462 GESNERIACEJE. 



leaves 4"-l£", petioles 2"'-4'", calyx-lobes 2"'-3'", corolla 8'" long, the latter 2"| diam — 

 Hab. Jamaica !, Pd., in rocky, calcareous mountains, Hanover, summit of Dolphin's Peak. 



i5. C. Sloanei, DC. Suffruticose, simple; down villous; leaves spathulate-oblong, 

 pointed, crenate-serrate, and repand, membranaceous, rugose, scabrous, villous on the ribs 

 beneath ; flowers fascicled in the axils : pedicels about as long as the petiole ; calyx-tube 

 obtusely 10-costate : lodes linear-acuminate, much shorter than the corolla-tube, at length 

 excrescent, spreading ; corolla crimson, slightly puberulous : tube incurved, clavate-cylin- 

 drical, much longer than the small, roundish, oblique lobes. — SI. t. 102./. 1. — Gesnera 

 acaulis, L., Sw. C. hispida, Benth. ! — Naked part of the stem 6"-18" high, or reduced j 

 leaves 6"-4", petioles 2"'-3'" (-6'"), calyx-lobes 3"'-4'", (at length -8'"), corolla H" long. 

 — Hab. Jamaica!, all coll., common on calcareous rocks. 



16. C. libanensis, Gr. Suffruticose, low, simple ; down scabrous ; leaves spathulate- 

 oblong, unequally serrate, and repand, membranaceous, rugose, roughish, scabrous on the 

 ribs beneath ; flowers fascicled in the axils : pedicels short, at length excrescent ; calyx- 

 tide at length obtusely 10-costale : lobes lanceolate, acuminate, half or one-third as long 

 as the corolla-tube ; corolla crimson, pubescent : tube incurved, clavate-cylindrical, much 

 longer than the small, roundish, subequal lobes. — Bot. Mag. t. 4380. — Gesnera, Morr. 

 Ophianthe, Hanst. Rytidophyllum floribundum, Houtt. — Naked part of the stem often 

 only 1" long; rosular leaves 4"-2", petioles l."'-2'", calyx-lobes 3"'-4'", corolla 9"'-10"'. 

 long. — Hab. Jamaica!, Macfl, Lane ; [Cnba!, Haiti I]. 



*** Corolla-tube narrowly campanutate, straightish : limb short, oblique; reduced stem 

 herbaceous. (Chorisauthera, Don.) 



17. C. pumila, Mart. Nearly stemless, herbaceous ; down jointed ; leaves cuneate- 

 spathulate, blunt, crenate above, subscssile, membranaceous -. hairs scattered ; peduncles 

 1-2-flowered, exceeded by the leaves ; calyx-tube ovate-oblong, subecostate : lobes lanceo- 

 late, bluntish, one-third as long as the corolla-tube ; corolla white, " purple at the base, ' 

 narrowly campanulate : lobes short, unequal, spreading-erect, rounded, ciliate : the superior 

 lip equalling the stamens. — Gesnera, Sw. — Root perennial ; rosular leaves 3"-H", peduncles 

 l"-s , corolla 6'" long. — Hab. Jamaica !, Pd., Wullschl., on moist rocks, Manchester, 

 Westmoreland. 



Tribe II. BESLEBIEJE. — Embryo cylindrical, enclosed by albumen or nearly exalbu- 

 minous (Cyrtandrese). Calyx free from the ovary. — Leaves opposite: one often smaller 

 in the pair (or reduced). 

 Episcia and Tussacia, having been found by Bentham nearly devoid of albumen, would 



form a passage into Cyrtandrete, which I know no longer how to distinguish from Besleriea. 



8. EPISCIA, Mart. 



Calyx 5-partite, equal. Corolla infundibular, straightish, narrower than the subequal 

 limb : stamens inserted near its base : filaments connected in pairs. Capsule medianicide. 

 — Flaccid, pilose herbs; peduncles axillary , few-\-flowered. 



18. E. melittifolia, Mart. Stem ascending; leaves elliptical, pointed, crenate, long- 

 petioled, glabrescent ; peduncles about as loug as the petiole : flowers purple ; calyx-segments 



ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, about half as long as the deflexed corolla-tube. — Bot. Mag. 

 t. 4720.— Besleria, L. Skiophila, Hanst.— V high or lower ; leaves 8"-4", calyx 4"'-5'" 

 long. — Hab. Dominica!, Imr., S.Vincent!, Guild, j Trinidad!, Cr. ; [French islands!, 

 Sieb. Mart, suppl. 14, in moist woods]. 



19. E.? subacaulis, Gr. (». sp.). Stemless, or slem reduced ; leaves approximate, 

 spathulate-oblong, pointed, subserrate above, cuneate at the subsessile base ; down scattered ; 

 peduncles few-flowered, half as long as the leaves ; calyx-segments ovate-lanceolate, pointed. 

 — Our specimens are in fruit ; membranaceous leaves 6"-3", calyx 3'" long, its segments 

 reticulated, exceeding the capsule. — Hab. Trinidad !, Cr., Las Cuevas. 



