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GLOXINIA hirsuta. 
Hairy Gloxinia. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. Gesnerie*. 
GLOXINIA. SuprA, vol. 3. fol. 213. 
G. hirsuta; foliis oblongis cordatis bullatis utrinque hirsutis, corolloe laciniis 
distantibus retusis, calycibus acutis. 
Radix.—Caulis hrevissimus, erectus, lignosus, duas lineas crassus, clan- 
destinus. Folia in apice caulis fasciculata, oblonga, obtusa, crenata, cordata, 
petiolata, hirsuta; petiolo pallide viridi, terete, lamina bullatd costa \-im- 
mersa, venis alte impressis: primariis baseos obliquis, superioribuspatentibus, 
arcuatis externis^we confluentibus, costalibus indistinctis; venulis propriis 
communibusywe subaqualibus, his subsimplicibus. Pedunculi solitarii, erecti, 
villosi, villis patentibus. Calyx campanulatus, suberectus, villosus, 5-lobus, 
lobis cequalibus, ovatis, acutis, tubi sui longitudine, obscuri 3-nervibus, nervis 
lateralibus intramarginalibus. Corolla alba, venis marginibusque limbi lata 
caruleis, infundibular is, inter duos lobos calycis inferiores declinatus, eoque 
ferk triplo longior; tubo subarcuato, extiis piloso, intus glabro, purpureo 
punctato, limbo obliquo, patente, 4-partito, lacinid superiore latiore 2-lobo; 
laciniis 3-nervibus: nervis apice furcatis, ramosis, lateralibus intramargin¬ 
alibus. Stamina 4, didynama, basi tubi inserta, quinto sterili glabro; tila- 
menta glabra; antheree cordata, glabra, loculis parallelis. Glandulse 5, 
staminibus alterna, parva, alba, crassa, subulata, obtusa. Ovarium semi- 
superum, uniloculare, placentis dudbus simplicibus parietalibus polyspermis, 
ovulis minutis, diaphanis, for amine basilari. Stylus subulatus, rectus, teres, 
pubcscens. Stigma concavum, obsolete bilobum. 
This new species of Gloxinia is a native of Brazil, whence it was 
sent by Mr. William Harrison, of Rio Janeiro, to his brother, Richard 
Harrison, Esq., of Aighburgh, near Liverpool, in whose stove it 
flowered last spring. The accompanying figure has been copied from 
a drawing made in Brazil, and communicated, with specimens of the 
plant, by Mr. Harrison. From this it appears that the stipes when 
old elongates and becomes prostrate, a state in which we have not 
observed it in this country. 
A tender stove plant, requiring the same treatment as its more 
beautiful congener. Gloxinia speciosa, from which it differs, besides 
its foliage, in not having the lobes of the corolla imbricating at their 
base. 
