about half a foot long, bearing a single erect flower, and 
three or four lanceolate Jeaves, with a glabrous rather 
glaucous surface and obscurely ciliated margins, the lowest 
and largest in the cultivated specimens about four inches long 
and an inch and a half broad. Pedunele erect, puberulent, 
three or four inches long, Perianth yellow or bright red with 
a yellow throat, funnel-shaped, with more spreading segments 
than in Gesneriana, an inch long in the wild, nearly two inches 
in the cultivated specimens, all the segments similar, oblong, 
obtuse. Stamens half as long as the perianth ; anthers lemon- 
yellow, longer than the glabrous filaments. Ovary cylindrico- 
trigonous, nearly as long as the stamens ; stigmas middle- 
sized, a little broader than the diameter of the ovary.— 
J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, First view of a stamen; 2, back view of the same—enlarged. 
