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* GE8NERA lateiitia. 

 Brick-red Gesncra. 



DIDYNAMIA ANGWSPERillA. 



Nat. ord. GESNERACEiE. 



GESNERA. Supra, vol. 4.fol. 329. 



G. lateritia ; herbacea, foliis subrotundo-ovatis cordatis rugosis crenatis hirsutis, 

 floribus axillaribus solitariis terniinalibusque geminatis, bracteis sessilibus 

 amplcxicaulibus planis, corollis tomentosis labio superiore oblongo coiicavo 

 bilobo inferiore truncate. 



G. Selloi. Hort. nee Martii. 



This is the plant to which I adverted, fol. 1785, in com- 

 paring G. faucialls with G. Selloi ; but upon comparing it 

 •with the G. SeUovii of Martins, I find it is a very different 

 plant, and in fact a mere garden misnomer. 



G. SeUovii is related to G. macrostachya, fol. 1202, and 

 allagopliylla, fol. 1767, while this forms one of the set of 

 (t. bulbosa, which is plainly distinguished by the oblique 

 orifice of the corolla, the long emarginate upper lip, and the 

 very small lobes of the lower lip. It is most nearly allied to 

 G. faucialis, from which it differs in the leaves being more 

 round, the flowers smaller, the flower-stalks longer, the base 

 of the upper lip of the corolla as wide as its apex, the narrow 

 orifice of the tube, and the truncated narrow middle lobe of 

 the lower lip. 



A native of Brazil, whence it was received by the Horti- 

 cultural Society, in whose garden the drawing was made in 

 June, 1834. It is a stove plant, readily cultivated in peat 

 and loam. 



* See fol. 1158. 



