limb five-cleft, segments roundish, nearly equal, spreading, spotted. 
Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted on the base of the corolla, slightly 
protruding beyond the throat. FitamEenTs smooth. ANTHERS ovate, 
two-celled, cohering in pairs. Ovary half-inferior, pilose. STyLe 
pilose, included within the corolla. Stiama two-lobed. CapsuLe 
ovate-conical, invested by the persistent calyx, pilose, one-celled ; de- 
hiscing only at the apex into two valves; placente 2, opposite, 
parietal, formed of two lamelle, or plates. SEDs numerous, small. 
Poputar and Geocrapuicat Notice. The majority of plants 
belonging to the tribe of Gesneracee, of which the genus to which our 
present species appertains is the type, are found exclusively in South 
America and the West India Islands. The native spot of Gesneria 
elongata cannot be stated with precision, since Humboldt, who disco- 
vered it, does not seem to remember where he found it; he, therefore, 
sets down Quito as its habitat, but with a note of interrogation, ex- 
pressive of his doubts as to the accuracy of this locality. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; Cuxtture. The leaves of many 
species of Gesneria, and probably of this one among others, when — 
taken off close to the stem and planted, are capable of producing a new 
plant, with perfect root and stem. The explanation of which pecu- 
liarity may be, that at the base of the petiole of the leaf, where it joins 
the stem, are situated some latent or undeveloped buds, which, when 
placed under the new conditions above mentioned, are stimulated and 
become fully developed; see Professor Henslow’s Descriptive and 
Physiological Botany, page 286, (293) for an account of the leaves of 
the Bryophyllum; and also at p. 52 (60). Our drawing was made 
from a plant, two feet high, which flowered in September last, in the 
stove of the Messrs. Pope, of Handsworth, Staffordshire. Several Bri- 
tish cultivators imported this species from the Continent in 1835. 
We are not aware of its having been introduced previously. 
DERIVATION OF THE NAMEs. 
GEsNERIA, or (as it ought to be) Gesnenra, in honour of Conrad Gesner, one 
of the fathers of modern natural history, born at Zurich in 1516, died 1565. 
Exoneata, elongated, in reference to, the length of bre bara bearing the 
flowers, which is greater than in the other known speci 
SyNONYMES. 
GESNERIA ELONGATA. boldt, Bonpland, and Kunth, Nova 2 et 
Species, Vol, II, p. 318, t. = pore Species Plantarum, Vol. II, p. 838. 
