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GLOXINIA HIRSUTA, “Hay Guoxinia. 
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Diorwawia AnorosrerMia. ae. 
$ 4 p See ened 
ae | Nat. “Ord. —Pepauines, 5% 
(i a Generic. Character, : ‘G 
Cal. sepbreas 5-phyllus. Cor. campantlata : timbo ob-— 
liquo. gies te 9 cum rudimento p tn imo ubo corolla os 
inserta. or laris. Ree biloba, 1s 
inserta. : 
Groxinta hirsuta ; foliis bo RRR Pe rugosis hispidis 
crenatis, we os aggregatis unifloris, corolla infundibu- 
liformi. 
GLOXINIA hirsuta. % Lit dl -m Bot. Reg... 1004. 
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| : <3 Fithes 8 a 
e root, and lying g hori- 
Descr. Leaves, aco ing rt 
springing almost immediately from 
zontally upon the ground, : shortly petiolated, four to six 
inches Jong, ovato-rotundate, ru gose with the numerous 
-anastomosing veins, and, upon ‘the surface, as well as the 
margin, clothed with white, long, and rather rigid hairs, the 
margin itself coarsely crenated. Flowers springing in clus- 
ters from the root, three or four rising and expanding at the 
same time, each upon a scape of about two inches in length, 
which is hispid all round. Calyx inferior, tubular below, 
hispid, aiched. the lobes lanceolate, erecto-patent. Co- 
rolla between two and three inches long, infundibuliform, 
_ pale blue and pubescent externally, the limb spreading, 
_ five-lobed, the two upper lobes smaller, the three inferior 
ones large, all with dark veins: the interior of the tube is 
yellowish, with darker spots. Stamens four, didynamous, 
“tncluded ; filament curved ; anthers united in pairs, some- 
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