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GESNERIA VERTICILLATA. VERTICILLATE) 
 GESNERIA. 
Class and Order. — 
_. Diprnamia ANGIosPERMIA. st 
( Nat. Ord.—Gesnerizz. ) . z: "i 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. tubuloso-campanulata, limbo $. 
Stigma bilobum. Capsula monolocularis, bivalvis, placen- 
tis parietalibus bilamellatis. Spreng. — 
Specific Character. 
Gesneria verticillata ; herbacea foliis verticillatis quaternis 
ovatis serratis pubescenti-mollibus petiolatis, pedun- 
culis terminalibus unifloris, floribus nutantibus infun- 
dibuliformi-cylindraceis, ore quinquefido subzquali, 
laciniis extus basi 5-tuberculatis. ; 
Descr. Stem about a foot high, subcylindrical, green, 
pubescent, somewhat tuberous at the base, simple. Leaves 
in two(or more ?) distant whorls, each of four lea 
aves, which 
are spreading, or reflexed, ovate approaching to cordate, 
petiolated, dark green, clothed with a soft pubescence, 
much veined, midrib at the base, and on the under side, as 
~ well as the lateral nerves, wholly red, the margin strongly 
serrated, the extremities of the older leaves very coarsely 
and doubly so. Petioles about one-third of the length of 
the leaves (those of the upper whorl much less so, thick, 
red, pubescent, grooved above. Peduneles two (or more ?) 
from the extremity of the stem, and from the centre of the 
upper whorl of leaves, three to four inches long, red, single- 
flowered, below erect, then pendent, slender, pubescent. 
Flower altogether drooping. Calyx half superior, of five 
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