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producing hybrids, C. fulgens and some other magnificent looking plants having been produced between this kind 
and C. crenatiflora. The species is herbaceous, and a native of the province of Mendoza in Chili, whence it 
was introduced in 1828. It is the hardiest of all the species of Calceolaria. 

OTHER SPECIES OF CALCEOLARIA 
C. CORYMBOSA Ruiz et Pav. 
This very handsome plant is a native of Chili. It has also been the parent of numerous hybrids, but generally 
speaking they are not either so vigorous or so splendid in their colours as those raised from C. crenatiflora 
| C. PURPUREA Graham. 
This has also been the parent of many hybrids, but generally speaking it is as inferior for this purpose to 
C. arachnoidea as C. corymbosa is to C. crenatiflora. C. purpurea is a native of Chili, whence it was introduced 
in 1827. 

CHAPTER XLVIII. 
GESNERACEZ Richard. 
EssenTiAL Cuaracter.—Calyx five-cleft. Corolla oblique ; tube | cohering by pairs or altogether. Ovarium one-celled. Placentas two 
drawn out behind and in front; limb five-cleft, sub-bilabiate. Stamens | parietal, bilamellate. Fruit capsular or baccate, silique-formed or 
four, didynamous, with usually the rudiment of a fifth, alternating with | round. Seeds numerous, hanging by long funicles or erect. (G. Don.) 
the divisions of the corolla, the upper one abortive. Anthers distinct, 
Description, &¢,—The plants belonging to this order are nearly all very ornamental. The roots are usually 
tuberous. Most of the species require a hothouse in Great Britain, but some few are greenhouse plants. 

GENUS I. 
ACHIMENES P. Browne. THE ACHIMENES. 
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Lin, Syst. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Generic Cuaracter.—Tube of the calyx adnate to the ovarium ; roundish. Stamens four, didynamous, with the rudiments of a fifth. 
limb five-parted ; lobes lanceolate. Corolla tubularly funnel-shaped, | Anthers not cohering. Ovarium girded by a ring. Capsule dry, one- 
somewhat gibbous at the base; limb five-cleft ; lobes nearly equal and | celled. Placentas two, parietal. 
Description, &c.—The first species of this genus that was discovered was called by Dr. Patrick Browne 
Achimenes, but it afterwards received four or five other names, by one or two of which it was generally known, till 
now, after the lapse of seventy years, it has been restored to its original appellation. For many years only this one 
species was known in Great Britain, but in 1841 several others were sent to England by Mr. Hartweg, and since 
that period still more have been introduced. The name of Achimenes signifies unable to bear tempestuous weather, 
but the application of it to this plant does not appear very clear. 

1.—ACHIMENES COCCINEA Pers. THE SCARLET ACHIMENES. 
Synonymes.—A. minor P. Browne; Trevirania pulchella Willd. ; Sprciric Cuaracter.—Plant tomentosely hairy. Leaves three in 
Cyrilla pulchella Z’Herit.; Buchnera coccinea Scop.; Columnea | a whorl, ovate, acuminated at both ends, serrated, with minute leaves 
erecta Lam. ; Gesnera pulchella Swartz. in the axils. Peduncles solitary, axillary. 
Encravinc.—Bot. Mag,, t. 374. 
Descriprion, &c.—This species, under the names of Trevirania and Cyrilla, is well known in nurseries. It used 






