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GLOXINIA speciosa. 
Rough-leaved Brasil Gloainia. 
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DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. CAMPANULACER? Jussieu gen. 165. 
GLOXINIA. Cal. superus, 5-phyllus. — Cor. campanulata limbo ob- 
liquo. Fildmenta cum rudimento quinti receptaculo inserta. Willd. sp. pl. 
3. 229. 
G. speciosa, foliis cano-hirsutis ellipticis oblongisve crenatis, pedunculis 
erectis longioribus flore; segmentis calycis angulari-acuminatis . pubes+ 
centibus. 
Gloxinia speciosa. Loddige’s botan. cabinet. n. 28. 
Herbacea, perennis? Caulis totus foliosus, brevis? erectus. Folia oppo 
sita subovato-v. subrotundo-elliptica v. oblonga, majora 8*uncialia et ultra 
latitudine sesunciali et ultra, obtusé subacuminata, nervosa nervis crassis suc- 
- culentis subtiis varicosissimis, modd infra subpurpurascentia, infima patentis- 
sima humi appressa (anne semper?) : petioli crassi, patentissimt, supra canali- 
culati. Flores numerost, speciosi, violace?, solitarid vel per trinos azillis 
superiorum diminutorunt foliorum pacemiap dinestt : pedunculi teretes, crasst, 
erecti, pilost. Germ, breve, turbinatum, pubescens. Cal. erectus, germinis 
continuus, 5-partitus, sezmento summo in plano cum pedunculo drrecto, sub- 
majore, distantiore, reliquis. recurvo-patentibus. Cor. refracta, nutans, sés- 
guiuncialis, elongato-campanulata, obliqué bilabiata, in dorso planior cum sulco 
ehh < : ; 
medio elevato pilosiusculo, ceteriim glabra, subtus superné ventricosa pallidaque s 
tubus brevis gibbosus, basi obversus segmento postico calycis: faux maximas 
intits areola alba picté lineis punctisque atropurpureis ; limbus brevis 5-partitus, 
labio superiore bilobo reflexo, inferiore trilobo porrectiore : lobi in universunt 
_ rotundati, transversim latiores. Glandule epigyne 6 dentiformes; breves 
luteole, cum filamentis alterne, stylum bast cingentes. Fil. imo tubo inserta, 
subequalia, alba, glabra, bast bulbosa; rudimentum quinti pone stylum s 
nonnunquam provenit séxtum completum ante stylum una cum ceteris con- 
nivens: anth. ochroleuce in tnam cernuam coadunate, didymo-subglobose, 
loculorum receptaculo reniferane crasso subdiaphano. Stylus albus, ascendens, 
uncialis, Urata basi barbatus, ceteriim glaber : stigma hians, ore transe 
verse latiore, intis pruinoso. 
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‘Groxinta differs from Marryyra in having a superior 
instead of an inferior calyx, and was first separated from 
the latter genus by the learned and sagacious L’Heritier. 
It differs from Gesnerta in not having a tubular corolla. 
The present species makes the second now on record. It is 
very ornamental, and continues in blossom for a month or 
more together. Lately introduced from the Brasils. The 
drawing was taken from a plant which flowered this sum- 
mer in the hothouse at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and 
Kennedy, Hammersmith. ' 
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