It was at first suggested that the species here described 
belonged to one of the genera of Columneae. That tribe 
as now constituted is rather well and uniformly charac- 
terized by the disk of discrete glands. here are super- 
ficial resemblances between Resia and some Columneae, 
perhaps more to the recently described T'ylosperma from 
the slopes of Mt. Duida in the Guiana highlands than 
to any other. Despite these similarities, 7'ylosperma is 
distinct in the structure of its inflorescence, in its disk 
of one large and four small discrete glands and in its pus- 
tulate seeds. 
Resia H. i. Moore gen. nov. {Gesneriaceae—Cyrtan- 
droideae |. 
Plantae perennes, suffruticosae, caulescentes, radicibus 
tibrosis foliis brevipetiolatis congestis. Cymae axillares 
pedunculatae, floribus luteis pluribus. Corollae tubus cy- 
lindricus, limbo quinquelobato bilabiato. Stamina 4 fila- 
mentis inferne ad tubum adnatis superne liberis, genicu- 
latis, antheris coherentibus, loculis confluentibus. Discus 
annulatus. Ovarium superius, vestitum. Capsulain calyce 
ineclusa, bivalvata, lateraliter compressa, vestita, semini- 
bus striatis, granulosis. 
Terrestrial perennial sub-shrubs with fibrous roots and 
short to elongate, sometimes branched woody stems. 
Leaves subsessile or shortly petiolate, congested in a 
terminal crown. Inflorescence cymose, axillary, pedun- 
culate, ebracteate. Flowers zygomorphic, calyx of 5 dis- 
tinct sepals inconspicuously nerved in flower, thickened 
and conspicuously 5—7-nerved in fruit, corolla tubular 
with bilabiate limb of 5 spreading lobes, acute upper 2 
lobes shorter than rounded lower 3. Stamens 4, filaments 
adnate to the corolla-tube to middle, then free, glabrous, 
geniculate, with anthers coherent in a square by their 
tips, cells of each anther confluent and dehiscing longi- 
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