more or less suffused with purple, particularly the upper
ones, which are broadest, and a little unequal-sided at
the base, with a bright velvetty purple patch in the
centre, below which is a white mark to the base, and
several short purple stripes: lower petals lighter, and
strongly 4-veined underneath. Filaments 10, connected
at the base, 7 bearing anthers: sterile ones without anthers,
and more or less elongated. Style pale flesh-colour,
hairy at the base, and smooth upwards. Stigmas 5,
pale purple, reflexed at the points.
This is also a hybrid production, and was raised from
seed in the collection of L. Weltje, Esq. where our drawing
was made last month; it is also intermediate between
two tribes, with a little mixture of the third, but
what were its real parents we have not ascertained; it
appears to be of free growth and an abundant bloomer,
and the purple blush, suffused over its petals, give it a
very elegant appearance; another great singularity belonging
to it, is the great length of its sterile filaments,
those are generally as long or longer than the anther
bearing ones, a circumstance which we have only observed
in two or three other sorts. A rich light soil is
the best to grow it in, giving it a good supply of water
when in a thriving state; young cuttings, planted in
pots, and placed in a sheltered situation, will strike root
without difficulty.