32G xciii. GESXEiti.vcE.T:. 



Sinningia speciosa, lliern, in Kjoeb. Videusk, Meddel. (1877-78) 

 p. 91. A short-stemnied plant, a native of Brazil, with oblong velvety 

 crenate leaves and violet-purple flowers. Woodr. Gard. in Ind. ed, 5, 

 p. 407. Gloxinia speciosa, Lodd. Bot. Cab. v. 1 (1818) t. 28 ; Grab. 

 Cat. p. 146 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 65. 



Na'fjelia zehrina, Kegel, in Flora, v. 31 (1848) p. 249. A very showy 

 plant about 2 ft. high, a native of Mexico. Leaves suborbicular, cor- 

 date, velvety, deep green, marbled. Flowers in racemes or panicles 

 with long pedicels ; corolla drooping, orange-scarlet above, pale-orange 

 below, the segments of the limb almost equal, pale-orange spotted with 

 red. Woodr. Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 406. Gesneria zehrina, Paxt. Mag. 

 Bot. v. 8 (1841) p. 271 ; Graham, in Bot. Mag. t. 3940. 



Gloxinia macidata, L'Herit. Stirp. Nov. (1784) p. 149. A native of 

 vS. America, with simple spotted stems. Eadical leaves 6 hj 4 in., 

 ovate, cordate, obtuse, doulily toothed, green and shining above, reddish 

 beneath. Flow(n's in racemes ; corolla large, pale-blue, widely tubular. 

 Grows well in the Deccnn if treated with care and flowers profusely in 

 October and November. Woodr. Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 408. 



Episcia tesselata. Linden, ex Lemaire, 111. Hortic. v. 16 (1869) sub 

 t. 607. A herbaceous plant, a native of Peru, with subcordate petiolate 

 leaves of a beautiful dark olive-green with a bronzy sheen above, vinous- 

 red beneath. Flowers numerous, aggregated in axillary fascicles, 

 subsessile, yellow. Centrosolenia bullaia, Lemaire, 111. llortic. v. 16 

 (1869) t. 607 ; Woodr. Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 407. 



Ejnscia fulr/ida, Hook. f. in Bot. ]Mag. v. 30 (1874) t. 6136. A 

 handsome herbaceous plant, a native of Colombia. Leaves ovate, sub- 

 cordate, crenate, ciliate, richly marbled. Flowers axillary, solitary, 

 on long pedicels ; corolla bright-scarlet w ith a long tube. Ciii-todeira 

 fnlgida, Linden, ex Andre, Illustr. Hortic. v. 20 (1873) t. 131 ; Woodr. 

 Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 408. 



Order XCIV. BIGNONIACE-ffi. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, 1-3 times unequally pinnate or 

 sometimes undivided. Flov\'ers hermaphrodite, irregtilar, in racemes or 

 ])anicles usually terminal ; bracts 0. Calyx gamosepalous, campanulate 

 or spathaceous ; lobes 2-5 or 0. Corolla 2-lipped, tubular-ventricose ; 

 lobes 5, subequal, imbricate in bud. Stamens 4, didynamous, often with 

 an imperfect (in Oroxylum a perfect) flfth inserted Mhere the corolla- 

 tube is suddenly swollen ; anthers 2-celled, included or shortly exserted ; 

 cells elliptic or oblong, parallel or divaricate, with longitudinal dehis- 

 cence. Disk usuall}' thick or annular. Ovary subsessile, 2-celled ; 

 ovules numerous, in many rows (rarely 1-2 rows), anatropous ; etyle 

 long, glabrous ; stigma of 2 elliptic lobes. Capsules mostly elongate, 

 loculicidally or septicidally 2-valvcd ; septum enlarging in fruit, deci- 

 duous with the placentas. Seeds compressed, discoid (rarely subtri- 

 gonus), usually prominently winged ; albumen 0. — Uistriis. Throughout 

 the Tropics of the whole world, largely in Trop. America, a h\\ in the 

 warm temperate zones of both hemispheres ; genera about 105 ; species 

 about 5r)0. 



