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GESNERIA a^regata. 

 New Bra%il Gesneria^ 



DIDYNAMIA ^NGIOSPERMIA. 



Nat.ord* CAMPANutACE-iE. Jussieugen, 163. Div, L Anthene dif- 



ttncUe. 

 Gbskere^. Richard apud Kunih noD. gem etspec^^* 315. -i 



GESNERIA, CaL germini adnatus ; iimbo lioero, 5-partJto. Cor- 

 tubulosa, supernd ampliata; Umbo bilabiaCo; labio supenore emargmato- 

 btlobo, inferiore 3*fido. Stig. bilobum. Cum, calyce vestita, KlociiJaris, ' 

 2-yalvist placentis parietalibus 2 oppositiV, bifamellatis. 



HerbiB^ suffruttces autjrutices Jblits oppositis, temis cut qutdemig^ inie^ 

 gris, Pedunculi axillares 1- aui muki-^ri^ aut spiae terminaies, Corolls 

 coccine^e ant virescentes^ KuDth loc- cit- 



G* aggregala, tota villosa ; ramis teretibus ; foliis oppositis oblongo-ovatii 



crenatis ; peduncuJis 2-4^ as;i)laribu8, unifloris, aggregatis ; corollit 



clavato-cylindricis, hinc basi subdidymo-ventricosis- 



Herbacea? erecta. Fol- rugosa, subtus tomeniosO'albicantta ; petiolut 



pluries brevior lamina, ¥edxinc\i\i JiliformeSyfiexiles, hngiores Jloribus nw 



tantibus, Cal. herbaceusj 4^'plo brevior corolla, segme^Uis stellatO'patentibus 



angulaiO'Ovaiis, uno subrnajore. Cor. cocdnea, villosa^ reci/uscula, tubuncio' 



Us^ diametro /ere peiince scriptori^y postic^ ad basin ventre brevi abrupto sub' 



didymO'protuberante : limbus subceqttalis multoties brevior tubo^ obf^olete bila^ 



hiatus, laciniis rotundatis, 2 infimis lateralibus imbrkato^conniventibus, Stan). 



cequalia corollis, rudimentum quinti nullum: fil. alba^ glabra: anth- subqua^^ 



dratO'Con7iex£ey 4}-loculares^ loctdis receptaculo camoso papilloso insitis : pollen 



cchroleucum. Germ, conicum^ vUlosunty^ angustum, subbrevi^is segmentis 



calycinis : stylus JUiformis^ continuus, villositisculus, cuniculatus : stigma 



apertunty simplex* Glanduls 4> ad juncturam califcis cum germine in* 



sertiBy S albtv parvuliB denti/brmes iequidistantes, 1 lutea superior major du^ 



plicato'denti/brmism 



As far as we have been able to trace, the present species 

 appears to be unrecorded. It has been very lately introduced 

 from the Brazils. Flowers in the summer, and continues 

 by a succession of bloom a long while in beauty. The 

 drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, 

 Brames, and Milne, at Fulham, where it is cultivated in 

 the hothouse, but not in the tan-pit. 



It answers very well to the specific character of the 

 Gesneria tubiflara of Cavanilles; but a reference to the de- 

 tailed description and the figure of that species, allowing 

 even for their being obtained from a dried plant, proves to us 

 that the two can never be of the same species. 



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