402 Dr Graham’s List of Rare Plants. 
fleshy, obconical, slightly angled, persistent, glabrous on the outside, 
and also within except at the apex where it is pubescent, rising from 
the axil of a subulato-filiform bract as long as itself, and incased by two 
blunt bracts, which are of equal length, coalesce to above their middle, 
and are villous ; limb 5-lobed, segments as long as the tube, unequally 
cohering, adpressed, elliptical, blunt, glabrous, concave, thin, and deci- 
- duous. Corolla (14 inch long) 5-petalous, funnel-shaped, petals obovate, 
tapering into long claws, inserted into the throat of the calyx, and pro- 
jecting half their length beyond its limb, subequal, undulate, emargi- 
nate or entire, nervation penniform. Stamens inserted with the petals, 
and nearly twice as long as them, monadelphous and pubescent on their 
outside to the middle, free above the apices of the calyx limb, cleft to 
the base ; anthers versatile, small; pollen orange-yellow, granules ob- 
long. Pistil shorter than the stamens; stigma small, capitate, dark ; 
style straight, filiform, glabrous; germen densely pubescent, stipitate, 
the foot-stalk adherent to the calyx-tube ; ovules numerous. 
Few things can exceed the elegance, or the richness of colouring, in the 
beautiful flowers of this shrub, but unfortunately they are rarely pro- 
duced in our stoves, and are very fugacious, scarcely lasting more than 
twenty-four hours. The specimen described produced several fasciculi 
in short succession in February 1842. 
Gesnera zebrina, Hortul. 
G. zebrina ; caule tereti, erecto, pubescente ; foliis oppositis, longe pe- 
tiolatis, cordato-subrotundis ; racemo terminali, erecto ; bracteis sub- 
ulatis, involutis ; pedicellis simplicibus, longissimis, erectis ; corolla 
nutante, segmentis superioribus brevioribus. 
Gesnera zebrina, Paxton, Mag. of Bot. 8. 96.—Lindl. in Bot. Reg. Ann. 
1842, 16. 
DescripTion.—Root tuberous. Stem (including the raceme, 24 feet high 
in the specimen described) round, erect, stout, branched, as well as the 
whole plant, exclusive of the flowers, densely covered with unequal 
spreading simple pubescence. Leaves (6 inches long, 53 broad) oppo- 
site, petiolate, ovato-subrotund, slightly cordate at the base and slight- 
ly pointed, or reniform and somewhat oblique, thick and velvet-like, 
3-nerved, reticulate, pale below, full green above, and darker along the 
nerves and veins, which are strongly prominent below, the reticulations 
flat, the lateral nerves generally divided at the base ; petioles nearly as 
long as the leaves, the lower spreading, the upper suberect, deeply chan- 
nelled above. Raceme terminal, pedicels simple, 4 inches long, erect, 
tapering a little upwards, springing from the axil of a small subulate, 
inyolute, green, coriaceous bract. lowers suspended very gracefully 
from the apices of the pedicels. Calyx green, persisting, spreading pre- 
vious to the fall of the flower, afterwards connivent over the germen. 
Corolla (14 inch long) campanulate, ventricose below, compressed la- 
terally, glanduloso-pubescent externally, and there of brilliant red colour, 
excepting in a broad yellow stripe along the lower side, on the inside 
yellow, glabrous, and sprinkled with red spots, which are largest on the 
lower part of the tube, smaller and more crowded on the limb, of which 
the lobes are subpatent, blunt, unequal, the two lateral ones being rather 
the largest, and the two upper the smallest and least yellow. Stamens 
arising from the cartilaginous base of the corolla, included; anthers ob- 
long, the cells being in front of a broad cartilaginous connective, and be- 
coming coherent as in the Genus ; pollen white, granules very minute, 
abortive filament short and subulate. Pistil as long as the upper lip; 
stigma concave, compressed dorsally, villous on the outside ; style stout, 
pubescent, filiform ; germen pubescent, half superior, this upper portion 
being surrounded at its base by the erect lobed edge of a thin white disk. 
Ovules numerous. 
Even in this beautiful genus the species now described will be looked up- 
on as eminently attractive, both on account of its colour and its shape. 
We received it from the rich collection of Mr Low of Clapton, and 
both in the Botanic Garden and in Mr Cunningham’s nursery, Comely 
