what kidney-shaped, one-celled, white. Germen haif supe- 
rior, ovate, hairy, surrounded by five small glands, taper- 
ing upwards into the glabrous, filiform, white style, which ° 
is as long as the tube of the corolla. Stigma, dilated pel- 
tate, white. 
Communicated from the collection of Mrs. ARNOLD 
Harrison, at Aigburgh, near Liverpool, by Mr. Henry - 
Surruerp. It was introduced to our country from Brazil, 
by Witu1Am Harrison, Esq. of Rio. 
The plant has the habit of Gloxinia, but it has neither 
the same shaped corolla, nor the fifth barren filament of 
that genus. The form of the corolla, indeed, corresponds 
with that of the East Indian Cyrtandra of Dr. Jack, in 
the fourteenth volume of the Transactions of the Linnean 
Society, p. 25: but there, two of the stamens are always 
imperfect. Perhaps when we shall become acquainted 
with the fruit of this rare plant, it will be found to con- . 
stitute a genus different from any hitherto published. It 
requires the heat of the stove. 
Fig. 1. Corolla laid open and somewhat magnified. 2. Back view. 
3. Front view of the Anthers. 4, Pistil, with the glands at the base—All 
more or less magnified, 
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