glandular pubescence, much thicker on the midrib and veins. Perp- 
UNCLES numerous, erect, two to three inches long, simple or more fre- 
quently branched in the same manner as the cymes of other Gesneras, 
but in a vertical instead of a horizontal direction, each peduncle bear- 
ing occasionally as many as eight or ten flowers, linear bracts are 
placed at the base of each pedicel and the whole cyme is pubescent 
and glandular. Catyx pubescent, the divisions of the limb lanceolate, 
acuminate, equal in length to the tube. Coroxta in well-flowered 
specimens an inch and a half in length, slightly curved, glabrous, of a 
rich red. Lime of four broad rounded spreading divisions of which 
the upper one is broader dnd more or less deeply divided into two. 
STaMEns four, inserted in the base of the tube, filaments filiform of 
the length of the tube. ANTHERS yellow, cohering together. Fifth 
rudimentary stamen, very short and filiform. Two glands at the base 
of the ovary on the upper side. Ovary pubescent. Styx glabrous. 
Poputar anp GeocrapHicaL Notice. The genus Geésnera is 
diffused over the whole of the warmer portion of America and extends 
northward to the Tierra Caliente as far as Mexico, and southward 
to the southern extremity of Brazil, containing a large number of species, 
many of which are already in cultivation, bearing a conspicuous share 
in the ornament of our stoves. Amongst these, few are likely to be 
more sought after than the present one, whether for its singularity, or 
for its great beauty, when well-flowered so as to give it a rich colour - 
and large sized corolla. It is a native of the southern provinces of 
Brazil. G. B. 
InTRODUCTION ; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. This plant was first 
raised some years since in the very rich and well-managed Botanical 
Garden at Berlin, amongst other plants received from one of their col- 
lectors in Brazil. It was transmitted from thence to the Edinburgh 
Botanic Garden, in 1834, under the name of Gesnera rupestris of Mar- 
tius and was still grown under that name when we were at Berlin, 
in 1836. We cannot however find any such species published by Mar- 
tius. It is certainly not the Gesnera rupicola, nor has it the leaves, 
nor precisely the flowers of Gesnera tuberosa, although it much resem- 
bles it. From the Edinburgh Botanic Garden it has been liberally dis-_ 
tributed, and the fine specimen here figured was grown in the nursery 
of Messrs. Rollisson of Tooting. It flowers very freely as a stove 
plant under the same treatment as the other Gesneras. 
Derivation or THE NAMEs. 
* GesneRa named by Linneus in honour of Conrad Gesner, a distinguished bot- 
.  anist of the sixteenth century. Rupestris growing in rocks. 
a SyNonyMEs. 
Geswera nurestRis. Graham, in Edinburgh Philosophical Seareai, Dace 
Guonnna tusErosa. Hooker, Botanical Magazine, t. sss is in: 
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