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GESNERIA. aggregata. 
New Brazil Gesneria. | 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMTA, 
Nat. ord. CAMPANULACER. Jussieu gen. 163. Div. I. Anthere dis. 
tinctee. 
’ GrsNere®. Richard apud Kunth nov. gen. et spec. 2. 315. - 
GESNERIA. Cal. germini adnatus ; limbo libero, 5-partito. Cor. 
tubulosa, superné ampliata; limbo bilabiato; labio superiore emarginato- 
bilobo, inferiore 3-fido. Stig. bilobum. Caps. calyce vestita, 1-locularis, 
2-valvis; placentis parietalibus 2 oppositis, bilamellatis._, ; 
Herbe, suffrutices aut frutices foliis oppositis, ternis aut quaternis, inte- 
gris. Pedunculi azilares 1- aut multi- flori, aut spice terminales. Corolle 
coccinee aut virescentes. Kunth loc. cit. 
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G. aggregata, tota villosa; ramis teretibus; foliis oppositis oblongo-ovatis 
crenatis ; pedunculis 2-4, axillaribus, unifloris, aggregatis; corollis 
clavato-cylindricis, hinc basi subdidymo-ventricosis. 
’ Herbacea? erecta. Fol. rugosa, subtis tomentoso-aibicantia ; petiolus 
pluries brevior lamina. Pedunculi filiformes, flexiles, longiores floribus nu- 
tantibus. Cal. herbaceus, 4-plo brevior corolla, segmentis stellato-patentibus 
angulato-ovatis, uno submajore. Cor. coccinea, villosa, rectiuscula, subuncia- 
lis, diametro feré penne scriptorie, posticé ad basin ventre brevi abrupto sub- 
didymo-protuberante: limbus subequalis multoties brevior tubo, obsoleté bila- 
biatus, laciniis rotundatis, 2 infimis lateralibus imbricato-conniventibus. Stam. 
@qualia corolle, rudimentum quinti nullum:; fil. alba, glabra: anth. subgua- 
drato-connexe, 4-loculares, loculis receptaculo carnoso papilloso insitis: pollen. 
ochroleucum. Germ. conicum, villosum, angustum, subbrevius segmentis 
calycinis: stylus jiliformis, continuus, villosiusculus, cuniculatus: stigma 
apertum, simplex. Glandule 4 ad juncturam calycis cum germine in- 
serte, 3 albe parvule dentiformes equidistantes, 1 lutea superior major du- 
plicato-dentiformise 
As far as we have been able to trace, the present species 
appears to be unrecorded. It has been very lately introduced 
from the Brazils. Flowers in the summer, and continues 
by a succession of bloom a long while in beauty. The 
drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, — 
Brames, and Milne, at Fulham, where it is cultivated in 
the hothouse, but not in the tan-pit. Begin : 
It answers very well to the specific character of the 
Gesneri tubiflora of Cavanilles; but a reference to the de- - 
tailed description and the figure of that species, allowing 
even for their being obtained from a dried plant, proves to us 
that the two can never be of the same species. 3 
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