Dicotyledons with Gamopetalous Flowers. 
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Natural Order 
GESNERACEHL 
D iagnosis. -Herbs usually with opposite leaves. Corolla hypogynous, 
irregular. Stamens epipetalous, fewer than corolla-lobes, usually didyna- 
mous. Ovary i-celled, with parietal placentation and numerous ovules. 
Distribution.— A considerable Natural Order almost confined to hot countries, and most 
numerous in Intertropical America. But a solitary species occurs in Western Europe, confined to the 
Pyrenees (Ramondia). 
USES, &c. — Of no economic value, but many of the species are remarkably beautiful and found in every 
hot-house, as species of Achimenes , Gloxinia , Tydcea , Gesnera, Columnea, sEschynqnthus and Streptocarpus. 
Some species of the last-named South African genus are remarkable in having one of the cotyledons persistent, 
enlarged, and at length foliaceous. 
Natural Order 
BORAGINACE^E. Tab. 62. 
Diagnosis. —Herbs often hairy, with alternate simple leaves. Corolla 
hypogynous ; regular or slightly irregular. Stamens epipetalous, as many 
as lobes of the corolla and alternate with them. Ovary 4-lobed, 4-celled, 
with 1 ovule in each cell. Style 1, usually gynobasic. 
