GLOXIN'IA SPECIO'SA. 
~ SHOWY GLOXINIA. 
EXOGENE. : OR DICOTYLEDONES. 
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NATURAL ORDER, GESNERACEA, 
CALYCIFLORA, Artificial divisions 
OF to which AN apache ev AE 
DECANDOLLE. this Plant a OF LINNEUS. 
No. 105. ‘ 
GENUS. Guoxinta.. I’ Heririzr. Catyx ovarii Sean niasies, limbo a 
quepartito libero. Cororza semisuperior obliqua, infundibuliformis aut ca: 
ta subringens, basi postice gibba, tubo ventricoso, limbi patuli fabio superiore | bilobo, 
i ilobo. is coherentibus ; rudim 
quinti posticum. GLANDULZ quinque perigyne, Capsota uniloealars, bivalvis, 
placentis duabus parietalibus epiits seminibus numerosis oblongis. TUBER crassum. 
Cavtis simplex vel subnullus, Forta opposita crassa, Pook s ted axillares, 
-saieeeaerte: yen SPECIOSA. LoppicEs. Fouts cano-hirsutis ovali-ellip- 
ticis » pedunculis ae flore longioribus, segmentis calycis angu- 
latis ccominadll Gihercentha. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, a iss: CALyxi eto 
half of the ovary, the limb five-cleft, free. Coro semai-iupexian, 
oblique, funnel shaped or bellshaped somewhat gaping at the mouth, 
the tube gibbous at the base on the upper side, swelled in the middle, 
the limbs preading two-lipped, the upper lip of two, the lower of three 
divisions. Stamens four, didynamous, the anthers cohering. Rupi- 
MENT of a fifth stamen on the upper side. GLanps five, perigynous. 
CapsuteE one-celled, two-valved, with two parietal two-cleft placente, 
and numerous oblong seeds. Ss 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, GLOXINIA SPECIOSA, -Tuser 
thick. Svem thick, simple, sometimes very short and entirely concealed 
by the leaves, sometimes lengthened out to the dimensions. of a foot, 
always more or less hairy. L&aves varying in size from four to six or 
eight inches in length, borne on short or long footstalks, more or less 
ovate and elliptical, sometimes very broad and rounded or even heart- 
shaped at the base, occasionally, especially the upper ones narrowed 
at the base, always crenate, soft, thick, convex or bullate, and covered 
with whitish hairs on both sides; upper floral leaves generally reduced 
to a very small size. FLowers large and numerous, forming a hand- 
some bunch within the leaves, usually shorter than they are, sometimes 
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