NEW GLOXINIAS, &c. 
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NEW AND CHOICE ACHIMENES— Continued. 
STELLA, flowers 2J inches across, clear magonta, orange eye, spotted with carmine, nicely 
serrated, distinct and beautiful. 2s. 6d. 
VENUS, white, with the eye shaded with purplish crimson. 3«. Gd. 
VIVICANS, carmine, with crimson eye, shaded round with a blue ray, very distinct. Sd. 
Selections of other wcll-hnomn good sorts can be made from Mr. W. B.’a general collection, 
at Gs. and 12». 2 >er dozen. 
CYRTODEIRA (ACHIMENES) METALLICA. 
Introduced from South America. It has bright scarlet flowers, and large, thick, ovate leaves, 
hirsute, and of an olive hue, with red central baud radiating from the mid-rib, giving the loaves a 
metallic character ; it is of trailing habit, and well adapted for suspending baskets. 2s'. Gd. 
CYRTODEIRA (ACHIMENES) CHONTALENSIS. 
This is a very beautiful Gesneraceous plant. The leaves are purple on the under side, and on the 
upper light green (like those of Begonia, smaragdina), with very dark green blotches. The flowers 
appear in November and December, and aro lilac, and as large as a crown piece, with a yellow 
centre and a whitish tube. The roots are fibrous (not catkin-like rhizomes, as in the Achimeues 
tribe), and in habit the plant resembles the only other known species of the genus (C. ciqireata, 
Hansteiu), which has smaller and scarlet flowers, and a hairy ovary. 5.v. 
NEW GLOXINIAS. 
For 7ietv vm'ieties, qff'ered for the first timey seepage 8. 
Those marked tints (*) have erect fiowers. 
Tho following extract in reference to those Gloxinias has been tahen from the Gardeners 
Chronicle : — 
The most interesting thing shown at tho eighth sorie of the Paris Show was a large collection of 
extraordinary seedling Gloxinias. They aro as good as they aro entirely new in style, and the 
admiration of all who have seen them. This popular plant is, in fact, ennobled, and placed a stop 
higher by their appearance. A few years ago, M, Vallerand, gardener to a gentlemen at Baugival, 
raised a seedling spotted in a way that reminds one of Achimenes Amhroise Versclnffeltj and from 
this all these exquisite varieties have sprung. If I say that some of them do not look like Gloxinias 
at all, but like tho flowers of a Dipladenia, it may seem exaggeration, but it is nevertheless a fact ; 
and as really good things aro sui’O to spread, there will bo, ore long, an opportunity of seeing them 
in England. No choice varieties of Foxglove or herbaceous Calceolaria ever seen bear such hand- 
some and delicate spotting, while the improvement in form is equally remarkable, tho limb of some 
erect varieties having a stain of rose at the base of each section of the limb, and which afterwards 
spreads out into a rosy suffusion towards tho margin. Some varieties have the throat sjjotted ; 
generally tho throat is pure white, and the limb regularly spotted with rose and lilac, while a few 
are of a pure waxy white, and with a simple stain of roso, or purple, or blue tint, appearing at the 
base of each section of tho limb ; or the whole suffused with blue iu a peculiarly beautiful shade. 
But it is in vain to hope to give you an idea of their beauty of colour ; suffice it to say, that I have 
never seen it so refined and exquisite iu any other plant than in some of the more recent varieties 
raised.*’ 
**C01ITE D’AVILA, tube white, throat rayed and spotted with lilac violet, limb white, entirely 
covered with small violet blue dots. 3*\ Qd. 
^COIHTESSE DE NADAILLAC, pure white, of perfect form and good habit. Zs. Gd, 
#DON LUIS DE PORTUGAL, tube white, the throat rayed and spotted with carmine lilac, with 
a zone of tho same colour, but more intense at the mouth, and a second zone ol violet blue 
gradually passing into bluo spots upon the pure white limb. 3^. Gd. 
•MADAME MORENO-HENRiaUEZ, white throat, slightly tinted with sulphur yellow, the 
mouth zoned with light carmine violet ; white limb, with an infinite number of small blue 
dots. 3$. 6^. 
*MARIE PIE, white tube, throat white, striped and spotted with rose, tho limb near the mouth 
being thickly dotted with rose ; white border, spotted with violet bluo. 3^. Gd. 
^MARIEI^TA, white tube, tho limb rich deep violet. 3s. Gd. 
MOGOL, tube dotted with rod, purple crimson limb, very clear at the border. A large and strong 
flower, lasting a long time iu bloom. 3s. Gd, 
