Tan. 4348. 
GESNERIA parprina. 
Leopard-spotted Gesneria. 
Nat. Ord. GEsNERIACE2.—D1pyNaMIA GYNOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4217.) 
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GESNERIA pardina; pubescens, caule erecto crasso subherbaceo tereti ramoso, 
foliis brevi-petiolatis ellipticis crassiusculis serratis oblique arcte penninerviis 
supra glabris subreticulatis subtus precipue reticulatim rugosis tomentosis, 
pedunculis axillaribus solitariis folio brevioribus, calycis tubo ovario adnato 
turbinato, laciniis amplis acuminatis patentibus, corolle tubo curvato sursum 
dilatato basi superne gibboso, ore obliquo, limbo subequali 5-lobo, lobis 
patentibus rotundatis, staminibus styloque exsertis. 
Drawn from plants in the Royal Gardens of Kew, which were 
received from Brazil through Mr. Gardner, who detected the 
species in the Organ Mountains. It is extremely different from 
any, either published, or, as I have reason to believe, culti- 
vated in our gardens: in general habit it resembles G. aggregata _ 
(Bot. Mag. tab. 2725), but is much handsomer, and the spotting 
reminds one of the flowers of G. Douglasii. It blossoms, in a 
moist stove, in October. : 
Drscr. Stem, with us, a foot and a half high, erect, rather 
stout, terete, brown, slightly downy above, branched. Leaves 
opposite, on short, rather stout petioles, patent, elliptical-acute, 
rather thick, fleshy, strongly serrated, downy above, most so 
beneath, strongly penninerved; the zerves oblique, closely 
placed, more or less united by transverse nervelets. Peduncle 
axillary, solitary, single-flowered, shorter than the leaves, thick- 
ening gradually upwards into the turbinate tube of the calyx, 
which is adherent with the lower part of the ovary: calyz- 
segments large, acuminate, spreading. Corolla an inch and a 
half or more long, ochrey-red, yellow within, spotted, especially 
the Zim and tube, internally with deep red. Zude curved, yellow, — 
and with a gibbosity at the base above, upwards the tube is 
gradually dilated: mouth oblique: limb of five nearly equal, — 
rounded, spreading segments. Stamens and style exserted: fila- 
JANUARY Ist, 1848. 
