Tas. 5115. 
GESNERIA purPUREA. 
Purple-flowered Gesneria. 
Nat. Ord. GESNERIACEX®.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen, Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4217.) 
GESNERIA purpurea; herbacea molliter velutino-pubescens, caule simplici inferne 
nudo, foliis verticillatis cordato-ovatis grosse serratis, pedunculis copiosis 
axillaribus terminalibusque verticillatis simplicibus rarius prope basin divi- 
sis, floribus nutantibus, calycis parvi dentibus seu laciniis brevibus erectis 
angusto-triangularibus, corolle elongate tubuloso-infundibuliformis roseo- 
purpureze maculatz subclavate tubo lateraliter compresso basi 5-saccato, 
limbo subsqualiter 5-lobo, lobis erecto-patulis superiore bifido, glandulis 
hypogynis 2 ovatis. 
GESNERIA purpurea. Pazt. and Lindl. Fl. Gard. n. 4. t. 78. 
GesneRta verticillata. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2776, @ weak and imperfect specimen 
(not Cav.). 
Gesnerta Douglasii, (var. verticillata.) Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3612. Hensl. im 
Maund’s Botanist, 5. t. 247, not G. Douglasii, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1110 
(from which the syn. D. verticillata, Hook, should be eacluded), nor of Lodd. 
Bot. Cab. t. 1939, nor Van Houtte, Fl. des Serres, t. 10. t. 1009. 
Dircmo-GEsNERIA purpurea. Planch. in Van Houtte, Fl. des Serres, t. 1046. 
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Notwithstanding that the ‘Botanical Magazine ’ exhibits two — 
figures of this species of Gesneria already, yet I venture to give © 
a third ; firstly, because this fine variety richly deserves a place ; 
secondly, because it gives an opportunity of correcting errors of 
my own, and, as I conceive, those of my friends also, who have | 
treated on this plant. The first appearance of it in the ‘ Maga- 
zine’ is at Tab. 2776, under the name of Gesneria verticillata, 
from a very weak plant, with only two terminal flowers, which the 
late Mrs. Arnold Harrison received from hills about Rio Janeiro. 
The previous year, namely, in 1826, Dr. Lindley had named, 
what he was afterwards led to consider the same plant, G. Dou- 
glasii ;—the name of G. verticillata, too, having been previously 
occupied by a plant of Cavanilles. This plant of Lindley is well 
figured in Bot. Reg. t. 1110; and since by Van Houtte and 
Loddiges, under the correct name of Douglasit. A remarkably 
fine specimen of my G. verticillata, imported by Mr. Alleard, from 
MAY Ist, 1859. ; 
