‘Tas. 4531. 
HYPOCYRTA Gracitts. 
Slender LHypocyrta. 
Nat. Ord. GesNERACE®.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx liber, profunde quinquepartitus. Corolla infera, tubulosa, 
basi postice gibba, tubo antice ventricoso, limbo quinquelobo aut quinquedentato 
subzequali. Stamina 4, didynama, cum quinti postici rudimento ex ima basi tubi. 
Anthere per paria coherentes. Annulus hypogynus et glandula postica. Bacea 
globosa, succosa (colorata), unilocularis, seminidus pluribus in placentis duabus 
parietalibus bilobis. Afar. 
Hypocyrta gracilis; ramis inordinatim adscendentibus passim radicantibus 
laxis, epidermide nitida, foliis breviter petiolatis ovatis acutis margine 
passim subundulato-denticulatis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis aut geminis, _ 
corollis subcampanulato-tubulosis, lobis rotundatis patentibus. Mart. . 
Hypocyrta gracilis. Mart. Nov. Gen. et Sp. Plant. Brazil. v. 3. p. 50. t. 219. 
A very pretty creeping Gesneraceous stove-plant, imported 
from the Organ Mountains, Brazil, by Messrs. Backhouse of the 
York Nursery, and obligingly sent by them in April 1850. 
There can be little doubt of the plant being identical with the 
Hypocyrta described and figured by Dr. von Martius, /.c., though © 
his figure, made probably from dried specimens shrunk in the 
act of drying, gives the appearance of a more s/ender plant than 
ours is :—even ours has a much less robust habit than the other 
species of Hypocyrta described by Von Martius. That author 
constitutes two divisions of his five species: the one “ Codo- 
nanthe, corolle tubo subcampanulato inque latere antico parum 
ventricosiore, limbo latiusculo,” and “ Oncogastra, tubo deorsum 
valde gibboso-ventricoso, limbo breviter dentato erecto.” Our 
plant belongs to the first section. ks 
Duscr. Plant minutely pubescent, evidently procumbent and 
creeping, although, as Martius describes it, sometimes bearing 
ascending shoots. Stem branched, terete, purplish-brown, 
rooting from below the insertion of the leaves. Leaves on short 
petioles, opposite, thick, fleshy, ovate, subacute, dark green and .— 
AuGausT Ist, 1850. 
