Tak 87872. 
SINNINGIA Reerna. 
Brazil. 
GESNERIACEAE. Tribe GESNERJEAE. 
Suyninaia, Nees; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1004. 
Sinningia Regina, Sprague in Gard. Chron. 1904, vol. xxxvi. p. 87; affinis 
S. speciosae, Hiern, a qua foliis subtus purpureis, calycis lobis minus 
acuminatis corollaeque forma recedit; aspectu S: discolori, Sprague 
(Gloxiniae discolori, Deene), similis, sed indumento, calyce, corolla, glan- 
dulis diversis, 7 3 
Herba carnosula, tubere crasso, caule erecto pubescente purpureo circiter 
15 em. longo, foliorum paribus 4-6. Folia ovata vel elliptico-ovata, basi 
auriculato-cordata, apice obtusiuscula, crenata, 10-22 cm. longa, 6-18 cm. 
lata, supra subtiliter velutina, in venis albo-variegata, subtus minute 
puberula, purpurea. Pedunculi 4-6 in axillis superioribus una orti, 
8-10 cm. longi, patenter hirsuti.. Flores penduli. Ca/lycis lobi patentes, 
ovato-lanceolati, 1-5-2 em. longi. Corolla violacea, intus antice pallide 
flavescens et purpureo-guttata; tubus 4-5 em. longus, supra basin leviter 
contractus, dein ampliatus, antice ventricosus; lobi patuli, 1 cm. longi, 
ultra L em. lati. Stamina inclusa, antheris connatis, lobis haud confluen- 
tibus. Disci glandulae 5, oblongae, 2 posticae ceteris crassiores. Ovariwm 
dense villosum.—Gesneria Regina, Hort. ex Sprague, Le. 
Sinningia Regina resembles S. discolor in the colour of 
its foliage and flowers, but is more closely allied to S. speciosa, 
the wild ancestor of our modern “ Gloxinias.” Nothing is 
known of its habitat, except that it was introduced from 
Brazil. S. speciosa, however, grows on rocks by the sea- 
shore in the State of Rio de Janeiro, according to Gardner, 
Travels in Brazil, edition 2, p. 22; and Gardner’s No. 184 
in the Kew Herbarium was found “on rocky places in 
woods in the Rio Comprido valley” near the town of Rio 
de Janeiro. SS. speciosa is recorded also from the Organ 
Mountains and from Pernambuco, whilst S. discolor is known 
only from the rocky banks of the river Macahé, in the State 
of Rio de Janeiro, where it was collected by Riedel. See 
Martius, Flora Brasiliensis, vol. viii. pars 1, pp. 388-389. 
DerscriPtion.—Stem erect, about 6 in. long, springing 
from a stout tuber, and bearing from 4 to 6 pairs of leaves. 
Marcu, 1908. 
