Tas. 4390. 
EPISCIA sicotor. 
Two-coloured Episcia. 
Nat. Ord. GesNERIACER.—DIpYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMLIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx liber 5-phyllus seu 5-partitus. Corolla infundibuliformis, 
tubo rectiusculo basi postice gibbo, limbo 5-lobo. Stamina 4 didynama eum 
quinti postici rudimento e basi tubi. Annulus hypogynus in glandulam posticam 
tumens. Stigma bilamellatum. Capsula subglobosa membranacea bivalvis, 
placentis 2 parietalibus bilamellatis. Semina «© oblonga.—Herbe Americane 
_ molles decumbentes radicantes. Folia petiolata venis anastomosantibus percursa. 
Flores azillares solitarii v. cymosuli et bracteati. DC. 
ee Be mers pbiscinssernCiinaean 
Errscra Aicolor; hirsuta humilis decumbens, foliis petiolatis cordato-ovatis 
acutis grosse serratis impresse venosis, pedunculis petiolos subaquantibus 
axillaribus simplicibus v. bi-trifidis gracilibus hirsutis, sepalis lineari-lanceo- 
latis apice recurvis, corollee tubo calyce duplo longiore, ore obliquo, limbo 
subeequaliter 5-lobo, lobis rotundatis, ovario superne hirsuto. 
A very pretty Gesneriaceous plant, raised from seeds sent 
trom New Grenada by our collector, Mr. Purdie. It blooms 
in the stove, and continues throwing up flowers for several 
weeks in succession, many growing together among the ample 
dark foliage, and of white colour, bordered with purple.’ It 
seeins sufficiently to accord with the character of the genus 
Fpiscia, to warrant us in placing it there. 
Drscr. A perennial herbaceous and somewhat creeping, as 
well as procumbent plant, with very short hairy stems. Leaves : 
large, hairy, between ovate and cordate, spreading, somewhat 
glossy, acute, with large serratures all round, penninerved and 
coarsely reticulated, the nerves impressed. Pefioles short, hairy. 
Peduncles from the axils of the leaves and scarcely longer than 
the petioles, simple or bi-trifid and bracteated, slender, hairy, 
or rather hispid. FYowers erect, or inclined. Calya hairy, 
deeply cleft into five nearly erect, linear-lanceolate sepa/s, recurved 
at the apex. Corolla with the tube rather short, white, gibbous 
on one side at the base, dilated above, tumid beneath, within 
spotted with purple, the mouth oblique; the /mé rather large, 
AUGUST Ist, 1848. 
