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ACHIMENES longiflora. 



Long-flowered A chimenes. 



DIDYNAMIA ANQIOSPERMIA 



Nat. ord. GesneracejE. 



ACHIMENES. Botanical Register, 1841, /. 65. 



longifio 



pedicellis 



lanceolatis erectis corollse tubo 4-pl5 brevioribus, corollse limbo amplo 

 patente. Benth. PL Hartw. p. 89. no. 604. 

 A. longiflora. DeCand. Prodr, 7. 536. Fortune in Hort. Tram. vol. 2. new 



series, p. 508. /. 14. 



No individual, whether potentate or commoner, no go- 

 vernment, no association of individuals in any country, ever 

 embellished their native land in the same number of years, 

 with such a multitude of rare and beautiful plants as the 

 Horticultural Society of London has brought into England, 

 either through their correspondents, or by the means of their 

 collectors ; among whom the names of Forbes, Parkes, Doug- 

 las, and Hartweg stand pre-eminent. The annuals, the 

 perennials, the hardy deciduous shrubs, the evergreens, the 

 creeping plants, the greenhouse and stove plants now in culti- 

 vation, have principally sprung from the rich mine in the 

 Society's Garden ; and now, after twenty years importation 

 of novelties, here is one which yields to nothing except the 

 Wistaria (Glycine) sinensis. More beautiful than the gayest 

 of our stove herbaceous plants, as easy to cultivate as the 

 commonest of perennials, more prodigal of flowers than the 

 finest of the Gloxinias, ever blooming, except during the few 

 months when it sinks into its winter's rest, this Achimenes 



longiflora is an invaluable gift by the Society to every one 



who has a warm greenhouse. The following excellent account 

 of it by Mr. Fortune, published in the Transactions of the 



April, 1842. 



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