Petals 5, ligulate, spreading; the two upper ones largest,
all of a greenish white, with a bright red patch in
the centre. Filaments 10, united at the base, one of
them a large flat spatula-shaped one, 6 generally bearing
anthers, that are mostly sterile. Style very short.
Stigmas 5, purple, the points reflexed.
The present plant is a hybrid production, and is
without doubt intermediate between P . triste and P . gib-
bosum, as that would produce precisely the sort of colour,
and also the habit of the present subject; whereas
had P. lobatum been one of its parents, as was supposed,
it would have been P . glauciifolium, or very nearly related
to it. It was first raised from seed in the collection
of It. H. Jenkinson, Esq. and is well worth cultivating
for its singularity, and the number of flowers
that it produces, particularly as it is well adapted for
planting out in the open border in Spring in a light
sandy soil, and the roots to be taken up as soon as the
frost commences in Autumn, when they are to be kept
in a box or pot of dry earth or sand, and out of the
reach of frost until the following Spring, to be planted
in the borders again in Spring, as soon as the weather
permits; they will then continue to produce abundance
of flowers all the Summer, and will remain in bloom
as long as the weather continues mild in Autumn. We
had several different sorts growing in our garden last
Summer, that were treated in the above manner, and
as soon as one stem of flowers was over, others were
produced: the present, as well as most others of the
tuberous-rooted sorts, may be increased by the tubers
fromO tuhre idr rraowoitns.g was made from plants at the Nursery
of Mr. Colvill, in the King’s-road, Chelsea, last Summer.