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Hypocyrta strigillosa. Rough-leaved 

 Hypocyrta. 



Class and Order. 



DlDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



( Nat. Ord. — Gesneriace,e. ) 



Generic Character. 



Calyx liber profunde 5-partitus, lobis lanceolatis integer- 

 rimis. Corolla tubulosa basi postice gibba, tubo antice 

 ventricoso, limbo 5-lobo aut 5-dentato subasquali. Stamina 

 4 didynama cum quinti postici rudimento ex ima basi tubi. 

 Antherce per paria cohaerentes. Annulus hypogynus et 

 glandula postica. Stigma bilobum aut infundibuliforrne 

 indivisum. Bacca globosa succosa 1-locularis placeutis 2 

 parietalibus bilobis. Semina oo oblonga aut ovata. — Fru- 

 ticuli Brasilienses extensi et radicantes, rariiis erecti. Fo- 

 lia opposita crassiuscula. Flores axillares solitarii aut 

 aggregati. Corollae coccinecc rosea albce aut ochroleucce. 

 D C. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Hypocyrta* strigillosa; caule erectiusculo supeme villoso, 

 foliis breviter petiolatis oblongis acuminatis mucronu- 

 latis strigillosis, floribus axillaribus solitariis, corollis 

 antice grosse ventricosis, limbo contracto 5-dentato. 

 Mart. 



Hypocyrta strigillosa. Mart. Nov. Gen. et Sp. Bras. v. 3. 

 p. 52. De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 541. 



Brazil is eminently rich in plants of the family of Gesne- 

 riace^e. We have lately figured a species of Martius' new 



Genus 



* So named by Martius, from vxa, beneath, and «wro«, gibbous, in con- 

 sequence of the remarkable inflation, or gibbosity, of the underside of the 

 corolla. 



