tinged with dark brown, and marked from the base with
several dark lines that are slightly branched; lower ones
also marked with 2 dark lines near the base, and between
them tinged with dark brown. Filaments 10, united at
the base, 7 bearing anthers, which are always fertile: no
spatulate one, as m ight be expected from its habit. Pollen
pale yellow. Style pale flesh-colour, hairy. Stigmas 5,
pale red, reflexed.
A very curious hybrid production, raised at the Nursery
o f Mr. Colvill, in 1822, from a seed of V.fulgidum that
had been fertilized by the pollen o f P. sanguineum, and it
is as near as possible intermediate between its two parents;
its flowers are not to be surpassed in brilliancy o f colour,
by any with which we are acquainted; and by its singularity
and decided difference from all others, makes it truly
desirable. It requires precisely the same kind o f management,
as others o f the same tribe; a mixture o f light turfy
loam, peat, and sand, suit it very w e ll; and cuttings taken
off when in a free growing state, will soon strike root, if
planted in pots in the same kind of soil, and placed on a
shelf in the green-house, giving them no water for the first
2 or 3 days, till the cut is dried up, or they will be apt to
rot. It may also be increased from the little tubers o f its
roots.