No. 1939. 



GESNERIA DOUGLASSII. 



Claw. Order. 



DID YNA MIA A NGIOSPERMIA 



This is a native of Rio Janeiro, where it 

 was discovered in 1824, by the indefatiga- 

 ble traveller whose name it bears ; who, 

 with most active zeal and industry, has 

 done, and is doing, so much for botanical 

 science — not merely by accumulating for 

 the dead gardens of dry collectors, but 

 for the living splendour of almost every 

 garden in Europe, through the whole of 

 which the beautiful plants which he first 

 discovered have been disseminated. 



Our present subject requires the stove : 

 it flowers in the spring, continuing long in 

 succession. It may be increased by divid- 

 ing the root, which is tuberous ; and 

 should be potted in rich light earth. 



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