GESNE’RA LATERITIA, 
‘K-COLOURED GESNERA. 
EXOGENA, §- i! OR DICOTYLEDONE 2. 
CALYCIFLORA, , 
OF 
DECANDOLLE 
Artificial divisions DIDYNAMIA, 
to which pe Sainte ato 
this Plant belongs LINNEUS, 
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at vestita, unilocularis bivalvis; placentis parietalibus — 
ef iS, pos nellatis. Humboipr, Bowpzaw», er Kuwrn. Nova 
et Siaolas iecitiatinn, Vol. IH, p. 315. 
Fx CIES. Ee Senile! sigh ute Hensacta, foliis subrotundo- 
; ovatis cordatis rugos hirs 
__busque geminatis, tieitel sibs ceipecicnatiban planis, a tomento- 
sis, labio superiore ob _. ee bilobo, a truncato, Linptey. In 
Botanical Regumets folio 
RACTER OF THE Cureegllagie. pea attached: to the 
imb free, five-parted. Corowa tubular, widened towards _ 
sr part; limb two-lipped, upper lip emarginately two-lobed, 
lower lip three-cleft. Stamens 4, didynamous. Sriema_ two-lobed. 
APSULE covered by the ealyx, one-celled, two-valved ; placente 2, My, 
arietal, opposite, consisting each of two plates, or Jamelle. 5 
j DESCRIPTION OF THE SPEcIES, GESNERA LATERITIA. A herbace- 
ous plant with an erect simple stem, which like every part of the plant 
is clothed with hairs. Leaves opposite, roundedly or ovately-cordate, 
crenate or toothed, Tugose, hairy, veins very conspicuous on both sur- 
faces. PEDUNCLES axillary, or terminal, the lower ones solitary, the 
upper ones geminate, the bracts sessile, amplexicaul, plane ; pedicels 
reddish. Caxyx ovate, 5-toothed, teeth lanceolate acute. Corotta 
woolly, of a brick-red colour, about an inch long, nearly cylindrical, 
but contracted at the base, divided into an upper and under lip, upper 
lip oblong, concave, of equal width at the base as at the apex, two- 
lobed, over-hanging the mouth of the corolla, lower lip obscurely three 
lobed, truncated. Stamens 4, didynamous adhering at the base to 
the tube of the corolla, at the upper part free, and protruding beyond 
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