ACHIMENES PICTA, 
Gesneriaceæ $ Gesneriæ. 一 Didynamia-Angiospermia. 
CHARACT. GENER. — (Vide ut supra, fo 13.) | binis, axillaribus, folio longioribus, uni-floris; 
calycis tubo turbinato, laciniis ovatis patentibus. 
cordato-ovatis, grosse serratis, velutino-hirsutis, | minoribus; ovario hirsuto calycem viz adnato; 
elegantissime albo pictis ; pedunculis solitariis v. | glandulis quinque hypogynis Hoox. 1. infra c. 
Texte du Botanical Magazine de M. Hooker. 
ACHIMENES (1) PICTA. 
PAINTED ACHIMENES. 
NATUR. FAMILI. . . 
CLASSIS ET ORDER . vide folio 79. 
CHARACT. GENER. . 
CHARACT. SPECIEI. 
One of the splendid plants introduced by the Horticultural Society of London from Mexico, and 
now , from its dispersion by that useful body, among the greatest ornaments of our stoves during the 
autumnal and early winter months. Nothing can exceed the beauty of the foliage, whether we consider 
tieillate, petiolate, ovato-cordate, serrate, of a rich velvety green, mottled and retieulated wi 
i r pale green, always whitest in the middle. Peduncles one or two from the axils of the 
upper leaves, and much longer than they, single-flowered. Flowers drooping, moderately large. 
Calyx almost entirely free , the tube obconical, or turbinate; the segments oblong-ovate, spreading. 
Corolla full yellow, with rich red above, within streaked and dotted with red : the tube funnel-sha- 
ped, gibbous above : the limb spreading, of five nearly equal lobes : the two upper, however, 
the smallest. Ovary ovate, hairy, with five oblong, fleshy glands at the base. Style thick, and 
(as well as the stamens) included : Stigma bifid. 
Persia, « bellorum victor, 
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(1) A classical friend has suggested that the word should probably be written ACHÆMENES, à king of we: 
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ut interpret Amm., » according to Lyrrietox, and hence probably applied to the original ۸۳۱۱۷۶۲۵ coccinea, on accoun 
the scarlet colour of the flowers. Brown, however, the author of the name, writes it ۰ 
