Tas. 4213. 
GLOXINIA PALuipiIrLorRaA. 
Paleflowered Gloxinia. 
Nat. Ord. GesNERIACEH.—D1IpYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. Calycis tubus imo ovario adnatus, limbus 5-fidus aut 5-partitus. 
Corolla infundibuliformi- aut campanulato-subringens, hinc postice ad basin 
gibba, aut subcalcarata, tubo ventricoso, limbo patulo sub-bilabiato, lobis 5 rotun- 
datis. Stamina 4 didynama cum quinti rudimento. Anthere coherentes. Glan- 
dule 5 perigynze. Stylus in stigma orbiculatum concavum subinfundibuliforme 
abeuns. Capsula 1-locularis, bivalvis, placentis 2-parietalibus bilobis, seminibus 
numerosis oblongis.—Herbe aut suffrutices Australi-Americane, plereque Bra- 
silienses. Folia opposita, interdum radicalia, petiolata, crenata, Flores ampli, 
axillares aut radicales, pedicellati, sepius nutantes. DC. 
Gioxinia pallidiflora; caule erecto simplici immaculato, foliis latis suboblique 
ovatis hirsutulis obscure serratis supra pilosiusculis subtus pallidis con- 
coloribus, calycis segmentis linearibus patenti-reflexis, corolle lobis omnibus 
concavis. 
A comparison of this figure with Tab. 4212, given in this 
number, will show the dissimilarity of Glovinia and Sinningia ; 
while a comparison again with Tab. 1191, exhibits the difference 
of the present plant, as a species, from G. maculata, the original 
species on which the genus was founded. Our G. pallidiflora is 
of much more weak and slender habit; the leaves are thinner, 
pale, less serrated, and somewhat oblique at the base ; the petioles 
are generally longer, the stem spotless, the corolla smaller, pale- 
coloured, the lobes all concave (but not equally, the lowest, most 
so, but in itself less concave than the lower one of G. maculata), 
the gibbosity at the lower base of the corolla is greater; and, 
above all, the lobes of the calyx are much narrower and more re- 
curved. It was sent from Santa Martha by our collector Mr. 
Purdie, and flowered with us in Oct. 1845. Seen growing in 
the same stove with G. maculata, the differences are at once per- 
ceived, though they are not so easily defined in a few words. It 
increases by its curious, caterpillar-like tubers, in the same way — 
as Gloxinia maculata. 
Descr. Stem herbaceous, erect, obscurely four-angled, green, 
FEBRUARY lst, 1846. Y 
