be identical with the original plant. In addition to the syno- 
nymes above quoted we were almost disposed to add the G. 
Pichinchensis, Bentham, and G. rufescens, De Cand.; but the 
clothing of the young stems is different, though variable. The 
greater or lesser breadth of the leaves, and the permanent or 
fugacious hairs of the different parts of the plant, are exceedingly 
uncertain characters. 
Dzxscr. A low bushy, rigid, handsome, greenhouse shrub with 
prostrate dranches as seen in the plants at Kew and at Syon 
Gardens (where our drawing was made), these branches more or 
less hispid, the setze generally mixed with glandular hairs in the 
younger portions of the plant. Zeaves alternate, ovate or oblong 
or cordate, with a glandular mucro at the point, minutely serrated, 
penniveined and reticulated (more conspicuously beneath), gene- 
rally glabrous above, the serratures ciliated or tipped with hairs 
which are often deciduous: beneath glabrous or hairy, with sete 
about the base and mid-rib. Racemes axillary and terminal, 
simple, solitary: the flowers secund, rose-colour, as are the 
calyx and large bracteas: all these, as well as the short bi- 
bracteolated pedicels, are more or less hairy and more or less 
glandular. Calyx lax, cut deeply into five rather patent, acu- 
minated, triangular lobes. Corolla thrice as long as the calyx: 
conical-ovate, with five rather small ovate spreading segments of 
the limb. Stamens: filaments subulate, hairy. Anther-cells 
with two short horns. Ovary depressed, downy, five-lobed. 
Style columnar : stigma obtuse. W. J. H. 
Curr. From the elevated regions of New Grenada, and as it 
grows under the same influences as regards climate, and partakes 
of the nature of Bejaria coarctata (Tab. 4433), the remarks 
there given are applicable to this species. It should be grown 
in light peat soil, and kept in a cool airy pit or frame during 
winter, and in summer should not be exposed too freely to the 
sun in hot weather. As it is also found in the more elevated 
region of Quito, it may probably prove more hardy than we at 
present anticipate. /. 8. 
Fig. 1. Flower, bractea, and bracteoles. 2. Variety of the same. 3. Stamen. 
4. Pistil :-—magnified. 
