RESIA — A NEW GENUS 
OF GESNERIACEAE 
BY 
Haroutp E. Moore, Jr.' 
SEVERAL years ago, Dr. Richard Evans Schultes sent 
two collections of a gesneriaceous plant from Colombia 
for study in conjunction with material then on loan from 
the Gray Herbarium. The specimens were annotated 
with a manuscript name, but comparison suggested that 
they belonged in a genus other than that to which they 
were tentatively attributed and a genus related probably 
to Napeanthus. Thanks to the kindness of Mr. C. V. 
Morton, additional Colombian collections from the 
United States National Herbarium have been made 
available for study. 
‘The recent paper by Leeuwenberg on Gesneriaceae of 
Guiana (Acta Botanica Neerlandica 7 (1958) 291-444), 
with its revision of Napeanthus, stimulated a fresh study 
of the materials mentioned above. Closer study showed 
them to be representatives of a new monotypic genus 
which is here proposed with the name Resia, adopting 
the initials of Dr. Schultes for the generic epithet. The 
specific epithet nzmbicola was that suggested by Schultes 
and Idrobo. 
Anetanthus, Cremosperma, Klugia, Lembocarpus and 
Napeanthus are the only American genera of Cyrtan- 
'L. H. Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. 
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