-LENTIBULARIACEA. A471 
2. Pinguicula caudata, Schl. in Linnea, vii. p. 393; DC. Prodr. viii. p. 28. 
Pinguicula bakeriana, Gard. Chron. n. s. xv. p. 541,. fig. 102. 
Pinguicula orchidioides, A. DC. Prodr. viii. p. 27; Bot. Mag. t. 4231. 
Pinguicula flos-mulionis, Morr. Belg. Hort. 1872, p- 371, t. 27. 
Pinguicula moranensis et P. macrophylla, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. ii. p. 226? 
Pinguicula oblongiloba, DC. Prodr. viii. p. 27; Calques des Dess. Fl. Mex. 1071. fig. 2? 
Nort Mexico, region of San Luis Potosi, 6000 to 8000 feet (Parry & Palmer, 694) ; 
SoutH Mexico, peak of Orizaba, 9500 feet (Linden, 162; Botteri, 956: Bourgeau, 
2838), San Felipe (Andrieux, 130), Tlalpujahua (Graham), Totontepec (Hartweg), 
Zimapan (Coulter, 929, 930), Cuesta Grande de Chiconquiaco (Schiede), Mirador 
(Linden, 160). Hb. Kew. 
From plants that we have observed under cultivation, and specimens we have seen 
in herbaria, we believe we are right in reducing the names cited above to synonyms of 
one species. ‘The plants first produce rosettes of small, densely packed leaves ; and these 
are succeeded by a few much larger loose ones that conceal the rosettes. © 
3. Pinguicula crenatiloba, DC. Prodr. viii. p. 30; Calques des Dess. Fl. Mex. 
1071. fig. 3. 
Pinguicula lilacina, Seem. Bot. Voy. ‘ Herald,’ p. 324, cum synon. 
Pinguicula nana, Mart. et Gal., nec P. lilacina, Ch. et Schl. 
NortH Mexico, Sierra Madre (Seemann, 2118); Sour Mexico, Cordillera of Oaxaca, 
at 2000 feet (Galeotti, 861). Hb. Kew. 
4, Pinguicula heterophylla, Benth. Pl. Hartw. p.7; DC. Prodr. viii. p. 28. 
SoutH Mexico, Juquila (Hartweg), eastern Cordillera of Oaxaca, 8000 to 9000 feet 
(Galeotti, 860). Hb. Kew. 
5. Pinguicula lilacina, Ch. et Schl. in Linnea, v. p. 94; DC. Prodr. viii. p. 31. 
. Pinguicula obtusiloba, DC. Prodr. viii. p. 80; Calques des Dess. Fl. Mex. 1071. fig. 1. 
North Mexico, Cerro de Pinal, at 7000 feet (Seemann, 1514); Sourm Mexico, 
Cordillera of Vera Cruz, 2000 to 4000 feet (Galeotti, 859; Linden, 161), San Blas to 
Tepic (Sinclair). Hb. Kew. 
[The anomalous genus Columellia, of which there are two species in the mountains 
of Ecuador and Peru, has not hitherto, we believe, been detected in Central America. | 
Order XCIX. GESNERACE. 
Gesneracee, Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. ii. p. 990; Hanstein in Linnea, xxvi. pp. 145-216, xxvii. 
pp. 693-785, xxix. pp. 497-502, xxxiv. pp. 225-446. 
Herbs or shrubs, rarely arboreous. Including a few inedited ones, the Order com- 
prises about seventy-five genera and 850 to 900 species, generally dispersed in tropical 
and subtropical countries; a few, and for the greater part belonging to monotypic 
