Tab 4310 
HYPOCYRTA leucostoma. 
White-mouthed Hypocyrta. 
Nat. Ord. Gesneriace.®.—^Didynamia Angiospermia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx liber, profunde 5-partitus, lobis lanceolatis integerrimis. 
Corolla tubulosa, basi postice gibba, tubo antice ventricoso, limbo 5-lobo aut 5- 
dentato subaequali. Stamina 4 didynama cum quinti postici rudimento ex ima 
basi tubi. Antherce per paria cohserentes. Annulus hypogynus et glandula 
postica. Stigma bilobum aut infundibuliforme indivisum. Bacca globosa 
succosa 1-locularis, placentis 2 parietialibus bilobis. Semina oo oblonga aut 
ovata.—Fruticuli Brasili£nses extend et radicantes, rarius erecti. Folia opposita 
crassiuscula. Flores axillares solitarii aut aggregate. Corollse coccinea rosem 
albee aut ochroleucae. DC. 
Hypocyrta leucostoma ; erecta tota pubescenti-tomentosa, caule herbaceo ob¬ 
tuse tetragono, foliis oppositis petiolatis oblongo-lanceolatis insigniter 
rugosis crenato-sen-atis, pediceUis axiUaribus aggregatis petiolum sub- 
sequantibus, floribus nutantibus, coroUae subvillosse tubo aurantiaco latera- 
liter compresso antice sursum insigniter ventricoso dorso basi gibboso, ore 
contracto, limbi albi laciniis rotundatis subaequalibus. 
A Gesneriaceoiis plant, received by Mr. Purdie from New 
Grenada; and which I think I am not incorrect in referring 
to Martins’ genus Hypocyrta, the first extra-Brazilian species 
yet described. The genera of Gesneriacece may still, however, 
be said to be in a very unsettled state. It bears its pretty 
drooping axillary flowers in the moist stove in April. 
Descr. Plant about a foot high, erect, obtusely tetragonal, 
clothed in every part Avith a short copious but rather rigid 
covering of woolly hairs. Leaves on lateral compressed 
petioles, opposite, oblong, or subovato-lanceolate, acuminate, 
crenato-serrate, penninerved; the nerves united by closely 
interwoven reticulations, so as to give a nettle-like roughness 
to the surface (densely rugose). Petioles nearly half an inch 
long. Peduncles about the length of the petiole, axillary, erect, 
hairy, aggregated, simple, bearing each a solitary drooping 
flower. Calyx of five nearly equal, oblong, acute sepals. Corolla 
three quarters of an inch long: the tuhe shghtly hairy, tawny 
JULY 1st, 1847. H ^ 
