GESNÉRIACÉES. 79 
GENERA 
[. GESNERIEÆ. 
1. Gesneria L. — Flores irregulares hermaphroditi; recepta- 
culo concavo, germen totum v. ex parte concavitate fovente. Sepala 5, 
receplaculi marginibus inserta, aut angusta acutata acuminatave (Eu- 
gesneria), aut breviora obtusiora (Räytidophyllum). Corolla supera ; 
tubo incurvo, superne plerumque ampliato v. hinc ventricoso: limbi 
labiis 2, inæqualibus imbricatis; posticis 2 in labium plus minus alte 
connatis. Stamina didynama, ima basi corollæ v. altius (Rhytido- 
phyllum) affixa ; antheris liberis v. sæpius cohærentibus, inclusis v. 
exsertis; loculis parallelis contiguis; connectivi dorso plus minus 
incrassato, Germen inferum v. semisuperum ; disco annulari perigyno 
. Subepigyno cinctum ; stylo gracili, plus minus elongato, apice stig 
Maloso concavo v. varie 2-lobo. Fructus vertice intra calycem plus 
minus alle 2-valvis; seminibus crebris: embryone carnoso; albumine 
plus minus crasso v. submembranaceo. — Frutices v. suffrulices ; 
indumento vario; foliis alternis, nune ad summos ramulos confertis, 
plus minus longe petiolatis ; floribus axillaribus solitariis v. cymosis ; 
cymis subsessilibus v. plus minus longe pedunculatis, (America calid.). 
 V5p 09. 
2. Solenophora BExTH.' -— Flores fere Gesnerie ; calyce supero 
saMOphyllo, superne 3-5-fido. Corolla longe ampliata; limbo breviter 
9-lobo, imbricato. Stamina didynama; antheris in quadram cohæ- 
rentibus. Glandula disci epigyni postica, integra v. 2-loba. Germen 
totum inferum; stylo apice concavo, sub-2-lobo. — Frutices scabri ; 
PL. Hartweg., 68, — Hanst,, in Linnæu,  Hippodamia DCNE, in Rev. hort. (1848), 464. — 
XXXIV,313. — B. H., Gen., II, 1005, n. js Artocalyx FENZL, in Denkschr. Ak. Wien, 1, 179. 
