462 GBSNEKIACE^. 



leaves 4"-li", petioles 2"'-4"', caljx-lobea 2"'-3"', corolla 8'" long, the latter 2"| diam.— 

 Hab. Jamaica 1, Fd., in rooky, calcareous mountains, Hanover, summit of Dolphin's Peak. 



15. C. Sloanei, iJC. Suffruticose, simple; down villous; leaves spathulate-oblonff, 

 pointed, crenate-serrate, and repand, membranaceous, rugose, scabrous, villous on the ribs 

 beneath ; flowers fascicled in the axils : pedicels about as long as the petiole ; cahjx-tube 

 obtusely Vi-costate : lobes linear-acuminate, much shorter than the coroUa-tute, at length 

 excrescent, spreading; corolla crimson, slightly puberulous: tube incurved, clavate-cyMn- 

 drical, much longer than the small, roundish, oblique lobes. — SI. t. 102./. 1. — Gesnera 

 acaolia, i., Sw. C. hispida, Benih. /— Nalced part of the stem 6"-18" high, or reduced ; 

 leaves 6"-4", petioles 2"'-3"' (-6'"), calyx-lobes' 3"'-4"', (at length -8'"), coroUa li" long. 

 —Hab. Jamaica!, all coU., common on calcareous rocks. 



16. C. litaanensis, Gr. Suffruticose, low, simple ; down scabrous ; leaves spathulate- 

 oblong, unequally serrate, and repand, membranaceous, rugose, rougMsh, scabrous on the 

 ribs beneath ; flowers fascicled in the axils ; pedicels short, at length excrescent ; cah/x- 

 tube at length- obtusely XO-cdstate : lobes lanceolate, acuminate, half or one-third as long 

 as the corolla-tube ; corolla crimson, pubescent ; tnbe incurved, clavate-cylindrical, much 

 longer than the small, roundish, subequal lobes. — Bot. Mag. t. 4380. — Gesnera, Morr. 

 Ophianthe, Hanst. Rytidophyllum floribundum, Houtt. — Naked part of the stem often 

 only 1" long ; rosular leaves 4"-2", petioles l"'-2"', calyx-lobes 3"'-l"', corolla 9"'-10"' 

 long. — Hab. Jamaica !, Jlfac/"., ia«e ; [Cuba 1, Haiti I]. 



*** Corolla-tube narrowly campanulate, straightish : limb short, oblique ; reduced stem 

 herbaceous. (Chorisanthera, Bon.) 



17. C pumila, Mart. Nearly stemless, herbaceous ; down jointed ; leaves cuneate- 

 spathulate, blunt, crenate above, subsessile, membranaceous : hairs scattered ; peduncles 

 1-2-flowered, exceeded by the leaves ; calyx-tube ovate-oblong, subecostate : lobes lanceo- 

 late, bluntish, one-third as long as the corolla- tube ; corolla white, " purple at the base," 

 narrowly campanulate : lobes short, unequal, spreading-erect, rounded, cUiate : the superior, 

 lip equalling the stamens. — Gesnera, Sw. — Koot perennial; rosular leaves 3"-] i", peduncles 

 l"-i , corolla 6'" long. — Hab. Jamaica!, Pd., IFullscM., on moist rocks, Manchester, 

 Westmoreland. 



Teibe II. BBSLEMIEJE. — Embryo cylindrical, enclosed by albumen or nearly exalbu- 

 minous (Cyrtandrese). Calyx free from the ovary. — Leaves opposite: one often smaller 

 iu the pair (or reduced). 



Episcia and Tussacia, having been found by Bentham nearly devoid of albumen, would 

 form a passage into Oyrtand/rece, which I know no longer how to distinguish from Besleriea. 



8. EPISCIA, Mart. 



Calyx 5-partite, equal. Corolla infundibular, straightish, narrower than the subequal 

 limb : stamens inserted near its base ; filaments connected in pairs. Capsule medianicide. 

 — Flaccid, pilose herbs ; peduncles axillary, few-i-flowered. 



18: B. melittifolia, Mart. Stem ascending; leaves elliptical, pointed, crenate, long- 

 petioled, glabrescent ; peduncles about as loug as the petiole : flowers purple ; cslyx-segments 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, about half as long as the deflexed corolla-tube. — Bot. Mag. 

 t. 4720.— Besleria, L. Skiophila, Banst.—V high or lower ; leaves 8"-4", calyx 4"'-5"' 

 long.— Hab. Dominica!, Imr., S.Vincent!, Guild.; Trinidad!, Cr. ; [French islands!, 

 Sieb. Mart, supjit. 14, in moist woods]. 



19. E.? subacaulis, Gr. (.n. sp). Stemless, or stem reduced ; leaves approfcimate, 



spathulate-oblong, pointed, subserrate above, cuneate at the subsessile base : down scattered ; 

 peduncles few-flowered, half as loug as the leaves ; calyx-segments ovate-lanceolate, pointed. 

 — Our specimens are in fruit ; membranaceous leaves 6"-3", calyx 3"' long, its segments 

 reticulated, exceeding the capsule. — Hab. Trinidad !, Cr., Las Cuevas. 



