GESNEKACEAE. 



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in the way of Streptocarpus ; a solitary leaf, a short panicle of 

 small purple flowers, a perennial stove plant, rare in cultivation. 

 Achimenes. — A large genus of beautiful plants, all from tropical 

 America. 

 atrosangiiinea = foliosa. 

 Candida = Dicyrta Candida. 



COCCinea (fig-" Bot. Mag." 374). — Peru, Jamaica. Flowers axillary, 

 small, crimson ; a very pretty pot plant, often sent out under 

 the name of ' Dazzler.' 



Georgeana = longiflora. 



grandiflora (fig. " Bot. Reg." 1845, 11). — Mexico. Corolla tube 

 saccate and spurred at the base ; flowers axillary, solitary, 

 crimson, smaller than longiflora ; pedicel leafy. See also " Rev. 

 ■ Hort." ser. ii., ii. 372 ; "El. des Serres," i. 3, 245 (as patens). 



heterophylla (fig. "Bot. Mag." 4871). — Mexico; peduncles 

 axillary, longer than the petioles, 1 -flowered ; flowers medium 

 size, scarlet, tube cylindric, saccate at the base. 



foliosa (fig. " Ann. Soc. Gand."ii. [1846], 403, t. 91).— Guatemala, 

 Mexico. Plant hirsute ; peduncles axillary, solitary, 1-flowered ; 

 calyx lobes ovate, spreading, small, corolla tube infundibuliform, 

 pubescent, gibbous at the base, orange-crimson, streaked in 

 the mouth. 



Ghiesbrechtii (fig. "Jour. Roy. Hort. Soc." 5, 194).— Hybrid? 

 Stems erect, purplish-brown, with a few scattered hairs ; leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate, rugose, convex, serrate ; peduncles axillary, 

 solitary, slender, twice the length of petioles ; calyx small, lobes 

 5, equal ; corolla tube deflexed, tube cylindric, gibbous at the 

 base. The corolla tube is not spurred at the base, and it differs 

 otherwise from grandiflora, where it has been located in the 

 " Index Kewensis." 



gloxiniaeflora = Plectopoma giabratum. 



hirsuta (fig. "Bot. Mag." 4144). — Guatemala. Aerial bulbils in 

 the axils of the leaves and branches ; flowers large, rose-red, 

 blotched in the mouth, tube saccate at the base ; peduncles 

 elongate, terminal, or axillary, 1-flowered, or forked and 2- 

 flowered. See also "Bot. Reg." 1843, p. 55 ; Paxton, "Mag." 

 12, 7 (as grandiflora), a straggling species. 



ichthyostoma (fig. "Hook. Ic." 472).— Brazil. Very like multi- 

 flora, but peduncles 1-flowered. See Hanst. in "Linn." xxxiv. 

 (1865), 434. 



ignescens, " Fl. des Serres" = heterophylla. 



Jauregnia = longiflora. 



Kleei (Paxton, " Mag." 16, 289) = longiflora. 



longiflora (fig. " Bot. Mag." 19 and 3980).— Guatemala and South 

 Mexico. See also "Bot. Reg." 1842, t. 19, and var. alba " Fl. 

 des Serres," 536, and "Bot. Mag." 4012 (as grandiflora), fine 

 crimson-flowered variety. This species, with its varieties and 

 hybrids, is much the largest flowered and finest in the genus, 

 and should be grown in every collection ; in a hanging basket 

 it is glorious. 



