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and are fit for the greenhouse. When the flowering season 

 is over, they may be placed in the stove or very warm part 

 of the greenhouse, and very little water must then be given 

 them. The species speciosa is the best adapted to the green- 

 house, especially if the pots are kept dry in the winter and 

 extra heat be given in spring, but of course the flowers are 

 still finer in the hothouse. 



ACHIMENES. 



Gen. Char. (Didynamia Angiospennia.) Calyx five-cleft ; co- 

 rolla with a very narrow tube, incurved, and five-lobed. 



A beautiful genus of plants, thriving the best in the 

 stove, and being considered properly as stove-plants, like 

 the two last-mentioned genera, but they can be introduced 

 for a time into the greenhouse. A. coccinea has splendid 

 scarlet flowers, it is a native of Jamaica ; rosea is the rosy- 

 flowered ; hirsuta is of the same hue ; picta, called the 

 Painted-leaved Achimenes, has orange-crimson flowers; muU 

 tiflora, lilac, and longiflora, blue-flowers. They are all natives 

 of South America. 



