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TAB. 4175.

ACHIMENES ARGYROSTIGMA. Silvery-spotted Achimenes.

Nat. Ord. GESNERACEÆ.-DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Generic Character (Vide supra, TAB. 4125.)

oppo- ACHIMENES argyrostigma; pubescenti-pilosa, cauli brevi inclinato, foliis sitis ellipticis crenatis albo-maculatis, racemis subterminalibus elongatis multifloris calycibusque piloso-glandulosis, corollæ labio superiore abbreviato bilobo inferiore concavo fimbriato, tubo extus ore ovarioque pilosis. Among many novelties sent by our Collector for the Royal Botanic Gardens from the Sierra Nivada de Sta. Marta in New Grenada, is the accompanying highly interesting plant. The leaves are peculiarly beautiful, of a rich, velvetty, dark green, with a tinge of purple, spotted with white, as in Begonia argyrostigma. We will not deny that (partly from the consciousness that the plant was a true Achimenes), very great expectations were raised in respect to the beauty of its flowers. Their first appearance no doubt disappointed us; but as the racemes increased in length and more blossoms expanded, the plant became a general favourite and is likely to continue so, for the flowers bid fair to continue the whole summer months. They are white or cream-colour, spotted with red. The plant requires the same treatment as others of this family; and we find it best, after rearing it in in a moist and hot stove, to remove it to a cooler place; thus treated the bloom and foliage continue in beauty a great length of time. It will be readily increased, we cannot doubt, by its scaly, cater- pillar-like tubers, as is the case with the original Achimenes cocci- nea, of which this is unquestionably a true congener.

Botanical Description Root branched and fibrous, bearing from the fibres

long scaly buds or tubers, by which the plant readily increases. Stem herbaceous, short, somewhat branched, green, hairy, as well as the thick petioles. Leaves opposite, elliptical, obtuse, crenato- serrate, downy, of a rich deep velvetty green, marked with scattered white rounded spots. Racemes erect, from the axils of the upper leaves, very much longer than the leaves, glanduloso-hirsute, and AUGUST 1ST, 1845. Thrifty Whiskers bearing flowers almost from the very base. Pedicels half an inch to an inch long, each with a small linear bractea at the base, rarely forked. Calyx, as well as the pedicel, pilose and glandular. Tube adnate with the base of the ovate hairy germen; the seg- ments linear, slightly spreading. Corolla white, beautifully mottled with red. Tube rather short and gibbous at the base behind, hairy; limb oblique, two-lipped; upper lip abbreviated, two-lobed, with the lobes nearly entire, the lower divided into three lobes, which are rounded and fimbriated. Stamens four, didynamous; the white anthers cohering all from the base of the tube of the corolla and with a fifth abortive stamen between the two pairs. Germen surrounded by a deep cup-shaped ring or disk. Style included, curved. Stigma capitate, two-lobed. The fruit presents two parietal receptacles nearly meeting in the centre and having many minute seeds in the lower portion chiefly of the receptacles.

Figures

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