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Naegelia. — This genus is allied to Achimenes and has similar caterpillar- 

 like corms, but the flowers are arranged in a terminal leafless 

 raceme. Many of the species have very beautiful velvety 

 crimson or mottled plush-like leaves ; they require a good deal 

 of heat ; water should not be given over the leaves. The 

 Continental hybrids off zebrina are very numerous, differing in 

 the colour of the flowers and leaves ; of these the best are 1 Ama- 

 bilis,' ' Prince de Bulgaria,' and ' Sirius.' The genus has also 

 been crossed with Achimenes, the progeny being called Naegelo- 

 Achimenes, very pretty stove plants ; the best I have grown being 

 * Madame Jehenna.' It has also been crossed with Gesnera, and 

 Gesnera refulgens is, I believe, from this source ; it comes under 

 Naegelia rather than Gesnera. 



Cinnabarina (fig. " Bot. Mag." 5036).— Guatemala. Terminal 

 head of brilliant orange flowers. Very much grown. 



multiflora (fig. " Bot. Mag." 5083).— Oaxaca ; 2,000-3,000 feet 

 elevation. Flowers whitish with yellow throat, in a large 

 terminal head. {Amabilis fig. "El. des Serres," 1192.) 



Zebrina (fig. " Bot. Mag." 3940).— Guatemala and Mexico. 

 Beautiful highly coloured velvety leaves ; large terminal 

 raceme of orange-yellow drooping bell-shaped flowers. Common 

 in cultivation. 



Naegelia zebrina and probably the other two species have been 

 crossed with the Plectopomas and Scheerias, the result being the 

 hybrid Plectopomas and Eucodonias. See under Achimenes. 

 NematanthUS. — A genus of straggling, climbing or epiphytic plants, 

 seldom seen out of botanical gardens. 

 COrticicola (fig. "Bot. Mag." 4460 as ionema). — Tropical 



America. Blood-red flowers on long stalks ; straggling habit, 

 longipes (fig. "Bot. Mag." 4015). — Brazil. Very long-petioled 

 axillary scarlet flowers ; very straggling habit, generally grown 

 in and trained round a basket. Chloronema (" Bot. Mag." 4080) 

 is a shorter-petioled variety of this. 

 Niphaea Oblonga (fig. " Bot. Keg." 28, 5).— Tropical America, Colombia. 



Pretty white flowers. A nice little pot-plant. Niphaea rubida, 

 " Fl. des Serres," iii. 251, Phinaea rubida Fritsch., are synonyms. 

 Roezli (fig. " Gartenfl." 896).— Of botanical interest only. 

 Paliavana prasinata (fig. "Bot. Reg." 428).— Brazil. Flowers in a 

 terminal head on short axillary peduncles, greenish, dark-dotted, 

 villous, tube short, much dilated towards the mouth. A very 

 curious plant. 



Pentarhaphia catalpaeflora (Decne in " Ann.'Sc. Nat." ser. iii., vi. 



[1846], 100) (not figured). — West Indies. Leaves oblong, 

 crenulate ; peduncles twice as long as the petioles, 2-3-flowered ; 

 pedicels elongate ; calyx-sepals subulate ; corolla-tube ventricose, 

 campanulate. A woody plant. 

 Craniolaria (Decne, I.e. 99) (not figured). — San Domingo. 

 Flowers greenish-yellow, black-dotted, 5-6 on a long peduncle. 

 A shrub. 



