bushy compact annual about 2 feet in height, which flowers 
freely and continuously during autumn. It is easily 
brought to perfection under the treatment suitable for 
Gloxinias and other tropical Gesneraceae. 
Descriprion.—J/lerb, erect and simple or branching from 
the base, 1-2 feet high; stems soon becoming glabrous, 
Leaves opposite, ovate, acute at the tip, often rather unequal 
and truncate, rounded or slightly cuneate at the base, 
serrate, 2-3 in, long, 1-2} in. wide, membranous, slightly 
mealy beneath, hairy on both surfaces with several-celled 
hairs which are longer above than below, lateral nerves about 
10 on each side, somewhat raised beneath ; petioles 2-25 in. 
long, channelled above. Peduneles axillary, solitary or 
paired, each 4—8-flowered, 3-14 in. long; bracts connate 
in a hairy cup with a crenately toothed margin. Pedicels 
glabrous, about 2 in. long. Calyx divided nearly to the 
base into 5 linear-lanceolate lobes about 5 lin. long which 
are ciliate with longish hairs. Corolla funnel-shaped ; limb 
bright blue with a yellow blotch in front within, spreading, 
% in. across; tube white, somewhat curved below, as long 
as the bracts and rather longer than the calyx, glandular 
hairy outside and at the mouth within. Stamens 2; fila- 
ments inserted about 4 in. above the base; anthers bearded 
behind; staminodes 3, the lateral nearly as long as the 
filaments, the central very short. Disk annular. Ovary 
beset with adpressed hairs; over 4 in. long, only $ lin. 
wide; style longer than the stamens; stigma 2-lobed. 
Fig. 1, part of a leaf, under side; 2, calyx and pistil; 3, pistil, portion of 
calyx removed; 4, corolla, laic ‘ ; ie ther-hair :— 
ail enlurged: , corolla, laid open; 5 and 6, anthers; 7, an an 
