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NEW PLANTS, ETC., 



From a foot to a foot and a half higli, stems purplish, nearly 

 smooth, with a few scattered spreading hairs near the upper end ; 

 leaves about four inches long ; flowers about half an incli long, 

 with a yellowish tube, and a white flat oblique limb with a short 

 line of purple dots along the middle of each lobe, except the frontal 

 one, and many more within the tube. Generally three flowers 

 appear together, of which the central ones open first and the side 

 ones some time afterwards. 



It requires the same kind of treatment as the other sorts of 

 Achimenes. Being a neat, free-blooming plant, it is worth cul- 

 tivation on account of its white blossoms, an unusual colour in 

 the genus. 



August 14, 1848. 



37. Achimenes atrosanguinea.* 



Presented by Messrs. 



Knight and Perry, 



luider the above 



name. 



This is a beautifnl species, 



with the habit of A. Skinneri, 



but with slender flowers nearly 



an inch and a half long, with 



a yellow tube spotted with dull 



purple, and a vivid scarlet 



limb as bright as that of Mi- 



mulus cardinalis. 



It is perfectly distinct fiom 

 all hitiierto described, and 

 ranks among: the handsomest. 



38. Rosa rugosa. TJumb., Fl. Jap.,T^.2\Z; Lindl., Monogr. 

 Ros. p. 5, t. 19. (Var. plena purpurea.) 



Sent from China by Mr. Fortune : as a garden variety 

 from Shanghae. 



This plant has very much the appearance of R. Kamtchatica, 

 but its leaves are more sliining on the upper surface, and on the 

 under they are closely covered with very pale whitish scentless 

 glands. 



* A. atrosanguinea; caule pubescente, foliis pilosis oblongis subcordatis 

 grossc serratis oppositis insequalibus, pedunculis unifloris petiolo longioribus, 

 coi'ollic tubo cyliudracco piloso basi saccato limbo parvo patulo laciuiis sub- 

 rotuudis iutegris euiurgiuatis supremis miuoribus. — J. L. 



