Tas. 5036. 
GESNERIA cInNABARINA. 
Cinnabar-flowered Gesneria. 
Nat. Ord. GusNERIACE®.—DipyNaMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4217.) 
Gesnerra (§ Negelia) cinnabarina; tota molliter glanduloso-pubescens, caule 
erecto, foliis cordato-rotundatis duplicato-crenatis purpureo-variegatis, panl- 
cula- terminali elongata multiflora, bracteis linearibus oblongisve integris 
lobatisve, pedicellis elongatis, calycis parvi lobis lato-subulatis patentibus, 
corolla rubra subtus albo-fasciata usque ad basin ventricosa, limbi lobis 
brevibus rotundatis, labio inferiore patente, ovario patente, disco annulari 
subintegro. 
Na&GELIa cinnabarina. Linden, Suppl. de Cat. des Pl. Exot. du Jard. de Brus. 
1856 (figure only, unaccompanied by description.) - 
The Gesneriacee of the Royal Garden and Herbarium of Berlin 
alone, have furnished to Dr. Hansteen materials for a memoir on 
the family, which he divides into 2 tribes, 12 sub-tribes, and 68 
genera: how far it might be desirable to consider many of these 
68 sections as sub-genera rather than genera, Tam not in a 
position to say. The present plant, together with the well-known 
Gesneria zebrina, would fallinto his genus Vegelia of his tribe 1, 
Gesneree, and 3rd sub-tribe, Brachylomatee, and 1s distinguished 
by “Corolla oblique adnata, tubo ventre inflato, dorso recto, 
limbo inzequaliter quinquelobo, fauce late hiante. _Annulus perl- 
gynus quinquecrenatus. Stigma capitatum. Reliqua ut in Ges- 
neria.”” So very much does the present species resemble the 
_ well-known Gesneria zebrina (figured. by us at Tab. 3940), that 
it might easily be passed by as a variety of that plant, and in 
habit, size, pubescence (soft and velvety), shape of the leaves, 
and inflorescence, that our full description given under that Tab., 
may well enable us to dispense with a repetition here. The sole 
difference is the flowers: yet even these are liable to some varia- 
tion. The calyx here has acuminated almost subulate lobes, 
MARCH Ist, 1858. 
