colour, marked from the base with short dark lines, more
or less branched: lower ones oblong or ligulate, of a lighter
colour. Filaments 10, connected at the base, 7 bearing
anthers. Style purple, hairy at the base and smooth upwards.
Stigmas 5, purple, reflexed.
This pretty plant is also of hybrid origin, and was first
raised from seed by Mr. W. Smith, in the collection of the
Earl of Liverpool; from its appearance we should suspect
one of its parents to be P. amplissimum, the P. Foremani
of the Gardens, and one of the dark red sorts, as that would
produce the present colour and habit of the plant. It is of
free growth, and continues to bloom all the Summer and till
late in Autumn, thriving well in a rich light soil, and requiring
nothing but a common Greenhouse or good light room
to preserve it through the Winter; young cuttings, planted
in pots, and placed in a shady situation, will soon strike root.
Our drawing was made from a plant at the Nursery of
Mr. Colvill, in August last.
