Tas. 4217. 
GESNERIA Honpensis. 
Honda Gesneria. 
Nat. Ord. GESNERIACEZ.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx ovarii basi adnatus, limbo subinzqualiter 5-partito libero. 
Corolla tubulosa ima basi 5-gibberosa aut equaliter subtumida, limbo 5-lobo, 
lobis nunc in labia duo dispositis, nune subequalibus. Stamina 4 ime corolle 
adnata, didynama cum quinti rudimento. Anthere juniores coherentes. Stylus 
filiformis, stigmate capitato aut bilobo. Glandule perigyne 2-5 circa ovarii 
basin. Capsula hirsuta coriacea 1-locularis, 2-vavlis, valvis convexis placentis 
2-parietalibus polyspermis. Semina scobiformia—Herbe perennes radice tube- 
rosa, rarius frutices. Caulis simplew aut opposite ramosus. Folia opposita aut 
verticillata dentata. Pedunculi simplices uniflori aut ramosi multiflori, axillares 
aut in thyrsum racemumve terminalem dispositi. DC. 
GrsneERt1A Hondensis ; caule herbaceo erecto superne ramisque tetragonis, foliis 
oppositis ovatis subacuminatis serratis rugosis brevi-petiolatis subtus magis 
hirsutis, pedunculis solitariis geminatis ternisve petiolo triplo floreque lon- 
gioribus unifloris, calyce hemispherico dentibus acutis, corolla hirsuta 
tubuloso-ventricosa fauce contracta lobis equalibus patentibus glandulis, 
hypogynis 5. 
GesNeRr1a Hondensis, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. Am. v. 2. p. 395. ¢.190. De Cand. 
Prodr. v. 8. p. 530. 
A very handsome Gesneria, new to our gardens, discovered by 
Humboldt, at Honda, New Grenada. ‘Tubers were sent to the 
Royal Gardens of Kew by Mr. Purdie, early in 1845, one of them, 
from which the drawing is here made, flowered at Syon Gardens 
in December of the same year. ‘The rich scarlet of the flowers, 
yellow at the mouth, remind one of the well-known Manettia 
bicolor ; but here the red is due to the shaggy hair, altogether of 
that colour, with which the tube of the corolla is clothed for almost 
its whole length. It requires the same kind of treatment as 
other species of this fine genus; and it appears that, by a little 
management in forcing or retarding the tubers, they may be made 
to blossom at almost every season of the year. 
Descr. Roots tuberous ; stem erect, about a foot long, very 
leafy, subterete below, above and the dranches tetragonal, hairy. 
Leaves opposite, spreading, ovate, acute or subacuminate, serrate 
MARCH Ist, 1846, 
