abundantly during the summer months, and flourishing in a 
mixture of peat and loam. It strikes freely from cuttings 
of the stem, or from leaves. 
The plant described and figured in the Annales des 
Sciences, was, in all respects, much larger than that from 
which the figure in this work was taken. The author of 
the genus suggests that Gesneria calycina of Swartz may 
form another species. 
One foot high, or less. Stem round, thick, fleshy, 
naked at bottom. Leaves opposite, stalked, cordate, ovate, 
serrate, slightly pubescent. Flowers in a leafy comose 
raceme, pale greenish yellow. Calyxes solitary, axillary, 
inflated, campanulate, 5-lobed, lobes equal. Opposite the 
recesses of the calyx are five winged angles, the wings 
running down the ovarium, and ciliated. Corolla two 
inches long, shorter than leaves, funnel-shaped, pubescent, 
with viscid glandular hairs. The orifice with a large in¬ 
flated hump on the upper side, between the two upper 
divisions of limb. Tube inside striped with bright purple 
lines. Limb nearly regular, spreading, 5-lobed: lobes 
rounded, ovate, cordate; the lower the widest. Stamens 
4, didynamous, inserted into the base of corolla, shorter 
than the tube; Jilaments smooth, ascending. Anthers quite 
smooth, square, 2-celled, pale yellow, with a fleshy con- 
nectivum, firmly cohering in one head. Ovary inferior, 
5-winged, 1-celled, with double placentas. Ovules very 
numerous. Style hairy. Stigma cyathiform. 
