeu lfaitlea.
ments, hairy on the lower part and smooth on the upper.
Stigmas 5, purple, reflexed.
In our account of J. quinata, supra fol. 70, we had
proposed this as a distinct, genus-, under the name of
Charisma\ but we find the principal character on which
our generic distinction was fixed to be variable in diflfoewreenrt
ffilloawmeernst so nd ivthidee ds atmo et hpe labnats,e ,s oamnde ohtahveirnsg cothne
snpeecctieeds ionfto Jae ntkuinbseo; nwiae: tthheer.e sfoperec iecso, naslisdoe,r wit haic hg owode
enumerated in our account of P. coriandrifolium, supra
fol. 34, will also rank very well as a different section of
the same genus.
Our drawing was taken this summer at the extensive
collection of Robert H. Jenkinson, Esq. The va-
riegatetj. variety at the side of the other, differs only in
the variegation of its leaves, which, when grown luxuriantly,
it loses altogether; the best method to preserve
iotus rv oarpiiengioatni oint iiss htaon dgsroowm eist t iinn vitesr yg rseaennd syt apteea: t,t hbeu bt eisnt
ssaomil efo ars i tr eisc aonm emqeunadl epdo rftoior nt hoef lootahmer, pseuactc, ualnedn ts asnpde,c itehse,
and to be grown in a dry airy situation. Cuttings root
readily, planted in the same kind of soil, and placed
on a shelf in the greenhouse.