their somewhat arborescent or shrubby stems, fibrous roots, 
pedunculated cymes, scattered leaves, with the parenchyme 
singularly wrinkled on the upper surface, each little promi- 
nence surmounted with a hair or papilla, to which characters 
that author adds the presence of stipules. To this groupe 
our present plant certainly belongs, although I can find 
no trace of stipules. From all the previously described 
species, it is known by its entirely sessile and auriculated 
leaves. Seeds of it were brought to Mr. Murray by the 
mate of a vessel from Rio Janeiro: but as no species of the 
Genus has been described as an inhabitant of Brazil, it is 
probable that it came originally from some of the West 
India Islands. The figure of Gesneria grandis given in the 
Nouv. Dict. des Sciences at first sight much resembles this ; 
but it will be seen that the leaves are petiolated, and that 
there are two heart-shaped stipules at the base ; the flowers 
too, are of a very different colour. Our plant flowered in 
Noy. 1836. 
Descr. Stem, in our plants, three and five feet high, but 
little branched, densely woolly. Leaves a foot and more 
long in the older plants, broadly lanceolate, somewhat 
obliquely falcate, crenato-serrated, sessile, auriculated at 
the base, very wrinkled and bullate above and downy, deep 
green, beneath paler and more downy, beautifully reticulat- 
ed with nerves, having very depressed areola. Peduncles as 
long as the leaves, erect, downy, bearing a di- trichotomous 
cyme. Calyx hairy, five-fid, the tube adhering to the ger- 
men: the segments acuminate, spreading. Corolla yellow- 
green and silky externally, within yellow, spotted with red, 
tubular: the tube short, curved: the Limb spreading, with 
five rather acute lobes. Stamens curved, with the anthers 
connate. Germen wholly inferior ; the apex surrounded 
by a five-lobed, fleshy disk. Style as long as the stamens: 
Stigma clavate, oblique. 
