base, 7 bearing anthers, which we believe are always imperfect.
Style pale, thickly clothed with bristly hairs. Stigmas 5, purple, revolute, and fimbriate on the upper
side.
This very pretty little plant is of hybrid origin, having
been produced between P. ignescens and one of the small
growing sorts; it was raised from seed the year before last,
in the garden containing the superb collection of R. H.
Jenkinson, Esq. where our drawing was made in June
last; it is of free growth, and makes a compact little bush,
flowering continually all the Summer; the flowers are also
very brilliant, and the whole plant is sometimes covered
with them. It succeeds well in a light sandy soil, or a
mixture of light turfy loam, peat, and sand, will suit it
very well. Cuttings strike root readily, if planted in pots
in the same sort of soil, and placed on a shelf in the
Greenhouse.
