and is now tolerably well known in our stoves, from the 

 liberality with which it has been distributed by the Society. 

 The specimen, from which our figure is taken, flowered 

 in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, throughout the 

 summer and autumn of 1843. The stems and foliage after- 

 wards die down, and the scaly roots are left dry and dor- 

 mant, to be re-potted in the following spring. 



Descr. Stems a foot and a half to two feet and more 

 high, erect, simple, rounded, hairy, as is, more or less, every 

 part of the plant, even the corolla. Leaves opposite, 

 petiolate, ovate, acute, serrated, penninerved. Peduncles 

 solitary, axillary, opposite, two to three-flowered, with 

 often a small pair of leaves beneath the lowest flowers, and 

 two or three lanceolate bracteas. Flowers large, handsome, 

 drooping, more like that of some Gesneri a than of Achimenes. 

 Calyx with the short ovate, glandularly-hairy tube, adnate 

 with the ovary; the five ovate spreading segments free. 

 Corolla nearly two inches long ; of a fine and bright red, yel- 

 low beneath ; the limb in five spreading, rounded segments, 

 richly spotted with dark red ; the tube gradually dilated 

 upwards. Stamens as in the Genus. Style nearly as long 

 as the tube. Stigma bilamellate. 



