ON PLANTS IN THE NATURAL ORDER GEsNERIACE*. 13 



London, ov some of the same stamp -scattered up and down the 

 coun.rv, fathering new names on oldjlowers to enhance thcr pnee; 

 and if aplaut of value and a rarity, though you pay dear for it, 

 unless you receive it in Flower, you shall to your cost and disap- 

 pointment experience their unfaithfulness." 

 1 Snowdrop. 



ARTICLE VI.— On the Culture of those Plants which 

 " arc arranged in the Natural Order Gcsneriace«>. 



By Mr. F. F. Ashford, Colston Hall. 

 I am induced, hy the request of your correspondent, Mr. J. B. 

 Denton, relating to Gloxinias, (Vol, L, p. 242,) to inform him, 

 in few words, of a method hy which he may not only increase. 

 his plants, and keep them in good health, hut also flower them in 

 their proper season to great perfection. I have taken the liberty 

 of introducing the other genera which helong to the same order 

 (GesnerfaceaO as the Gloxinias, considering them of equal value 

 and beauty, and as requiring the same kind of treatment. Such, 

 therefore; being the case, their culture shall be treated on collec- 



lively* 



Gesneriaceee ranks the 113th order of the natural arrangement 



of Jussieu, and, consequently, belongs to sub-class CaiycnW 



of the class Dicotyledons, in the first grand division Vasculares. 



This class contains 6 genera, and 38 species, viz. :— 



.'' . _ ia j u or 2. Linn.eus.— Conrad Gesner, a 



Genera 1. Gesnena, sp. 13, cl. 14, or. ~, m 

 famous botanist of Zurich. 



2. Gloxinia, sp. 4, cl. 14, or. 2, Herettien.-B. P. Glox.n, of 



Colmar, a botanist. 

 3 . Besiena, Bp. 12, cl. 14, or. 2, Linnjeus.-Basil Besler, an apo- 

 thecary of Nuremberg. 

 .,, Sinningia, sp. 6, cl. 14, or. 2, Esenbeck.-W. Sinning, gar- 

 dener to the Bonne University. 



.5. Codonophoru, s P . 2, cl. 14, or. 2, Ljndley.-KWo", a little bell, 



and phorea, to bear. 



6. Pen.araphia, sp. I, cl. 14, or. 2, Lindlev.-P^, five, and 



raphis, a spike. 

 The species are line tropical plants, with broad, fleshy, downy 

 leaves and purple or red flowers, with intervening shades. All 

 the species require stove heat to grow well and flower freely, then- 

 native country being either the Indies, or Equinoctial America. 



