Tas. 4242. 
GESNERIA exuiptica; Var. lutea. 
Elliptic-leaved Gesneria ; yellow variety. 
Nat. Ord. GesNERIACER.—DipyNaMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4217.) 
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GuESNERIA elliptica ; pubescenti-velutina, foliis ellipticis rugosis crenato-serratis, 
inferioribus petiolatis superioribus sensim minoribus sessilibus, pedunculis 
terminalibus racemosis axillaribusque solitariis, ealycis lobis acutis, corolle 
tubo basi 5-gibboso superne sensim ampliato, ore oblique bilabiato, labio 
superiore minore recto bilobo, inferiore 3-lobo dependente lobis rotundatis, 
glandulis hypogynis 4 quorum unico magno reliquis parvis linearibus, stylo 
subincluso. 
a. corollis rubris vel lateritiis. 
8. corollis flavis. Tab. nostr. 4242. 
We have here the pleasure of figuring another Gesneria, one 
of the results of Mr. Purdie’s mission to the mountains of St. 
Martha, New Grenada. he flowers of this species, however, 
exhibit much variation in hue, and we have chosen the most 
unusual of these colours in the genus, namely, the yellow. Others 
are brick-coloured, and some bright red. All are graceful in 
their growth and handsome in their blossoms. As a species it 
will rank near G. rutila, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1158, and especially 
that variety of it afterwards given at t.1279 of the same work 
and called var. atrosanguinea; but the shape of the upper part 
of the corolla and the relative size of the lips afford distinguishing 
characters. It flowers in a warm moist stove in May, and 
through most of the summer months. : 
Dusc. Stem herbaceous, nearly terete, clothed, as is almost 
every part of the plant, with a short and soft hair-like pubescence. 
eaves opposite, elliptical, obtuse, crenato-serrate, somewhat 
cuneate at the base; the lower ones petiolate, upper ones sessile 
and gradually passing into small leaf-lke bracteas, situated 
among the terminal flowers. FYowers forming a handsome 
raceme at the extremity of the stem or branches, pedicels opposite, 
bracteated, but in the lower pair or pairs the bracteas are so 
JULY Ist, 1846, 
