Tab. 4144 



ACHIMENES hirsuta. 

 Hairy Ackimenes. 



Nat. Ord. Gesneriace^e. — Didynamia Angiospermia. 

 ACHIMENES. ( Vide supra Tab. 4126.) 



Achimenes hirsuta; caulibus hirsutis paniculatis bulbilliferis, foliis cor- 

 datis serratis hirsutis, pedunculis solitariis foliis sequalibus, corollse 

 limbo piano laciniis rotundatis serrulatis. Lindl. 



Achimenes hirsuta. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843. Misc. n. 103. Tab. 55. 



This is not so gay in its flowers as the Achimenes picta 

 (Tab. 4126), nor are the leaves by any means so beautiful; 

 but there is a richness of colour in the large corollas, and a 

 peculiar bloom, very difficult to be imitated by art, which 

 render it worthy a place in every stove. Its nearest affin- 

 ity, however, is, as Dr. Lindley, its first describer, observes, 

 with A.pedunculata (Tab. 4077), " but the flowers are larger, 

 the border is much more flat, and the colour is a deep, rich 

 rose, instead of the clear orange of A. pedunculata." Our 

 specimen has even deeper colored blossoms (partaking of a pur- 

 plish blush, or bloom) than that figured in the Bot. Register: 

 still, it must be acknowledged that the two species have a very 

 close affinity. It is, like the A. pedunculata, a native of 

 Guatemala, and was " raised from among a mass of Guatemala 

 Orchidaceae bought at one of Mr. Skinner's sales." It loves 

 neat, and flourishes in the stoves with the same treatment as 

 other species of this lovely Genus. 



Descr. Stem herbaceous, erect, branched, two to three 

 reet high, terete, hairy, repeatedly and trichotomously divided, 

 with opposite, shortly petiolate, ovato- cordate, acuminate, 

 serrated, hairy leaves at the ramifications. Upper branches, 

 J ut especially the peduncles, bearing in the axils of small 

 wacteas, clusters of little bulbilli, by which the species may be 

 •' 'undaiitly increased, as well as by the roots. The peduncles 

 are elongated, much longer than the leaves, terminal and 



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