JOUKNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



magnified (fig. "Fl. des Serres," 1013) = Isoloma magnifica. 



multiflora (fig. "Hook. Ic. PL" 468 ; " Bot. Mag." 3993).— Brazil. 

 Plant hairy ; peduncles axillary, 3-5-flowered ; flowers medium- 

 sized, pale purple. 



ocellata.— " FI. des Serres," 336; "Bot. Mag." 4359 = Isoloma 

 ocellata. 



patens.— "Fl. des Serres," i. 3, 245 = grandiflora. 



pedunculata (fig. "Bot. Mag." 4077). — Guatemala. Aerial 

 bulbils in the axils of the leaves and branches ; flowers orange 

 and yellow blotched, dark crimson in the mouth, tube saccate at 

 the base ; peduncles leafy, very long, axillary, 1-3-flowered. 

 A beautiful species. See also " Bot. Reg." (1842), 31. 



picta = Isoloma picta. 



pyropoea (" Journ. Hort. Soc." 2, 4) = coccinea. 



rosea (fig. " Bot. Reg." [1841], 65).— Guatemala. Peduncles axil- 

 lary, several-flowered ; flowers medium size, scarlet. The plant 

 sent out by florists as * Harry Williams ' does not appear to differ 

 from this species. 



rupestris (fig. " Hook. Ic. PI." 480).— Brazil. Leaves ternately 

 verticelled ; peduncles axillary, solitary, 1-flowered ; flowers rather 

 large, pale-purple. 



Skinneri ("Jour. Hort. Soc." 2, 4) = hirsuta. 



The hybrids in this genus are too numerous to be mentioned 

 here. In " The Garden," 1882, ii. 198, there is a long list 

 of those grown for trial at Chiswick Gardens. All are very 

 pretty and well worth growing. One hybrid I must mention, 

 that is, margarittae (Valleraud), a very beautiful white flowering 

 variety, with the flowers of thick texture, not very often seen 

 in England, but one of the very best for hanging baskets or 

 pots. To show amateurs how very easily this genus is pro- 

 pagated and increased I may mention here that I received two 

 small tubers of margarittae from the Continent in January some 

 years ago ; when these grew, the tops were taken off several 

 times and rooted in sand in the propagating frame, and the 

 tops again off these ; they all soon grew into flowering plants, 

 and in the same summer I had several hanging baskets and 

 pots of it in full flower. 



(Scheeria.— -" Seem. Bot. Her." 184. The two species, mexicana 

 and lanata, are now referred to Achimenes ; the name 

 " Scheeria " may be dropped.) 

 Scheerii (fig. "Bot. Mag." 4743). — Mexico. Flowers large, 

 purplish-blue, solitary in the axils of the leaves, funnel- 

 shaped, hairy outside ; stem erect, hairy (olim " Scheeria 

 mexicana "). 



lanata (fig. "Bot. Mag." 4963 as ' ' Scheeria ").— The Western 

 Cordillera, Mexico. Plant more or less whitish, hairy ; peduncles 

 long, axillary, 1-flowered; flowers lilac with purple veins, the 

 tube swelling upwards, the lobes denticulate. Syn. Eucodonia 

 Elircnbcrgi. 



Continental establishments advertise hybrid Scheerias. 



