_. trived to escape from th 
Tas. 5009. 
-UROSKINNERA spPEcTaBILIs. 
Showy Uroskinnera. 
Nat. Ord. ScROPHULARINE%.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. URosKINNERA, Lindl,— Mistivatio imbricato-bilabiata. Caly« cya- 
thiformis, 4-dentatus. Corolla et stamina Pentstemonis. Stylus planus, stigmate 
furcato. Capsula calyce arctissime vestita, loculicido-dehiscens. Semina scro- 
biculata, membrana cincta.—Herba, facie Gesnere ; floribus spicatis, violaceis. 
Lindt. 
UROSKINNERA spectabilis. 
Uroskrwnera spectabilis. Lindl. in Garden. Chron. for Jan. 1857, p. 36, 6. 
This remarkable plant, constituting a new genus, was intro; 
duced to our gardens by the Horticultural Society ; and Tcan- 
not do better than copy Dr. Lindley’s excellent description and 
remarks above referred to. 
“For this beautiful plant our gardens are indebted to G. U. 
Skinner, Esq., the most generous of merchants, the most eager 
of collectors, to whom or to whose assistance the botany of 
Western Mexico and Guatemala owes more than to all the tra- 
vellers who have visited those regions. Nothing more worthy 
of his name could well be found, for the plant is very rare, very 
showy, and now secured to our gardens ; we therefore trust that 
verbal pedants will not quarrel with the manner we have con- 
e difficulty of there being already a 
Skinneria in the botanical field, but agree with us that Ure 
_ Skinner may be fairly blended into a name which shall unmis- 
takably record the labours of one who ought never to be con- 
founded with any other Skinner whatever.” 
Descr. “It forms a soft, stout, erect, herbaceous plant, \ook- 
‘ing like some Gesnera, and grey with close hairs. In drying 1t 
becomes a very dark brown. The leaves are oblong, toothed, 
ked, from two to four inches long. The flowers appeat in. 
ile, terminal, very close spikes, about three inches long, and 
- OCTOBER Ist, 1857. 
