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GESNERIA TOMENTOSA. Woo.LLy 
GESNERIA, 
Te RE RR RR eb Raa ae ae 
Clafs and Order. 
DIpDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIAs 
Generic Charafer. 
Cal. 5-fidus, fuperus. Cor. tubulofa irregularis, incurva, 
medio coarétata. Cap/- infera, fubbilocularis. Sem. lineari- 
fcobiformia. 
Specific Charaiter and Synonyms. 
GESNERIA fomentofa; foliis ovato lanceolatis crenatis hir- 
futis, pedunculis lateralibus longiffimis corym- 
biferis. Sp. Pl. 851. Willd. 3. p. 251. Rerch. 
3. p. 124. Hort. Cliff 318. Facg. Aner. 179. 
t.175.f. 64. Swartz Ob/f. 228. Hort. Kew. 2. 
p- 331. Mart. Mill. Did?. a. 3. Gert. Frud. 
! $472.8, 199- Je On Fe : , 
GESNERIA ereéta, foliis lanceolatis rugofis hirfutis, pedun- 
culis longiflimis ramofis, ex alis fuperioribus. 
Browne Fam. 261. 
DIGITALIS folio oblongo ftriato ad foliorum alas florida. 
Sloan. Hift. 1. p. 162. t. 104. f. 2. Katt Sup. 
396. 
SaaReeEane 
_ Thename of Gesnerta was given to this genus by Prumrer, 
In honour of Conrapve Gesner, the celebrated Swifs Na- 
turalift, who died of the plague in the forty ninth year of his 
age, in his mufeum, whither he direéted himfelf to be removed 
a little before he expired. 
_The affigning its natural order appears to have been attended 
With particular difficulty. Linnaus, in his Fragmenta, had — 
arranged 
