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Tas. 4743. 
SCHEERIA Mexicana, Seem. 
Mexican Scheerva. 
Nat. Ord. GEsNERIACEXZ.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx tubo cum ovario connato, limbo 5-partito quali. Corolla 
perigyna, infundibuliformis, ¢wbo supra ad basin gibbo, fauce ampliata, limbo 5- 
partito. Stamina corolle tubo inserta, 4, didynama, inclusa, cum rudimento 
quinti; anthere biloculares, sub anthesin cohzerentes. Ovarium basi calyci 
cohzrens, disco annulari cinctum, uniloculare, pluriovulatum. Stylus simplex ; 
stigma infundibuliforme. Capsula unilocularis, bivalvis, valvis medio placentiferis. 
—Herba Mericana, stolonibus perennantibus squamosis, caule erecto foliis calyci- 
busque hirsutis, foliis oppositis petiolatis ovatis acuminatis serratis, floribus axillari- 
bus solitariis, corollis amplis, extus pubescenti-hirsutis, intus puberulis, purpureis vel 
ul oscentibus. Seem. in Bot. Herald, ined. 
Scneeria Mewicana. Seem. l. c. 
Acuimenns Scheerii. Hort. Germ. Variat :— 
a. purpurea, Seem. l. c.; caule nervisque foliorum plus minusve purpurascenti- 
bus; floribus purpureis. Tab. nostr. 4743. 
B. caerulescens Seem+1.c.; caule foliisque viridibus, floribus ceerulescentibus. 
The roots of both varieties here enumerated were presented to 
the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew by Frederick Scheer, Esq., 
who received them in 1850, through J. Potts, Esq., from Chi-_ 
huahua, one of the northern states of Mexico. They began to 
flower with us towards the autumn of 1852, but although they 
attracted considerable attention at that time, we were not aware 
until now that these plants were really so ornamental as they are, 
and that they could be so much improved by cultivation, especially 
as Mr. Potts in his original memorandum terms the blossoms 
“little bell-shaped flowers.” Having now well-grown specimens 
before us, we have no hesitation in predicting that Scheeria Mew- 
icana will become a universal favourite, and that in a few years 
it will be found in every garden. 
The genus Scheeria is named in compliment to Frederick 
Scheer, Esq., to whom our gardens are indebted for the intro- 
OCTOBER Ist, 1853. 
