Tas. 4504. 
GESNERIA SgrEMANNI. 
ie 
Mr. Seemann’s Gesneria. 
Nat. Ord. GesNERIACE®.—DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA, 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4217.) 
GESNERIA Seemanni; elata hirsuta herbacea, foliis oppositis ternatisve sublonge 
petiolatis late ovatis obovatisve acutis grosse serratis, superioribus multo 
minoribus magis acuminatis omnibus basi obtusis, pedunculis unifloris 
fasciculatis ad axillas foliorum supremorum verticillatis petiolo longioribus 
in racemum longum terminalem dispositis, corolla villosissime lateritie 
tubo brevi-cylindraceo, limbi glanduloso-hirsuti equalis patentissimi lobis 
patentibus subrotundatis maculatis, staminibus styloque inclusis, ovario 
hirsutissimo, glandulis hypogynis 4—5 latis, unico bifido. 
A very handsome copious-flowering and _bright-coloured 
species of Gesneria, quite new, as far as I can find: but 
approaching nearest 1o G. longifolia, Lind. Bot. Reg. 1842, 
tab. 40, but differing much in the form of the leaves, and in 
the limb of the corolla. It was discovered by Mr. Seemann, at 
Panama, and I have thought it rving of bearing the name of 
its discoverer, who sent roots to the R oyal Gardens of Kew, in 
1848. ‘The flowering plants were produced in October 1549. 
Descr. Roots tuberous, I believe, but these I had not the 
opportunity of inspecting. Stem two feet or more high, simple, 
rather stout below, nearly terete, villous with spreading hairs, 
as is almost every part of the plant. Leaves opposite and ter- 
nate, the lower ones large, broadly ovate or subobovate, on 
rather long petioles, coarsely serrate, acute, rather than acumi- 
nate; upper ones gradually. smaller and more tapering to a 
point, all obtuse at the base. From the whorls of the upper 
floral leaves, the hairy peduncles appear fasciculato-verticillate, 
longer than the petioles, and the uppermost ones longer even 
than the leaves, single-flowered.  Calya shallow, cup-shaped, 
with five nearly regular, acute, spreading lobes. Corolla very 
villous, bright ‘brick-red, a little inclining to orange. Tide 
APRIL 1srt, 1850. B2 
