Tas. 5070. 
GESNERIA Donx.aru. 
Donklar’s Gesneria. 
Nat. Ord. Gesnertacez.—DipyNaMIa GYMNOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4217.) 
Gesnerta Donklarii ; elata ubique velutino-pubescens, foliis inferioribus amplis 
cordato-rotundatis acutis duplicato-crenatis, superioribus sensim minoribus 
ovatis acutis serratis omnibus petiolatis reticulatim venosis subtus purpu- 
reis, paniculis pyramidatis multifloris, pedunculis plerisque trifloris, pedi- 
cellis elongatis, floribus nutantibus, segmentis calycinis lanceolato-subulatis 
patentibus, corolle (coccinez) tubo elongato paululum curvato inflatoque, 
limbo subregulari 5-lobo fauce aperta, staminibus styloque inclusis. 
Gesnerra Donklarii. Hort. 
One of the handsomest of Gesneriaceous plants now in culti- 
vation in our stoves. We are enabled to figure this plant from 
the rich collection of Messrs. Veitch and Son’s Nurseries of os 
Exeter and Chelsea, where it flowered in June of the present 
year. It is probably a native of Columbia, a region so. rich in 
species of this genus, but at present we only know the plant in 3 
a state of cultivation. If the colours of the flowers are not so — 
bright as those of many species of the genus, their size, and 
the fine velvety foliage, dark-green on the upper surface, purple 
beneath, amply compensate for that imperfection, = 
Descr. Plant a foot and a half to two feet high in its perfect 
flowering state, and then forming a pyramidal outline; the deaves 
below very large, gradually smaller upwards, and they become 
converted into bracts at the bases of the pseudo-whorls of the 
Panicle. Stem stout, dark-purple throughout. Lower leaves a 
span long, rotundate- or orbicular-cordate, acute, the margin 
doubly crenate ; upper ones gradually smaller, ovate, rae 
acuminate, rather coarsely serrated: all of them downy an 
velutinous, strongly reticulato-venose, petiolate, dark uniform 
Steen above, purple beneath. Panicle terminal, large, erect, 
many-flowered ; peduncles, the lower ones at least, bearing three 
flowers on long erecto-patent, dark-purple, downy pedicels, brac- 
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