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GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA 
lew 
woody 
The 
cover the branches. 
supported on 
^,.w ™~m —v, ux C u ttW u »* meir euges, stalked and covered with long hairs like those winch 
1 he flowers grow in a tuft at the end of a long axillary or terminal peduncle ; each flower bein* 
ine calyx is herbaceous ; its 5 divisions are oval, acuminate, 
The corolla, somewhat like that of 
covered 
analogous to that of L 
mouth of the tube ; 1 
firmly joined together, 
with which the stigma 
traversed 
L, ; , «, , 8 largely campanulate, and has 5 rounded lobes : the tube white, hairy outside, 
tolerably symmetrically arranged, is somewhat 
The stamens, though included, appear at the 
filaments 
form 
— v ~„.* v , W-£V , t/i*^/c7 a, o\jhj ui [raits ycuuw star, 
contact. The disk, formed of 5 fleshy, obtuse yellow bodies, 
surrounds a roundish hairy ovary. 
" We are indebted for this magnificent greenhouse 
plant to Mr. Linden, who raised it from seeds collected by 
himself near Santa Fe de Bogota. MM. Humboldt and 
Bonpland, who had previously discovered it, described it 
some years ago under the name of Besleria grandijlora ; but 
the genus Besleria, as regarded now, contains plants with 
flowers that are axillary, whose calyx has 5 thick leaflets, 
whose corolla is nearly regular, slightly thickened at the 
base, and whose ovary is surrounded by a cupuliform disk : 
Besleria ftava, Lin. ; B. peduncular is, Poepp. ; B. arguta, 
Poepp. ; and B. elegans, H. B. K, may serve as the type of 
this genus, into which have been crowded a number of 
plants which do not possess its characters. For this reason 
I have named many hothouse plants, improperly called 
Besleria, Chrysothemis. They have a campanulate calyx 
with 5 teeth, to the sinus of which correspond as many 
more or less prominent sides. Their corolla is nearly 
regular, with 2 projecting folds on its lower lip : their 
stamens are included, their stigmas are 2-lobed, and their 
disk is a notched fleshy gland. This genus at present in- 
cludes 2 species, viz., O. pulchella Dne.=Besleria pulchella 
Hm-tnl Fnr.li W on MM u « i_ , L ° ddm > Bot CabA02s I C.venosa Dne .= B teleria melissce folia 
^^SST^ffi^ corolla streaked with carmine,and enclosed in a calyx with 5 wings,like that oiSinnLgia. 
to thoTe snef X 1^1 1 f T T^ " A ** ""?** * **"*> bUt GXtends t0 the S enus ^™> -hieh I reduce 
«^KXJS 1 F T ° ne ° f tUat ° f DlrC(Ba >' US ,0n ^ tube h **** into 4 lobes : the upper bread 
l^'t 't Tf S ° V ^ and ^^ ^ thG l0WCP Uke a SmaU P endent *«-8»e. An exact idea of this 
^ * h{ f ma - Th ° ° ther »*«** tol «W * *** 8»» -, a Linleniana 
Brongniart. , C.jlava Mart, and Gall.; O. crassifoUa Brongniart 5 C. mmdm* L.; Ottwla L 
descri .i ^fi^^T^ !T tWS i enUS °f*T*> f0F the pUrp ° 9e of -king a new genus, Collandra, the species 
com ^t i^r , ' " ^^^-^-^the name of Gesneria auro-nitens. I have Adopted the separation 
ZZSE^CI m ; ?• *" ^ ; (V ° L * ** 1847 ' P ' 225 >' alth0 ^ h » ha ™ not been able to discover by 
^^^^r^Z i 1S T Stan i tly ^^ ° f UneqUal * lands ' but the «*«>*» of this plant from CotenZ 
ITxZ^lTn U !? ^^r^ ^ TUS8aC aUd by M - Reich -^h , unfortunately, the names substituted 
X tt t^ZVlV 1K>t )G r T d ; ' ^^ theU t0 ^ genU3 C ° Jland ™> ******** ^gui,,^ as well as other 
vS m U eh tZ^ T^ f r I"' eXtreme ineqUaHt ^ preSent6d ^ each P air of ^«T«ne of which, constantly 
very much reduced, rennnds one of the deposition of these same organs in Rudlia anisophylla. 
wuTtt^S 111"/ "I 8 gr °r P . haV ; at th e™ d ^ ** ^ of their leaves a luge blood-coloured spot, from 
E2 ^ nof U 1 t\ P ' i ' ^ nameS ° f V""**^ Tus ^ « of TuJcia Reichenbach, proposed to 
^^b^SlS.^^ 1DaSmUCh M ^^ already ***> t0 ° ther pIants 5 ** ™™ «f ^^ ou 4f therefor I 
teUlE ^S JS T niPrehend9 f gWat nUmber ° f -P^^Md many very different looking plants, which require 
equal Eh , J J" "' Tl ^^^ 8 ° CaiI r ] ' ^ " mo " w, « "8^ corolla, -ith a limb°of five funded nearly 
^juai unisions , a calyx with deon tuxmonto nn \w» n A ««*.* . .i .,,... r 
segment 
sveciosuA 
sfrig 
( Hypocyrta 
SSS; ::"!;. S^r-^/^r:^// 11 -^^ Cornea zebrina, Hort.); ^. «^f 
The 
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