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Gloxinia Maculata. Spotted-Stalked 

 Gloxinia. 



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DlDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



Generic Characler. 

 Cal. fuperus, 5-phyllus. Cor. campanulata limbo obliquo. 

 Filament a cum rudimento quinti receptaculo inferta. Cap/. 

 l-Iocularis : recept. 2, biloba, lateribus inferta. 



Specific Name and Synonyms, 

 GLOXINIA maculata. L'Herit. Stirp. Nov. 149. Hort. 



Kew. 2. p. 33 1. Martin Mill. Dicl. IVilld. Sp. 



PI. 3. p. 229. 

 MARTYNIA perennis ; caule fimplici, foliis ferratis. Sp. PL 



862. Reich. 3. 142. Medic. Bot. Beob. 1 783. p. 238. 

 MARTYNIA foliis ferratis. Hort. Cliff. 322. /. 18. Mart. 



Mill. Diff. 

 MARTYNIA perennis folio fubrotundo rugofo, flore caeruleo, 



radice dentariae. Ehret Pit!, t. g.f. 2. 



On account of the germen being below the calyx, Jussieu 

 had obferved that this plant muft beremovedfrom Martyn i a 

 and the order Bignontte to the Campanulacea, where he united 

 U with Gesxeri a. L'Heriti er made a diftinct genus of it, 

 which he named in honour of Benjamin Peter Gloxin, a 

 German Botanift. 



But, notwithstanding the calyx is fuperior, neither this plant 

 nor die genus Gesneria appear to belong to Campanulace<e ; 

 and Jussieu has fince affented to the propofal of M. Richard 

 to unite them, with a few other genera, into a diftinft family. 

 (Vide Ann. oj Bot. v. 2. p. 2 64 J 



The ftamens of this plant are remarkable, the four anthers 

 being all connected together at one extremity near the infer- 

 tion of the filaments, from which point the lobes of the anthers 

 diverge and form an eight-rayed liar. 



Prof. Martyn, in his valuable edition of Miller's Dic- 

 tionary, has inadvertently inferted this plant a fecond time 

 under the name Martyn i a perennis. 



Native of Carthagena in South-America, whence the feeds 

 were fent to Europe, by Mr. Robert Millar. It was cul- 

 tivated in the Chelfea Garden in 1739. Requires the conftant 

 beat of the bark ftove- Is eafily propagated by its knobbed 

 loots or by cuttings. Communicated by Mr. Loddices. 



