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RyYTIDOPHYLLUM AURICULATUM. AuRICcU- 
LATED RyTIDOPHYLLUM. 
Class and Order. 
DipynamMiA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
( Nat. Ord. —GeEsNERIACEZ. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx ovario toto adnatus, limbo quinquedentato-fidove. 
Corolla supera, campanulata, medio constricta, limbo quin- 
quelobo. Stamina quatuor didynama: cum quinti postici 
rudimento. Anthere libere aut anisogenee coherentes. 
Jiscus epigynus, crassus, annularis, sinuosus. Capsula 
sicca, cum calyce subquinquecostato connata, vertice plano 
bivalvis, placentis duabus parietalibus, polysperma, semin- 
ibus fusiformibus.—Arbuscule aut frutices, radicibus Jfibro- 
sts, ramis alternis sparsisve hirtis, foliis stipulatis breviter 
petiolatis sparsis, subtus insigniter hirtis, parenchymate m 
Superiore pagina in bullas parvas apice pilum ferentes ele- 
vato. Flores cymosi in pedunculis ex supremis foliorum alis 
veredes, unicolores aut sanguineo-punctati (aut unicolores 
sanguinei ?) Mart. | 
Specific Name and Character. 
Rytopnyttum * auriculatum ; foliis lato-lanceolatis obli- 
que subfaleatis crenatis basi utrinque auriculatis ses- 
silibus. 
—en 
The learned Martius has, I think with justice, separated 
from Gesneria, G. tomentosa, L., G. grandis, Sw., and G. 
scabra, all West Indian species, readily dito 
eir 
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* From pursc, os, wrinkle, and @uaroy, a leaf, from the rough, or wrinkled, 
of the upper side of the foliage. 
