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GLOXINIA speciosa. 
Rough-leaved Brasil Gloxinia. 
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DIDYNAMIA 4NGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. CAMPANULACEE? Jussieu gen. 165. 
GLOXINIA. Cal. superus, 5-phyllus. Cor. campanulata limbo ob- 
liquo. Filamenta cum rudimento quinti receptaculo inserta. Willd. sp. pl. 
3. 229. 
G. speciosa, foliis cano-hirsutis ellipticis oblongisve crenatis, pedunculis 
erectis longioribus flore; segmentis calycis angulari-acuminatis pubes- 
centibus. 
Gloxinia speciosa. Loddige’s botan. cabinet. n. 28. 
Herbacea, perennis? Caulis totus foliosus, brevis? erectus. Folia oppo- 
айа subovato-v. subrotundo-elliptica v. oblonga, majora 8-uncialia et ultra 
latitudine sesunciali et ultra, obtuse subacuminata, nervosa nervis crassis suc» 
culentis subtàs varicosissimis, тойд infra subpurpurascentia, infima patentis- 
sima humi appressa (anne semper? ) : petioli crassi, patentissimi, supra canali- 
стан. Flores numerosi, speciost, violacei, solitario vel per trinos azillis 
superiorum diminutorum foliorum racemoso-digesti г pedunculi teretes, crassi, 
erecti, pilosi. Germ. breve, turbinatum, pubescens, Cal. erectus, germinis 
continuus, 5-partitus, segmento summo in plano cum pedunculo arrecto, sub» 
majore, distartiore, reliquis recurvo-patentibus. Cor. refracta, nutans, ses- 
quiuncialis, elongato-campanulata, obligue bilabiata, in dorso planior cum sulco 
"medio elevato pilosiusculo, cæterùm glabra, subtüs superné ventricosa pallidague 5 
tubus brevis gibbosus, bast obversus segmento postico galyois faux maxima, 
intits areolá albä рісі lineis punctisque atropurpureis ; limbus brevis 5-partitus, 
labia superiore бодо reflexo, inferiore trilobo porrectiore : lobi in universum 
"rotundati, transversim latiores, Glandule epigyne 6 dentiformes, breves 
luteola, cum filamentis alterna, stylum basi cingentes. Fil. imo tuba inserta, 
subequalia, alba, glabra, basi bulbosa; rudimentum quinti pon? stylum y 
nonnunguam provenit sextum completum ante stylum und cum cateris con- 
nivens: anth. ochroleuca in unam cernuam coadunate, didymoesubglobose, 
loculorum receptaculo reniformi crasso subdiaphano. Stylus albus, ascendens, 
uncialis, fistulosus, basi ДЕНА caterúm glaber: stigma hians, ore trans- 
verse latiore, intús pruinoso. 
Guoxinia differs from Martynia in having a superior 
instead of an inferior calyx, and was first separated from 
the latter genus by the learned and sagacious L'Heritier. 
It differs from Gesnerta in not having a tubular corolla. 
The present species makes the second now on record. It is 
very ornamental, and continues in blossom for a month or 
more together. Lately introduced from the Brasils. The 
drawing was taken from a plant which flowered this sum- 
mer in the hothouse at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and 
Kennedy, Hammersmith. 
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