24. Achimenes Ghiesbkeghtii of the Gardens. 



Presented to the Society by Mr. Andrew Henderson, of the 

 Wellington Nursery, St. John's Wood Road, in 1849. 



Stems erect, deep purple brown, with a few scattered hairs. 

 Leaves opposite, stalked, oblong-lanceolate, rugose, convex, 

 coarsely serrated, not unlike those of the larger stinging-nettle. 

 Flowers solitary, axillary, with a slender hairy peduncle, twice 

 as long as the leafstalks. Calyx smooth, equally 5-parted. 



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