The present handsome and very curious plant is a
hybrid production, and was raised from seed in the
collection of R. H. Jenkinson, Esq.; its parents are
P. gibbosum and P. lobatum, and it is, as near as possible,
intermediate between them ; its flowers are exquisitely
fragrant, their fragrance beginning about five or six
o’clock in the evening, and continuing till about nine
the next morning; it appears to be a very free grower,
and flowers nearly all the summer and till late in the
autumn; like others of the succulent and tuberous-
rooted tribe, it requires but little water, and the best
soil for it is an equal mixture of turfy loam, peat, and
sand. Cuttings of it strike root freely; it may also be
increased by the little tubers of the roots.
