1S4 BOTANY OF THE TOYAGE OF H.M.S. HEIL\LD. 
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fined to the sea-coast as the Jiliizoploras, jet they are, lite many other maritime plants, the Cocos nucifera 
and miiscus fdiaceus for instance, capable of growing inland when under cultivation, but they do not spon- 
taneously extend their range beyond the limit of the sea-breeze. 
GESNERIACE^*. 
783. Gesxi:ria spicata, H. B. et K., De Cand. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 531.~G. Seemanni, Hook. 
Bot. Mag. t. 450i ! Upon rocks. Western Coast of Daricn. 
This species loses much of the density of its haiiy covering when in cultivation, and assumes altogether 
BO difi-erent an aspect, that Sir William J. Hooker looked upon the plant raised from rhizomes sent by me to 
the Eoyal Botanic Gardens at Kew (which he did me the honour of naming after me), as a species distinct 
from G. spicata. 
784. Gesxeria peiiolaris, Benth. Bot. Sulph. p. 131. Coyba Island, off the Southern Coast of 
Vera^as (Barclay, Hinds) . 
785. Gesxeria tubiflora, Cav., Dc Cand. Prodr. yol. viii. p. 527.— G. incurva, Benth. Bot 
Sulph. p. 131 !— G, picta, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4431 !— Nomen vernacul. "Guatatuco." Common 
m and about Panama, often growing on old walls, on the roofs of houses and steeples of churches < 
Island of Gorgona (Barclay). 
I introduced this species into the Boyal Botanic Gardens at Eew, and it is now to be met with in the 
hot-houses of most Iiorticultural establishments both of England and the European Continent. 
786. Ges.veria rliynchocarpa, Benth. Bot. Sulph. p. 131.— Wlprs. Rep. vol. vi. p. 398. Bay 
of Piiias, Darien. 
This species was also coUected at Santamarta by Mr. William Purdie, where, according to a memorandum 
of that ta-aveller in Herb. Hook., the inhabitants make a decoction of it, which is administered with good 
effect in cases of dysentery, 
787. Gloxinia (§ Salisia) pallidiflora, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4213.— Wlprs. Rep. vol vi p 401 
In savauas near the \'iUage of San Juan, Province of Panama ; rare. 
. This ^ecies is mtimately connected with aioxinia ma^lata, L'H,5rit., the type upon which Gloxinia 
was founded ; forthat reason I cannot agree with Mr. Eegcl in changing the QJoxiniu maculata, L'H^rit 
mto Sahua gloxvmaflora. If the Umits of the genns, as adopted by De CandoUe (Prodr vol vii' 
p. 533), have to be circumscribed on account of some of the species possessing a perigynous cup and 
some hypogyuous gl.™ds, and new genera have to be made, the name Gloxinia must be retained for that 
spee.es upon wh>eh the genus was originally founded (©. maculata, L'Herit.) ; nor is it in accord^ce with 
the rules of botamcal science to give, as Mr. Kegel has done in this case, a new specific name to plants 
when then- genene one is changed, unless the specific name was previously occupied in the genus to which 
the plant is referred. ^ & ^ » ixit,ii 
ScHEEniA, Seem. -Char. Gen. Calyoo tuho eeostato cum ovario comnato, limbo supero 5 
partito a^quali. Corolla pcrigyna. campanulata, subringens, tube supra ad basin gibbo, fauce ampliato, 
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