tapering to a long slender base, marked in the centre
with a dark velvetty patch, which extends more or less
broken to the base: lower petals narrower, and paler,
rather darkest in the centre, extending to the base. Filaments
10, connected at the base, 7 bearing perfect anthers,
the anther-bearing ones purple, sterile ones slenderer,
about the same length, white. Style pale purple,
hairy all its length. Stigmas 5, dark purple, fimbriate
on the upper side, the points revolute.
Our drawing of this plant was made last Summer
at the Nursery of Mr. Dennis, where it was raised from
the seed of P. Moreanum that had been fertilized by
P. congestum; it is much nearer related to the latter parent,
than to the former, both in the shape and colour
of the flowers, and also in habit. It is of free growth,
and very hardy, requiring nothing but to be protected
from frost, thriving well in any rich light soil, and producing
an abundance of flowers all the Summer, and
beginning to bloom early in Spring. Young cuttings,
planted in pots, and placed in a sheltered situation, will
strike root readily; it might also tings from the roots. be increased by cut