1326 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM 



Ovary wholly or partly inferior. 



Ovary partly inferior; calyx cleft to the ovary 1. KOHLEBIA. 



Ovary wholly inferior; calyx tube developed. 



Lobes of the calyx as long as the tube, narrow and acute; corolla tube t)nly 



slightly exceeding the calyx; flowers sohtary 2. SOLENOPHORA. 



Lobes of the calyx much shorter than the tube; corolla tube mucli exceeding 



the calyx; flowers unabellate 3. HIPPODAMIA. 



Ovary superior. 



Disk ringlike, not separated into glands 4. BESLEBIA. 



Disk separated into several glands, but only one of them usually well developed. 



Filaments free or nearly so 5. DB YMONIA. 



Filaments united below into a tube. 



Anthers free 6. ALLOPLECTUS. 



Anthers coherent 7. COLUMNEA. 



1. KOHLEBIA Kegel, Flora 31: 250. 1848. 

 Plants herbaceous or suffrutescent; leaves opposite or verticillate; flowers 

 usually red, axillary or in terminal leafy racemes; calyx tube adnate to the ovary, 

 the limb 5-lobate; corolla tube ventricose, the lobes subequal, short; fruit a 

 bivalvate capsule. 



Flowers in terminal leafy racemes, the leaves of the inflorescence much reduced; 

 stigma deeply bilobate. 

 Calyx lobes obtuse, the pubescence brown or red, loose and spreading. 



1. K. spicata. 



Calyx lobes acute, the pubescence whitish, appressed 2. K. longifolia. 



Flowers in axillary long-pedunculate umbels, or the peduncles rarely 1-flowered, 

 the leaves of the inflorescence little if at all reduced; stigma only shallowly 

 lobate. 

 Leaves glabrous on the upper surface. 



Branches appressed-pilose 3. K. fruticosa. 



Branches glabrous 4. K. viminalis. 



Leaves appressed-pilose on the upper surface. 



Calyx lobes in anthesis equaling or shorter than the campanulate tube. 



5. K. deppeana. 

 Calyx lobes in anthesis usually twice as long as the tube, if shorter the tube 

 narrowly turbinate. 



Leaves glabrous beneath except along the veins 6. K. martensii. 



Leaves densely appressed-pilose beneath 7. K. elegans. 



1. Kohleria spicata (H. B. K.) Hanst. Linnaea 29: 520. 1858. 

 Gesneria spicata H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 393. pi. 188. 1817. 

 Gesneria schiedeana Hook, in Curtis's Bot. Mag. pi. 4152. 1845. 

 Isoloma spicatum Decaisne, Rev. Hort. 1848: 465. 1848. 

 Kohleria schiedeana Hanst. Linnaea 29: 518. 1858. 



Isoloma schiedeanum Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 2: 479. 1882. 



Veracruz and Oaxaca. Guatemala to Venezuela; type from Colombia. 



Plants herbaceous or suffrutescent, often epiphytic, the stems villous-hirsute 

 with appressed or spreading hairs; leaves mostly ternate, short-petiolate, lance- 

 oblong or ovate-oblong, 7 to 15 cm. long, acute or acuminate, obtuse to attenuate 

 at base, crenate, scabrous above, villous-sericeous beneath; corolla scarlet, 18 to 

 20 mm. long, densely villous. 



2. Kohleria longifolia (Lindl.) Hanst. Linnaea 29: 525. 1858. 

 Gesneria longifolia Lindl. in Edwards, Bot. Reg. 1841: Misc. 92. 1841. 

 Isoloma longifolium Decaisne, Rev. Hort. 1848: 465. 1848. 

 Kohleria chiapejisis T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 66. 1914. 



