ears, and marked from thence to the base with several
irregular purple spots; lower petals shorter and broader,
concave, connivent. Filaments 10, united into a tube,
five bearing anthers, which are enclosed in the lower
petals; barren filaments erect and subulate. Pollen
of a light orange-colour. Style pale, hairy at the base
and smooth upwards. Stigmas 5, reflexed.
At the time that we published this plant, we were
not aware that it had been already published by Wend-
land under a different name; and as his name has a
right of priority, we readily adopt it. Our drawing
was taken at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, from a plant
that had been imported from the Cape. We have no
doubt of its being a real species, as we have seen a
great many plants of it in different collections without
the slightest variation in them. The figure in the Botanical
Magazine above quoted certainly belongs to
the present species, and not to H. corydaliflora. At
the time we published th at. plant, we were not sufficiently
acquainted with the differences between them ;
but are now satisfied of their being decidedly distinct.
The flowers in Mr. Andrews’s figure certainly belong
to this species, and the foliage as certainly to H. corydaliflora:
his Geranium moschatum is, we have no
doubt, intended for our P. bellulum; but we believe
very few would guess at it from his figure: his G. osca-
lioide we are not sufficiently acquainted with, but believe
it to be in Mr. Colvill’s collection ; it is very different
from G. oxaloides of Cavanilles: his G. tenellum,
flavum, we suspect to be Dimacria astragalifolia wanting
its pinnated leaves; we often see it in that state:
his three varieties of G. astragalifolium are varieties of
D. pinnata, and certainly have nothing to do with
D. astragalifolia.
The present plant requires the same treatment as
the other tuberous-rooted species, and is one of the
hardiest of them. It is readily increased by the little
tubers from the root, or by seeds.