( 3612 ) 
GesneriA Dovucuasit; 6. verticellata. Mr. 
DovuGcLas’ GeEsNERIA; whorled var. 
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Class and Order. 
DipynamiA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—GesnerizE. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx 5-partitus (plerumque germini adnatus). Corolla 
tubuloso-campanulata, limbo bilabiato ; labio superiore bi- 
inferiore trifido. Stigma bilobum. Capsula bilocularis, 2- 
valvis, placentis parietalibus. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Gesneria Douglasii; herbacea, radice tuberosa, foliis in 
medio caulis verticillatis ovatis crenatis, cyma termi- 
nali umbellata pedunculata, corollz limbo subequali, 
glandulis duabus superioribus dilatatis, inferioribus 
obliteratis. 
Gesneria Douglasii. Lindl. in Hort. Trans. v.71. gusd. in 
Bot. Reg. t. 1110. 
Gesneria verticillata. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2776. _ 
(8.) verticillata ; pedunculis subsimplicibus densissime ver- 
ticillatis. (Tas. nostr. 3612.) 
Our former figure of this plant, under the name of Grs- 
NERIA verticillata, from the first plant that flowered with us, 
gave no idea of the beauty of this plant: but the present 
variety exhibits it in the highest degree of perfection. The 
tubers were imported by Mr. Auicarp from Rio, and the 
noble specimen here exhibited blossomed in that gentle- 
man’s collection in April, 1836. In Professor LixpLey’s 
plant the inflorescence is a decided panicle. In ours, the 
peduncles, generally simple, are arranged in dense whorls, 
many of them quite simple, the others very slightly branch- 
ed, and only near the base. The flowers too are larger than 
in that figure, and more inclining to a purple tint. 
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