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tipped with red, considered the calyx, and then gradually pass 
into the copious, spreading, straw-coloured, glossy, linear-obloug, 
or subspathulate petals, serrated and mucronated at the apex, of 
which the more exterior, however, are entire, and tinged with 
dull red. Stamens numerous, orange-colour; style rather longer, 
six-rayed, yellow.— Bot. Mag, 4358. 
Gesneriace.e. —Bidynamia Angiospermia. 
Achimenes ocellata (Hooker). Hoots of this beautiful new 
Achimenes were sent from the Isthmus of Panama by the Govern¬ 
ment collector and naturalist of H.M.S. Herald, Mr. Seemann ; 
and they produced their bright, vermilion-red flowers, dotted on the 
limb with black spots, upon a pale yellow ground, in the winter of 
1847-8, in the stove of the Royal Gardens. In the early spring, 
however, the blossoms were much more brilliant, of a deep ver¬ 
milion, but with less of the white round the black dots ; so that 
the name was less characteristic. It promises to be a great or¬ 
nament to our collections, and will, in the summer, we cannot 
doubt, flourish best in a cool greenhouse. The stems rise from 
one to two feet high; they and the petioles are deep purple, as 
also is the under side of the handsome, full-green foliage. The 
flowers are produced at the axils of the leaves, near the top of the 
stem ; the tube of the corolla is campanulate, about an inch long; 
the limb of five spreading, nearly equal, rounded segments, rather 
copiously marked with white spots, bearing black dots in the 
middle. The white of these spots, however, at a more advanced 
season, was almost obsolete.— Bot. Mag. 4359. 
Malvaceae. —Monadelphia Polyandria. 
Sida ( Abulildn ) integerrima (Hooker). An old inhabitant of 
the stove of the Royal Gardens, but of whose history nothing has 
been preserved. By specimens, however, in my herbarium, from 
Funcke and Linden, I learn that it is unquestionably a native of 
New Granada. Its nearest affinity is perhaps Sida graveolens, 
from which it is abundantly distinguished by its large size, per¬ 
fectly entire leaves, different vestiture, differently formed calyx, 
much greater spread of (yellow) flowers, and by the well-defined, 
deep orange spots, quite confined to the base of the petals. It 
flowers in May, and is really one of the handsomest species of 
the genus.— Bot. Mag. 4360. 
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