Purdieane. N. O. Gesneriacex. 
TAB. DCCCLXXIII. 
CENTROSOLENIA GLABRA, Hook. 
Prostrata repens epiphyta tota glabra, foliis oppositis equalibus 
sublonge petiolatis obovato-lanceolatis acuminatis carnosis in- 
tegerrimis vel superne serratis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis 
ebracteatis petiolum superantibus unifloris, calyce profunde 5- 
partito laciniis lineari-lanceolatis, corollz (albze) tubo infundi- 
buliformi deorsum in ealcar inflatum obtusum terminante limbo 
patente subquali 5-lobo lobis rotundatis subundulatis inte- 
gerrimis, glandula hypogyna magna solitaria. 
Has. West Indies; Trinidad, on trees, Mr. W. Purdie. 
This was sent, a living plant, from Trinidad by Mr. Purdie, 
and flowered in the stove of the Royal Gardens in February 1848. 
It seems to me to have all the essential characters of Mr. Ben- 
tham’s Centrosolenia, and sufficiently of the habit. of the species 
we are already acquainted with. All are natives of tropical 
America. The projecting, obtuse, inflated spur at the base of the 
corolla occasions the inferior lobe of the calyx to be bent down 
or back, whilst all the other segments are erect. Here the hypo- 
gynous gland is solitary and very large: in the two Centrosolenia 
figured in the Bot. Mag. tab. 4552 and 4611, there are two 
opposite glands at the base of the germen. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 7.2. Stamens and spur of the corolla. f 3. 
Pistil. 4. Section of ovary and of the hypogynous gland :— 
magnified. 
