Large flowered cultivar with red-violet flowers turning bluer with age. This name appears in Spingarn's 1935 lists but the form now seems lost to cultivation. If you know otherwise, or have further details, please get in touch.

Group:	Early large-flowered group
Pruning:	Light prune (Group 2)
Raised by:	Simon-Louis
Country of origin:	France
Date raised:	1868
Other name(s):	None known
Further detail:  Tepals: 6-8 Database entry: 1815