Tas. 4952. 
CENTROSOLENIA cuasra. 
Glabrous-leaved Centrosolenia. 
Nat. Ord. GrsNERIACEX.—D1IDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus, segmentis serratis. Corolla tubulosa, basi postice 
calcarata, fauce parum ampliata, in limbum brevem latissime 5-lobum expansa. 
Stamina prope basin tubi inserta, didynama cum rudimento minuto quinti, in- 
clusa. Annulus hypogynus obscurus, glandula postica maxima. Ovarium ob- 
longo-conicum, hirsutum. Séylus apice dilatatus, subcapitato-stigmatosus. Frue- 
tus capsularis ? Benth. 
CenTROSOLENIA glabra; foliis disparibus, maximo oblique obovali-oblongo 
serrato costis subtus petiolisque pilosis exceptis glabro, opposito parvo lan- 
ceolato, corolla pubescentis lobis inferioribus longe fimbriatis. Benth. 
CENTROSOLENIA glabra. Benth. MSS. 
An interesting and rather handsome Gesneriaceous plant, 
imported by the Royal Gardens of Kew from La Guayra, 
through Mr. Wagener, a German collector, who has been long 
travelling in that country. It forms a stove-plant, and keeps up 
a succession of flowers with us through the autumnal and early 
winter months. We submitted the figure to Mr. Bentham for 
his opinion, as he has paid much attention to the family to 
which it belongs, and has published the results of his observa- 
tions in the 5th volume of the ‘London Journal of Botany,’ 
p. 357, &e. ‘That gentleman considers the plant as clearly con- 
stituting a second species of his new genus Centrosolenia (I. c. 
p. 362), and he has obligingly furnished the accompanying 
character and description. M. Decaisne’s genus 7richanthe, 
since published, probably in the ‘Revue Horticole,’ for 1548, 
he believes to be identical with Centrosolenia. If so, it must 
give place to the latter name, which appeared in 1846, and con- 
sequently has the right of priority. 
Dxescr. An erect plant, with a succulent, reddish-brown, 
terete stem, a foot or more high. eaves succulent, glabrous, 
the lower ones six to eight inches long, opposite, and each pair is 
singularly unequal in size :, one being small, lanceolate, and acu- 
DECEMBER Ist, 1850. 
