ACHIMENES VENUSTA. 
(Lovely Achiraenes.) 
Class. Order. 
DID YN AMI A ANGIOSPERMIA . 
Natural Order. 
GESNER ACEiE. 
(Gesner- Worts, Veg. King.) 
Generic Character. — Calyx with its tube adnate to 
the ovary ; limb five-parted ; lobes lanceolate. Corolla 
tubularly funnel- shaped, often swollen at the base; 
limb five-cleft ; lobes sub-equal, sub-rotund. Stamens 
four, didynamous. A ntJiers not cohering. Rudiments 
of the fifth stamen situated below the base of the 
corolla. Nectary glandulose in a small ring. Style 
slightly thickened towards the stigma, oblique or with 
two separate lobes. Capsule nearly two-celled, two- 
valved ; placentas parietal, subsessile. 
GARDEN HYBRIDS. 
I. Achimenes venusta, Lovely Achimenes. — The subject of our present plate is 
a handsome kind, apparently raised betwixt A. roseum and A. patens, and partakes 
in a medium way of the habits of both the parents. The flowers also, both in size 
and colour, are intermediate, being of an intense purplish lilac, with a bright yellow 
throat. It is a prolific bloomer, with small leaves, of a dark green, tinged beneath 
with reddish purple, which latter colour also extends to the calyx, stems, and peduncles. 
Cultivators will no doubt highly esteem it. 
II. Achimenes coccinea intermedia, Intermediate Scarlet Achimenes, greatly 
resembles A. rosea, which is evidently one of its parents ; the flowers, however, are 
smaller, and of a brighter scarlet. 
III. Achimenes coccinea superba, Superb Scarlet Achimenes. — This kind bears 
flowers of a fine deep scarlet, with slight marks down the centre of the lobes of the 
corolla, and are somewhat larger than those of A. coccinea. 
TV. Achimenes coccinea grandiflora ignea, the Fiery Large-flowered 
Achimenes. — The flowers of this kind are of a fine crimson scarlet, very rich and 
brilliant, of a round form, with compact clean edges ; it is a free bloomer, and altogether 
very fine. The habits, like those of Nos. 2 and 3, resemble A. coccinea. 
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