Tab. 4152 

 GESNERIA Schiedeana. 



Schiede's Gesneria. 



Nat. Ord. Gesneriace^e. — Didynamia Angiospermia. 



GESNERIA. L. (Vide supra Tab. 3995J De Cand. Prodr. 

 v. 7. p. 526. 



Gesneria Schiedeana; tota pubescenti-tomentosa, caule erecto suffruti- 

 coso, foliis terno- quaternove-verticillatis breviter petiolatis oblongo- 

 lanceolatis rugosis crenatis acutiusculis subtus tomentosis, pedunculis 

 aggregatis axillaribus 1 — 3-floris folio multo brevioribus, calyce turbi- 

 nato 5-lobo, corolla infundibuliformi-campanulata subtus ventricosa 

 tota velutino-villosissima, limbi brevis patentis lobis 5 subaequalibus, 

 ovario hirsutissimo basi nectariis 5, stylo brevi hirsute 



Gesneria spicata, p. Schiedeana. De Cand. Prodr. v. l.p. 531. 



This is another lovely addition to the many beautiful 

 Gesnerias now cultivated in our stoves. It was sent from 

 Woburn Abbey by Mr. Forbes, who received the roots from 

 Mexico. It quite agrees with the G. spicata, |3., of De 

 Candolle (also from Mexico), and seems different, as that 

 author suspected, from the original New Grenada G. spicata 

 of Humboldt, in which the inflorescence is more truly 

 spicate, the flowers smaller, and the corollas much less hairy. 

 Out species is remarkable for its richly-colored blossoms, 

 clothed with long, shaggy hairs ; their color, a bright-golden 

 scarlet; the limb variegated with red and yellow, the red 

 arranged in broken lines. It flowered at Woburn, in Novem- 

 ber, 1844. 



Descr. An erect-growing plant, apparently little branched, 

 with a rounded, tomentose stem, tinged with red. Leaves 

 generally in whorls of three, petiolate, spreading, or a little 

 reflexed, oblong, petiolate, somewhat acuminate, crenatc, 

 rather thick, rugose, soft and downy above, more reticu- 

 lated, paler and tomentose beneath: the lower leaves much 

 larger and broader. Flowers copious from the axils. Pedun- 

 cles aggregated, much shorter than the leaves, one or three- 



