Tas. 4774. 
HEINTZIA ticrina. 
Spotted-flowered Heintzia. 
Nat. Ord. GesNERIACEE.—DIpYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
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Gen. Char. Calyx liber, quinquepartitus, subineequalis, persistens, lobis basi 
nervo medio excrescente callosis, estivatione valvata. Corolla hypogyna, infun- 
dibuliformis, extus supra basin ad marginem limbi tomentosa, éwJo subcurvato, 
dimbo quinquepartito ineequali subbilabiato, aciniis subcordato-orbiculatis, paten- 
tibus, duabus superioribus minoribus, tribus inferioribus paulo majoribus. Sta- 
mina quatuor, didynama, inclusa ; filamenta subulata, basi dilatata, in tubum postice 
fissum coalita, hic corolle tubo adnata; anthere per paria coherentes, biloculares, 
ovate. Ovarium liberum, disco annulari cinctum, tomentosum, uniloculare, pla- 
centis duabus parietalibus, bilobis; ovw/a plurima in funiculis longissimis ana- 
tropa. Stylus simplex, teres, longitudine filamentorum minorum. Stigma infun- 
dibuliforme, subbilobum. Fructus carnosus, unilocularis, corticatus, demum bi- 
valvis, valvis medio placentiferis. Semina plurima in pulpa nidulantia, ovalia vel 
obovata, testa crustacea spiraliter striata. Embryo in axi albuminis oleosi parci 
cylindricus ; cotyledonibus brevissimis applicatis, radicula umbilico proxima teret!. 
Karst. in Walp. 
HeErnvzta tigrina. 
Hernrata tigrina. Karsten in Otto and Dietr. Allgm. Gart. Zeit. v. 17. p. 33. 
and Answ. Schinbliihend. Gwehse. Venezuel. v. 34. t. 11. Walp. Annal. Bot. 
v. 2. p. 1075. 
A rather showy stove-plant, but with coarse foliage; for the 
possession of which at Kew we are indebted to Mr. Lowe, of the 
Clapton Nursery. It is a native of Caraccas, and is considered 
by some continental botanists to form a new genus of Gesnert- 
acee ; a family of plants however, all the individuals of which, 
as we have before had occasion to observe, require a thorough 
revision, and remodelling of their genera. When taken up in 
an isolated manner by those who are not familiar with the gene- 
ral structure of the whole, slight modifications in the form of the 
corolla or calyx, or in the nature of the hypogynous glands, will 
be magnified into real generic distinctions, though perhaps only 
of specific importance. As a genus, it cannot be far removed — 
APRIL lst, 1854. 
