tal placentas, a fleshy disk round the base of the ovarium, 
and stamens not agreeing in number. with the lobes of the 
corolla. With Columnea he associated, besides Gesneria 
and Besleria, Achimenes and Eriphia of Browne, Gloxinia of 
L'Héritier, and as uncertain, Orobanchia of Vandelli, Cyr- 
tandra of Forster, and Sanchesia of the Flora Peruviana. 
