given to other tropical gesneriads and flowered at Kew in 
April. There are other Gesnerias with flowers of the same 
shape, colour and arrangement as C. macropodum, but none 
of those in cultivation have the remarkable bifoliate stems 
which characterise this species.—W. Warson. 
Fig. 1, calyx and pistil; 2, base of corolla-tube laid open; 3, anthers; 
4, ovary; 5, whole plant :—1-4 enlarged, 5, much reduced. 
