GESNE'RA RUPESTRIS. 
ROCKY GESNERA. 
pee oa ; OR DICOTYLEDONE. 
Nati pai — 
te this phe a} 
NATURAL ORDER, GESNERIACE. 
| serge: eae DIDYNAMIa, 
this booby ae : “OF LINNEUS. 
No. 91. 
CALYCIFLORZE, 
OF 
DECANDOLLE. 
GENUS. Gretunt! neil Catyx ovario leviter adnatus, limbo sub- 
inequaliter quinguepartito. Coroxta tubulosa, ima basi quinquegibbosa, lim- 
bo subbilabiato, a ee emarginato bilobo, inferiore trilobo. Stamina 
quatuor idynams; um quinti posticirudimento. ANTHER# primum in hemi- 
spherium Citic, Geamvona quingae — pauciores cires ovarium. Car- 
spermis. SEMIN scrotiformiz ja. Herne & ope tuberum solidoram perennantes 
molles. * Fora oppo vel verticillata crassiuscula. * Fiores in cymulas op- 
positas thyrsum terminalem constituentes dispositi, pulchre co¢cinei, miniati 
aut porpurscntes, rarius virides. Marrivs: Nova Genera et Species Planta- 
rum, v. 3, p. 
SPECIES. . | GESNERA RUPESTRIS. _Granam. _Rapice tuberosa saneaual 
. canli bus"p 
= ie one 
le tubo eo teen curvato, rect audio patente lacinia superiore latiore 
bifida, glandulis hypogynis posticis binis. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, ee ie Caxyx slightly adhering 
to the ovary, the limb unequally fre-cleft.. Coroiza tubular, with 
five small protuberances at the base, the limb somewhat two-lipped 
the upper one emarginate or two-cleft, he lower one of three divisions. 
Stamens four didynamous, | with the rudiment of the fifth upper one. 
ANTHERS at first cohering in a hemisphere. Five or fewer glands. 
round the ovarium, CaPsuLE dry, one-celled, imperfectly two-valved, ; 
with two parietal many-seeded placente. SrEps ees 
—— OF THE Species, GESNERA RUPESTRIS. in 
“consisting of a large somewhat flattened tube, from ee proceed 
few short fibres. Stem apparently none, being in fact reduced toa. 
_very short prolongation of the tuber of the root, upon which are p 
the leaves and peduncles. Leaves usually two only, opposii site. Foor 
STALK about an inch long, downy; limb of the leaf, varying from. 
three or four to six or eight inches long and from three to six broad, — 
ovate, sore peltate, the footstalk: bein ng inserted | from aed to- 
; é ely |, rather thick, bullate, 
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