Tas. 4611. 
CENTROSOLENIA picra. 
Painted-leaved Centrosolenia. 
Nat. Ord. GESNERIACEZ.—DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4552.) 
CENTROSOLENIA picta ; foliis subzequalibus ovalibus obovatisve vélutinis pictis 
(junioribus preecipue) crenato-serratis longe petiolatis, corolle hirsutee lobis 
obscure crenatis, staminum filamentis apice longe hirsutis. 
Sent by Mr. Spruce, from the banks of the Amazon, to the 
Royal Gardens of Kew. It is remarkable for its beautifully 
painted, blotched or mottled leaves. Its flowers are large and. 
white, destitute of the long fringe to the limb so characteristic 
of our C. glabra (Tab. 4552), and the opposite leaves are here 
nearly equal in size. 
Descr. A procumbent and creeping plant, growing in-dense 
tufts. Stems branched, cylindrical, fleshy, downy. Leaves op- 
posite, on long, terete footstalks, oval or obovate, rather fleshy, 
crenato-serrate, unequal in size, hirsutely velvety on both sides, 
penninerved and reticulated, the zerves very prominent beneath ; 
above, many of the leaves are blotched with brown and paler 
green. Peduncles axillary, clustered, single-flowered, bracteated, 
shorter than the calyx. Bracteas linear, acuminate. Calyx 
deeply five-partite, the segments lanceolate, acuminate, inciso- 
serrate, much shorter than the corolla. Corolla hirsute, large, 
white : the we elongated, infundibuliform, running down at the 
base into a blunt spur: Zmé of five, spreading, rounded /odes, 
obscurely crenated at the margin. Stamens four, didynamous, — 
included ; filaments subulato-filiform, united into a membrane 
below, above clothed with long spreading hairs; anthers sub- : 
globose. Ovary oblong-ovate, somewhat curved, with two oppo- 
site glands at the base: one larger than the other and ovate. 
Style elongated, stout, columnar, downy : stigma somewhat capi- 
tate, notched. W. J. H. Ce —. ee 
Cunt. A native of tropical America, and, like its allies, of a 
NOVEMBER lst, 1851. 
