ON THE VARIETIES OF ACHBIEKE3. 



. LIX.~REPORT ON THE VARIETIES OF 



ACHIMENES 

 Grown at Chiswick, 1860. 

 By Thosus Moobe, F.L.S., F.R.H.S., Secretary to the Floral Conimittee. 

 The collection consisted of upwards of 70 varieties presented 

 by Messrs. E. G. Henderson, Messrs. Low & Co., Messrs. 

 Parker & Williams, Messrs. Rollisson & Sons, Llr. J. Veitch, 

 .Tun., and M. Van Hotjtte. The plants were examined on the 

 i2nd and 7th of August. 



The genus Achimenes includes species and varieties which are 

 very diverse in character, and this diversity has led to the 

 separation of several of them, by modem writers, under various 

 names, few of which have met with general acceptance. The 

 species referred to Tydcsa, which may be considered as forming 

 an exception to the preceding remark, having differences both of 

 habit and structure sufficient to justify their separation, form a 

 group which is reserved for trial on a future occasion. 



The present report applies chiefly to Achimenes proper, and 

 the varieties enumerated therein admit of being grouped in three 

 distinct sections, namely : 



1. Longiflor^, or those having the habit and foliage, and the 

 large flowers with narrow tube and oblique limb, of A. longifiora. 



2. CocciNE^, or those having the smaller foliage, and diffe- 

 rently-formed open-throated flowers of A. coccinea, 



3. HIBSUT.E, or those having the long funnel-shaped tube, and 

 moderately spreading limb, of A. hirsuta. 



The comparisons as to size are made between those in each 

 class respectively. 



The varieties which the Committee adjudged to be of tirst- 



§ 1. Longifiom .-—A, Ambroise Verschaffelt, Belmontiensis, 

 -Dentoniana, Edmond Boissier, Estelle, longifiora major, Marga- 

 ntse, patens major, Sir Trehern Thomas. 



§ 2. Coccinea :— A. carminata splendens, Dazzle, Dr. Buenzod, 



-A. Georgiana discolor, Parsoni 



