ACHIMENES JAUREGUIA. 



THIS lovely family is universally admired, and it affords us much 

 pleasure to have the opportunity of figuring in our first Xumber of 

 a new volume, the very charming addition we now do. We have been 

 enabled to do so by the liindiiess of our respected correspondent, Mr. 

 Friedrich Haage, jun., florist and seedsman, of Erfurt in Prussia; to 

 whom, for the favour, we feel much indebted. 



The following particulars relative to this valuable acquisition have 

 been communicated by ]\Ir. Haas^e : — 



As with indigenous blue or violet-flowering plants, and some tropical 

 sorts, the wiiite colour is sometimes found amongst the wild growing 

 ones ; for instance, the Campanula Gentiana, the Salvia pratensis 

 and patens, &c., so that indefatigable traveller, Mr. Warszcewicz, found 

 in the year 1847 upon an exhausted volcano, near Guatemala, the 

 white-coloured, long-blossomed Achimenes above mentioned, in a single 

 specimen amongst hundreds of others, though all of the lilac or red- 

 flowering species. The delight of the collector at this splendid dis- 

 covery is easily to be imagined. He cautiously dug the plant up, and 

 conveying it to Guateujala, he planted it in the garden of the Prussian 

 Consul, Mr. Klee. A lady of that place took a drawing of the flower, 

 which Mr. Warszcewicz sent me, with the remark that he had named 

 this novelty after the lady, Jauiegiiia, and that with the first oppor- 

 tunity he wouhi send me some tubers of it. On the 2nd of January, 

 1848, I received such a tuber fastened by means of a wafer to the 

 letter in which it was enclosed ; but the tuber, not having been better 

 protected, was quite dried »ip, and all attempts at re-animation proved 

 without success. 



It was only in the present year (1849) towards the middle of August, 

 after a voyage of seven months and a half, that I received, together 

 with a number of Oicliideaj, packed up in sand in a little tin-box, .all 



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