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AcHIMENES PICTA. PAINTED ACHIMENES. 



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 Class and Order. 



DlDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



( Nat. Ord. — Gesneriace/e. ) 



Generic Character. 



Calycis tubus ovario adnatus; limbus 5-partitus lobis 

 lanceolatis. Corolla tubuloso-infimdibuliformis basi hinc 

 sa3pe gibba, limbo piano 5-fido, lobis subaequalibus sub- 

 rotuudis. Stamina 4 didynama, antheris non cohseren- 

 tibus. Rudimentum stam. quinti corollee basi inferne im- 

 positum. Nectarium glandulosum annulare tenue. Stylus 

 in stigma vix incrassatum obliquum aut subbilobum abe- 

 uns. Capsula semibilocularis bivalvis., placentis parieta- 

 libus subsessilibus. — Herbae Americana, erectce villosa. Folia 

 opposita aut terna verticillata petiolata dentata. Pedicelii 

 I -Jlori axillares. D C. 



Specific Name and Character. 



Achimenes* picta ; tota hirsuta, foliis oppositis ternisqiie 

 cordato -oralis grosse serratis velutino-hirsutis ele- 

 gantissime albopictis, pedunculis solitariis vel binis 

 axillaribus folio longioribus unifloris, calycis tubo 

 turbinato laciniis ovatis pateniibus, corolla? tubo 

 inftindibulifbrmi limbi lobis rotundatis patentibus 

 subaequalibus 3 inferioribus ininoribus, ovario hirsute) 

 vix calyce adnato, glandnlis hypogynis 5. 



Achimenes picta. Bentham MSS. 



* One 



* A classical friend has suggested that the word should probably be 

 written Achimenes, a king of Persia, " bellorum victor, ut interpret 

 Amm.," according to Lyttleton, and hence probably applied to the 

 original Achimenes coccinea, on account of the scarlet colour of the flowers. 

 Brown, however, the author of the name, writes it Achimenes. 



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