session to the Botanic Garden of Ghent. In the Edinburgh 
Botanic Garden, and at Mr. Cunnineuam’s Nursery, Comely 
Bank, it flowered profusely in the end of September and in 
October. 
Our drawing, handsome as it is, can give but an imper- 
fect idea of the beautiful mottled and velvety foliage, and 
the rich scarlet and yellow of the copious and gracefully 
drooping flowers. At the time that Dr. Granam’s specimen 
was communicated to us, we had the privilege of seeing a 
charming plant of this species blossoming in great perfection 
in the damp Orchideous stove of Mrs. Lawrence of Ealing 
Park :—an atmosphere certainly, in which the GEsNERIzZ 
flourish better than I have seen them in any other situation. 
Probably such a climate is analogous to that of the native 
country of the Gesnerim, most of which come from Brazil, 
though the precise locality of this is not known. 
_Descr. Root tuberous, Stem (including the raceme, two feet and a 
half high in the specimen described) round, erect, stout, branched ; and, 
as well as the whole plant exclusive of the flowers, densely covered with 
unequal, spreading, simple pubescence. Leaves (six inches long, five 
and a half broad) opposite, petiolate, ovato-subrotund, slightly cordate 
at the base and slightly pointed, and reniform and somewhat oblique, 
thick and velvet-like, three-nerved, reticulate, pale beneath, full green 
above and darker along the nerves and veins, which are strongly promi- 
nent below, the reticulations flat, the lateral nerves generally divided at 
the base ; petioles nearly as long as the leaves, the lower spreading, the 
upper suberect, deeply channelled above. Raceme terminal; pedicels 
simple, four inches long, erect, rounded, tapering a little upwards, 
Springing from the axil of a small, subulate, involute, green, coriaceous 
bract.. Flowers suspended very gracefully from the apices of the pedi- 
cels. Calyx green, persisting, spreading previous to the fall of the 
flower, afterwards connivent over the germen. Corolla (an inch 
and a quarter long above, an inch and a half below) campanulate, ven- 
tricose_ below, compressed laterally, glanduloso-pubescent externally, 
and there of a brilliant red colour, except a broad yellow stripe along 
the lower side ; on the inside, yellow, glabrous, and sprinkled with red 
spots which are largest on the inside of the lower part of the tube, 
smaller and more crowded on the limb, of which the lobes are sub- 
patent, blunt, unequal, the two lateral ones being rather the largest, 
om the two upper the smallest, and least yellow. Stamens arising 
} ‘us the cartilaginous base of the corolla, included; anthers oblong, 
cells being in front of a broad, cartilaginous connective, and becom- 
 co-herent as in the Genus; pollen white, granules very minute ; 
abortive filament short and subulate. Pistil as Tai as the upper lip; 
stigma concave, compressed dorsally, villous on the outside ; style 
_ Stout, pubescent, filiform ; germen pubescent, half-superior, this upper 
ae being surrounded at its base by the erect, lobed edge of a thin, 
nite disk ; ovules numerous. Graham. 
sti 
a 
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Fig. 1. Stamens. 2. Pistil. 3. Annular Gland upon the Ovary. 
