Flowers white, arranged in cernuous, 4-5-flowered, umbelled 
racemes, which are seated upon a glandular peduncle ; 
bractee ovate, downy, toothed at the end, longer than the 
ovaries. Calyx tubular, cylindrical, twice as long as the 
ovarium, pubescent and glandular. Berries small, round, 
smooth, crowned by the long calyx. i 
Nore. 
We are informed by Mr, Otto, that the Gesneria macrostachya of fol. 
1202 of this work had been previously published in the Transactions of the 
Prussian Horticultural Society, under the name of G. latifolia of Martius. 
