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Horticultural Society, gives t full information concerning its 

 history and treatment. 



" Mr. Hartweg found it growing wild in the ravines of 

 Guatemala, and sent its roots home last spring along with 

 * several other new Gesneraceous and Orchidaceous plants. 

 The roots arrived in very good order, owing to their having 

 heen packed in dry loam, and sent home at that period of 

 the year when the plant is naturally in a resting state. In 

 packing and sending home plants of this kind, much of the 

 success depends upon having them gathered and transmitted 

 at the proper season. In this case the roots being gathered 

 after the growing season was past, and at the same time sur- 

 rounded with dry loam, were as nearly as possible in natural 

 circumstances, during the voyage to England, were only 

 enjoying that period of rest which they would have had in 

 their native country, and, as the event proved, were as ready 

 to start into leaf, and to grow with vigour after their arrival 

 as if thev had remained in Guatemala. 



" The stems of Achimenes longiflora are of two kinds, 

 some creeping along the ground and amongst the soil, and 

 forming fibrous roots and numerous imbricated buds resem- 

 bling scaly bulbs ; others growing in an upright position 

 from a foot to two feet in height, branching and covered with 

 short spreading hairs. The leaves are hairy, generally oppo- 

 site and in pairs, but on young shoots are frequently in whorls 

 of three and sometimes alternate ; they are oblong, pointed, 

 and serrated, green above, but tinged with red on the under 

 side when fully grown. The flowers grow singly from the 

 axils of the leaves ; the peduncles are about half an inch in 

 length ; the lobes of the calyx are green, oblong, pointed, 

 and persistent. The tube of the corolla is about two inches 

 long and the border nearly two inches and a half in diameter, 

 5-lobed and nearly round, having much the outline of a good 

 Heartsease. The tube is of a dark cream colour, the border 

 purple or deep blue changing into lilae. The style and 

 stamens are about the length of the tube, but the latter are 

 apparently much shorter, owing to their being spirally curved 

 at their base. 



" It proves to be a plant of the easiest cultivation, flower- 

 ing in August and continuing covered with large violet flowers 







