AO AA 
1767 
* GESNÉRA allagophýlla. 
Shifting-leaved Gresnera. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. Gesnere®, Richard. (Introduction to the Natural System 
of Botany, p. 227.) 
GESNERA.—Supra, vol. 4. fol. 329. 
G. allagophylla ; caule erecto piloso sepé trigono, foliis villosis subsessilibus 
ternis oppositis vel sparsis lineari- oblongis spatulatisve obtusis crenatis, 
floribus sessilibus in verticillis spicáve longá terminali, corollae tubo piloso 
cylindrico: limbo equali patenti glabro, glandulis hypogynis duabus posticis. 
De Martius Nov. Gen. et Sp. pl. 3. 36. 
A stove plant, our drawing of which was made last July 
from a specimen belonging to Mr. Young of Epsom. Un- 
fortunately we had no opportunity of making any notes 
concerning its structure, and consequently we are uncertain 
whether it is rightly referred to the above named species. 
It agrees very well with von Martius’ careful description, 
except that we did not observe the upper part of the stem 
to be at all triangular. 
If we are right in the species to which we have referred 
it, this is a native of the auriferous plains of Brazil in the 
Province of the Mines, in various places, especially about 
Villa Rica, the town of S. Jodo d'El Rey, in the Serras da 
Pires and da Piedade, and elsewhere. It has also been 
met with by Sellow, beyond the Tropic, in the Province of 
St. Paul's. (Martius. ) 
A very pretty neat species, and an interesting addi- 
tion to the showy and easily cultivable genus to which it 
belongs. 
* See folio 1158. 
