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SINNINGIA guttata. 
Dotted-flowered Sinningia. 
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DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. GESNERIEE. 
SINNINGIA. Supra, vol. 12. fol. 997. 
S. guttata; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis basi attenuatis tomentosis lucidis, corollis 
guttatis, calycibus cylindrico-campanulatis ovario triplo longioribus. 
Habitus et statura S. Helleri; caulis crassus, teres, velutinus. Folia 
oblongo-lanceolata, basi attenuata, leviter serrata, utrinque velutina, suprà 
atro-viridia, lucida. Flores solitarii, pedunculis petiolo multd brevioribus. 
Calyx 5-alatus, campanulatus, 5-fidus, inflatus, ovario triplo longior. Corolla 
pallida, pubescens, calyce paulo longior, limbo intús tuboque maculis parvis, 
livido-purpureis guttata. 
A native of Brazil, whence roots were sent to the 
Horticultural Society in 1826, by Henry Chamberlain, Esq., 
His Majesty's Consul-General at Rio Janeiro. Requires the 
heat of a damp stove, where it flowers abundantly during 
nearly all the summer. It should be cultivated in decayed 
vegetable earth, and may be propagated by division of its 
roots. 
Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticultural 
Society in July last, from two plants, one of which had 
been sent to the Society by Mr. Chamberlain, as above 
mentioned; the other had been received from Mr. John 
Henry Masters, Nurseryman of Stoke Newington. 
When Sinningia Helleri was published in this work, about 
fifteen months ago, it was the only species in our gardens, 
the genus itself having been described only a short time 
previously. Since that period, three other species, of which 
this is one, have been introduced. As they are all, even 
the original-one, undefined, we avail ourselves of the present 
opportunity of stating their specific characters. 
