Plate 11. 
HYBRID TYDJEAS. 
Tydeeci formosa , etc. 
The genus Tydcea , which is represented by the old AcMmenes 
pi eta , and seems to he now generally admitted as a distinct 
group, consists of very handsome herbaceous hothouse plants, 
whose numerous progeny are raised with great facility, and 
sport into all manner of forms and colours. The subjects of 
our illustration are some of the most pleasing and ornamental 
cross-bred varieties we have met with. They were raised by 
Messrs. Parker and Williams, of Holloway, and are the result 
of a cross between the varieties named Princess Charlotte and 
Leopard , both handsomely spotted kinds. That called formosa, 
when exhibited in April last before the Floral Committee of 
the Horticultural Society, was commended by that body as a 
variety of improved habit and ornamental character. The va¬ 
riety insignis has not yet been exhibited. 
The variety which bears the name formosa has erect growing 
stems, which continue to bloom in succession upwards, and in 
this way go on flowering for months : the plant just mentioned, 
though at the time it was exhibited in a very ornamental state, 
had been, it was said, producing flowers since the previous Oc- 
Plate 11.—Ttd^ea (hybrida)— 
Tig. 1. roBMOSA: stem erect; leaves ovate, hairy; pedicels "branched; 
calyx hairy, with broad leafy ovate lobes, having recurved edges; co¬ 
rolla-tube (H inch) crimson, ventricose below, clothed with red hairs, 
limb (1 inch) rosy-lake, dotted with crimson, sprinkled with hyaline 
hairs; stamens 4, the anthers coherent; stigma bifid; glands 5, dis¬ 
tinct, truncate, subtridentate. 
Tybt:a toemosa, Moore , Proceed. Sort. Soc. i. 199. 
Tig. 2. insights : flowers larger than in formosa , light crimson, with 
intense crimson spots confluent in longitudinal lines; tube light-red, 
paler and ventricose beneath, clothed with hyaline jointed hairs. 
