354 Bignoniacea Eccremocarpus. 



tubular flowers. This handsome plant is usually treated as an 

 annual in the open air. It is a native of Chili. 



Fig. 195. Eccremocarpus scaber. (} nat. size.) 



ORDER LXXX. GESNERACE^E. 



This is a considerable order of herbs and shrubs with usually 

 very gorgeous and brilliant flowers, including the genera 

 Gloxinia, Achimenes, jffischyndnthus, and Gesnera, of our 

 stoves ; but there is only one hardy species in our gardens, viz., 

 Ramondia Pyrendica, syn. Verbdscum Mycbni. The order 

 is characterised amongst the Gramopetalous division by having 

 unsymmetrical flowers and parietal placentation of the ovary; 

 but the little plant alluded to is anomalous in having symme- 

 trical flowers, and hence its position is not undisputed. It is a 

 dwarf mountain plant about 4 inches high with tufted oblong- 

 cordate rugose shaggy leaves and few-flowered bractless scapes. 

 The flowers are purple or lilac with yellow anthers. 



ORDER LXXXL PEDALIACE^I. 



A small order remarkable for the curious forms assumed by 

 the seed-vessel of different species. In structural arrangements 

 it hardly differs from the last. The only genus we are familiar 

 with in cultivation is Martynia. The species are of annual 

 duration, branching from the base, and clothed with clammy 

 hairs. Leaves simple, cordate-oblong or rotundate. Flowers 



