Purdieane. N. O. Gesneriacez. 
TAB. DCCCLXXTV. 
ConRapia NEGLECTA, Hook. 
Subacaulis, foliis obovato-oblongis sublanceolatisve acutis grosse 
inequaliter serratis glabris basi in petiolum brevem sub lente 
transverse scabrum resinoso-furfuraceum, costa dorso similiter 
scabra furfuraceaque, pedunculis axillaribus subaggregatis bi- 
bracteolatis unifloris folio multoties brevioribus, calycis seg- 
mentis subulatis corolla tubum squantibus, corolle oblique 
campanulatze lobis inzequalibus subrotundatis glanduloso-pilosis. 
Has. Rocks, Cave Valley, St. Anne’s and Clarendon, Jamaica, 
Mr. W. Purdie. 
Abundant in the above localities, and perhaps elsewhere in 
Jamaica, yet the species never appears to have been taken up by 
any author. The drawing is made from a cultivated specimen in 
the stove of the Royal Gardens, raised from seeds sent home by 
Mr. Purdie. The young leaves are very resinous, and the petioles 
and costa at the back of the leaf, when seen under the microscope, 
are found to be marked with transverse rugosities or elevations, 
and more or less clothed with a resinous substance which breaks 
off in scales. This plant belongs, I presume, to the true Conra- 
di, not to the first division or groupe in De Candolle, which con- 
stitutes the genus Pentaraphia of Dr. Lindley ; sh the distin- 
guishing characters of which I by no means understa 
Fig. 1. Flower. 7. 2. Pistil. ££ 3. Corolla laid open. f. 4. 
Ovary cut through transversely :—magnisied. 
