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short, fleshy, at first pale-yellow, finally white. Native of West 

 Indies, Garden Sewree. Presented by Sir Cursetjee Jamseljee. 



10. Beowallia Cervias RowsKi. — A species raised from seed 

 sent by Lawson and Sons ; flower much larger than in the other 

 Browallias, probably only a cultivated variety. 



LXVIL— OROBANCHE^, Don's Syst. 4, p 629. 



PENTESTEMON, Didynamia Angiospermia, Alton Hort. Kew. 

 3, p511. 



I , P Gentianoides. — Native of Mexico ; a beautiful, herba- 

 ceous plant, distinguishable by having one of the four filaments 

 sterile ; long-lanceolate entire leaves ; a violet colour ; downy corolla, 

 flowering on several peduncles, but not rounded ; the lower lip of 

 the corolla trifid, and wants the down which covers the remainder. 

 Garden Dapoorie. 



LXVIII.—GESNERACE^, Don's Syst. 4, p 644. 



GESNERIA, Didynamia Angiospermia. All these are very 

 showy plants, natives of Brazil, and now partially naturalised in 

 Indian gardens. Named by Plumier in honour of Gesner, a 

 Botanist of Zurich. 



1. G DouGLASii, Lind. in Bot. Reg. t. 1 1 10. — Pubescent with 

 ovate acute, toothed leaves, and drooping, orange-coloured corolla, 

 varied with darker stripes. We are of opinion that G bulbosa, 

 mentioned in the 1st edition of the Catalogue, No. 1086, must 

 have been intended for this plant. 



2. G Zebrina. — Is so called from the varied colour of the 

 leaves, which are from deep-green to dark-purple, and very beau- 

 tiful; flower much as in G douglasii. Dapoorie. 



GLOXINIA, Didynamia Angiospermia. Named in honour of 

 B. p. Gloxin, a Botanist of Colmar. 



3. G Speciosa. — Hispid with villous peduncles ; ovate, 

 crenate leaves, and corolla large, bluish-purple. Gardens, rare. 

 Dapoorie. 



Of the beautiful Achimenes which belong to this order, we 

 may enumerate the following varieties : — Achimenes longiflora, 

 A major, A grandiflora, A skinneri gigantea, A sp. Indet, 

 These are all annual, appearing in full flower in August and 

 September, and preserved as Dahlias are for next season, by bury- 

 ing the roots in sand. 

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