membranaceis, bracteolis in medio aut basi pedicelh,”’ those num- 
bered from 22 to 37 inclusive, will be found too closely allied to 
our plant. G. dracteata, figured at our Tab. 4461, a native of 
New Grenada and even Mexico, has many points in common 
with it; nor should we be surprised if it prove the same as to 
species, less hairy in the flowers and pedicels, and having much 
broader, and indeed truly cordate leaves. Our flowering speci- 
mens were in perfection in June. It is a truly handsome plant, 
but will probably be found difficult to keep in cultivation, as are 
so many lofty Andine plants. 
Drscr. A small branching shrub, the younger dranches, and 
even the young leaves, the rachises of the racemes, and the 
pedicels, clothed generally with copious spreading rufous hairs, 
more or less mixed with glandular hairs. Leaves on very short 
petioles, almost sessile, ovate or oblong (as in our figure), but 
sometimes more tapering at the base, at other times almost cor- 
date there, serrated at the margin, the apex tipped with a callous 
point, the old ones generally quite glabrous, the less mature ones 
ciliated ; some are more or less hairy beneath, penninerved, sub- 
reticulated, most so beneath. Racemes terminal, and from the 
axils of the upper leaves, varying in length and in direction, usu- 
ally spreading, the pedicels secund, all pointing downwards, ra- 
ther long, the young ones covered with red imbricated bracteas, 
which are more distant as the raceme becomes more fully deve- 
_loped, and more or less clothed with deciduous hairs. Calyw 
ample, deeply cut into five moderately spreading hairy lobes. 
Corolla large for the size of the plant, urceolate ; the mouth con- 
tracted, five-toothed. Stamens ten. Filaments subulate, clothed 
with spreading hairs. Anthers opening by pores at the apex, 
each cell bearing two erect awns, nearly as long as themselves. 
a depresso-globose, five-lobed, free. Svyle included. Stigma 
obtuse. 
- Fig. 1. Pedicel with its two bracteoles t — 
$: Pel weaned, near the base and flower. 2. Stamen. 
