Achimenes
About a score species, all tropical American (from Brazil to Mexico), are included in this genus. To the species and varieties described on pp. 12-14, Vol. I., the following should now be added: A. tubiflora (tubular-flowered).* fl. pure white; corolla tube 4in. long, a little enlarged and curved upwards, with a broad gibbosity at base, the limb 1 1/2in. broad, equally five-lobed; pedicels 2in. long; panicle several-flowered. Summer. l. opposite, oblong, acuminate, reticulated, downy, obscurely crenate; petioles short and thick. Buenos Ayres. See Fig. 1. SYNS. Dolichoderia tubiflora, Gloxinia tubiflora (B. M. 3971; B. R. 1845, 3).