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Echites Fraxciscoe, yar. pallidielora, Hooker. Sulphur-coloured Echites of San Francisco (Bot. Mag., t. 
4547).—Nat. ord., Apocynaceae § Wrighteae.—A free growing stoye climber, with opposite ovate-acute leaves, and 
simple axillary racems of salver-shaped flowers, of a pale sulphur colour, with a rose-coloured eye. From Brazil 
Introduced from the Paris Garden before 1850. Flowers in summer. Koyal Botanic Garden, Kew. 
Tacsonia maxicata, Jussieu. Manicate or gauntletted Tacsonia.—( Paxt. FI. Gard ., i., t. 26).—Nat. Ord., 
Passifloraceae.—A su¬ 
perb conservatory clim¬ 
ber, requiring ample 
space for its rambling 
branches, which are 
furnished with three- 
lohed leaves, smooth 
above, downy beneath, 
and serrated on the 
margin. The flowers 
are large, brilliant scar¬ 
let, the short tube 
almost concealed hv 
three large entire 
downy bracts; the coronet consists of a 
double row of short purple filaments. 
“ The grounds upon which Tacsonias are 
separated from the Passifloras seems by 
no means clear. De Candolle relies on 
the long calyx-tube and scarlet coronet of 
the former—in which this does not agree. 
Meyer’s analysis brings out no more; and 
it is impossible to gather any distinction 
from Endlicher’s descriptions. Neverthe¬ 
less, there is something very peculiar in 
the appearance of the Tacsonias; and we 
trust a real distinctive character will in time 
be discovered.” ( lindl. 1. c.). From Peru ; 
7000 feet above the sea. Introduced in 
1847. Flowers in summer and autumn. 
Horticultural Society of London. 
Achimenes ghiesbreghtii of gardens. 
Ghiesbreght’s Achimenes ( Journ . Hart. Soc., 
v. 193).—Nat. Ord., Gesneraceae § Gesnereae. 
—A handsome stove perennial, with scaly 
rhizomes, and a slender erect stem growing 
nearly or quite a foot high, and of a deep 
purple-brown colour. The leaves are oppo¬ 
site oblong-lanceolate, rugose and coarsely 
serrated. The flowers solitary from the 
axils of the leaves, on slender peduncles; 
bright scarlet; the tube of the corolla deflexed, nearly cylindrical, an inch and a 
half long ; the limb oblique, of five nearly equal lobes surrounding the circular 
throat.—A Continental garden variety. Introduced in 1848. Flowers during 
summer. 
Achimexes igxescexs of the gardens —a variety with flowers, having an 
orange-scarlet tube, an inch and a half long, and a spreading nearly equal five- 
lohed limb, five-eighths of an inch in diameter, rich bright scarlet, with a spotless 
orange throat, is synonymous with the above, or very closely allied to it. 
Achimexes Bodxeri of gardens. Bodner’s Achimenes.—Nat. Ord., Gesneraceoe § Gesnereae.—A dwarf free- 
blooming variety, with the leaves acutely elliptic, coarsely serrated, an inch and a half long, bright green above, 
purplish beneath, and growing in whorls of three, with the flowers from the axils ; calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate ; 
corolla with a smooth tube, and an obliquely-spreading limb, about an inch in diameter, bluish lilac-purple, with a 
bright yellow eye, spotted with rich brown. A Continental garden variety. Introduced in 1849. Flowers in 
summer. Mr. Salter of Hammersmith. 
Achimexes baumaxxii of gardens. Baumann’s Achimenes.—Nat. Ord.. Gesneraceoe § Gesnereae.—A compact 
growing, dwarf, free-blooming varietv, with ovate-acute coarsely-serrated leaves, two inches long, reddish beneath, 
Tacsonia Manicata 
