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COLUMNEA SCHIEDEANA. Mr. ScHIEDE*S 

 COLUMNEA. 



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Class and Order, 



DlDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



( Nat. Ord. — Gesneriace^e. ) 



Generic Character. 



Calyx llher, 5-partitus. Corolla tubulosa, rectiuscula, 

 basi postice gibba, ringens, lobo superiore erecto fornicator 

 inferiore tritido patente. Stamina 4 didynama, antheris 

 connexis, qulnti postici rudimentum. Glandular I — 5 circa 

 basin ovarii. Bacca 1-locularis, placentis 2 parietalibus 

 bilobis. Semina oblonga. — Prutices Americani Jlexiles erec- 

 ti aut scandentes. Folia opposita brevi-petiolata crassius- 

 cula subserrata, hirsuta velpubescentia. Pedunculi axillares 

 solitarii aut conferti. Corolla? coccinea. D C. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Colurinea* Schiedeana; sericeo-villosa, caulibus simplici- 

 bus, foliis oblonsro-lanceolatis intea:errimis v. lasviter 

 serratis brevi-petiolatis, calycis lobis deltoideo-lanceo- 

 latis patentibus integris v. hie illic serratis, corollis 

 maculatis villosis. 



Columnea Schiedeana. Schlecht. in Linncea, v. 8. p. 249. 

 De Cand. Prodr. 7. p. 542. 



If this cannot be called a handsome plant, it is, at any 

 rate, a very striking and remarkable one. The flowers are 



numerous, 



* So named in compliment to Fabius Columna, a Botanist of the six- 

 teenth century, whom Halleb commends as a reviver and improver of 

 the study of Botany, for the light he threw on many obscure passages in 

 DroscoRiDES, and for the number of plants not before known, which he 

 described. 



