merits 10, connected at the base into a tube, 5 bearing anthers
; those are unequal in length. Style a little longer than
the stamens, purple. Stigmas 5, purple, reflexed.
Our drawing of this elegant little plant was made last
Autumn, at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, where it was raised
the year before, from a seed of H. bicolor, that had been
fertilized by the pollen of H. atra; it is altogether different
from any other with which we are acquainted, and its abundance
of blossoms, which are produced all the Summer,
makes it very desirable. Like its congeners, it succeeds well
in a mixture of light turfy loam, peat, and sand; and after
it has done flowering, and its leaves are beginning to decay,
it requires no more water until it shows an inclination to
grow again, which it generally does about Christmas; it
must then be shifted into fresh mould, and as it grows, must
be supplied regularly with water; the best method of increasing
it is by the little tubers of its roots.
