Lobbiane. N. O. Gesneriacez. 
TAB, DCLXVI. 
TRICHANTHA MINOR. Hook. 
Gen. Cuan. Calyx semia-inferus? profunde 5-partitus, segmentis 
in lacinias 3-5 anguste lineares longissimas profunde fissis, 
longe ciliatis. Corolla tubulosa, curvata, hinc subventricosa, 
crinito-hirsuta, supra basin constricta, limbo 5-lobo, extus 5- 
appendiculatis, appendiculis lineari-clavatis patentibus, cum 
lobis alternantibus; /obis rotundatis patentibus, 2 superioribus 
paulo minoribus magisque approximatis. Stamina 4, didy- 
nama: Anthere per paria connexe. Fructus— ?—Frutices 
scandentes Caracasani, radicantes, et, ut videtur, epiphyti, pilosi. 
Folia succulenta, carnosa, ovata, sew obovata, penninervia, op- 
posita, unico minimo, Flores hirsutissimi, avillares, aggregati. 
Pedunculi uniflori. 
Trichantha minor ; foliis ovatis acuminatis integerrimis ciliatis 
supra glabriusculis subtus hirsutis, corolle tubo tereti, 
caule adpresse piloso. 
Has. Columbia, S. America. Mr. W. Lobb. 
I know of no Genus to which this can be assimilated ; and, 
though ignorant of the nature of its fruit, and, from the 
paucity of flowers, unwilling to destroy them for analysis, I 
venture to constitute of this and the following plant a new 
genus, which I have named from the copious and long hairs 
with which every part of the flower is covered, 
Fig. 1. Hair, magnified. 
