Gloxinias, known botanically as Sinningia speciosa, are members of the gesneriad family, as are African violets, episcias, achimenes, and many other popular houseplants.    From Wordnik.com.  [RNews - TOP STORIES] Reference

Such a tiger-lily on my table, and the pretty delicate achimenes, and the stephanotis climbing up the verandah, and a bignonia by its side, with honeysuckle all over the steps, and jessamine all over the two water-tanks at the angle of the verandah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of John Coleridge Patteson]

For example, Anthony Parsons 'passion was “the improvement of various florists’ flowers” and his pioneering work his work on dahlias, pansies, verbenas, petunias, hollyhocks and achimenes resulted in dozens of new hybrids, the forefathers of many we grow today.    From Wordnik.com.  [the polymath in the garden] Reference

Cannas, agapanthus, gingers, callas, elephant ears, achimenes, philodendrons, bird-of-paradise, crinums, hymenocallis, clivia and amaryllis fall into this category.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Orleans Saints Central] Reference