of this volume,) for the handsome Grsneria here represent- 
ed. “Seeds of this plant,” he says, “ were transmitted by Mr. 
Mackenzie, the collector at the Caraccas for Mr. Harris and 
Mr. Lowe of the Clapton Nursery, and sent to both these 
zealous cultivators in February, 1819 ; sothat the plant shows 
its flowers in fourteen months from the planting of the seeds. 
Mackenzie found it at the foot of St. Pedro, thirty miles 
from the city of Caraccas. This species does not produce 
tuberous roots like most of the Genus, yet the stems are 
herbaceous, and die down after producing seeds ; at least, I 
think so from a cluster of scaly, creeping stems now forming 
of the colour of the plant, and which are analogous to the 
roots of Trevirana coccinea. The plant having begun 
thus early to provide itself with these creeping stems for 
producing a succession of flowering-stems and for extending 
itself on all sides, may be taken in evidence that this species 
does not require much rest, like the large tuberous-rooted 
Gesnerie. The stems are about eighteen inches high ; but 
when the plant is older and stronger, we may expect them 
greatly to exceed that size. The seeds, like all of the 
Genus, are very small, and should be sown in sand previ- 
ously watered, and then pressed down gently in the wet 
sand, but not covered. The young plants will rise in a few 
days and ought to be kept in a shady place till they are fit 
to be transplanted.””—I think there can be no doubt of its 
being the G. mollis of Humsotpr and Kuntu, though there 
are some slight discrepancies, but not more than may be 
accounted for from the circumstance of Humgoxpr’s figure 
being made from dried specimens. 
Descr. The shrubby stems and whole underside of the 
leaves are clothed with long, dense, silky hairs. From the 
axils of the leaves the very short peduncles appear, solitary, 
searcely more than a line long, having at the top some 
small bracteal scales. Umbel of from three to five flowers, 
on long hairy pedicels. Calyx with long, subulate divi- 
sions; the éube incorporated with the lower half of the 
ovary. Corolla funnel-shaped, rather densely hairy, red ; 
—the throat moderately open ; the limb equal, of five short, 
reflexed, acute lobes, orange spotted with red. Stamens 
included. Style exserted. Ovary very hairy, with five, 
equal-sized, yellow glands at the base. Stigma bifid. 
Fig. 1. Pistil : magnified. 
