343° 
_GESNERIA bulbosa. 
Bulbous Gesneria. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. CAMPANULACER. Jussieu gen. 163. Div. I. Anthere dis- 
tinct. t 
ESNEREX, Richard apud Kunth nov. gen. et spec. 2, 345. 
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GESNERIA. Supra fol. 329. 
G. bulbosa, tota pubescens; foliis oppositis, ovato-ellipticis, basi cordatis, 
serrato-crenatis; panicula numerosi, subopposité, patente, distante;” 
pedunculis corymbosis brevioribus pedicellis; limbi inzqualissimi labio 
summo porrecto oblongo maximo, imo brevissimo revoluto. _ 
Herbacea, rhizomate perenni bulbi ad instar rotundato, tunicd Fusca mem-= 
branaced. Caulis simplex? erectus, subflexuosus, teres, bipedalis, distantdr 
JSoliosus. Folia carnosula, subtis densius tomentosa, decrescentia, majora. 
_ subduncialia latitudine triunciali; petiolus crassus, brevis. Pedunculi corym= — 
boso-multiflori foliolis diminutis sensim superné bracteaceis subtensi, pedicelli 
ae bracteola subulata herbaced solitaria ad basin. Foliola calycis brevia, 
subulata, herbacea, subbreviora fundo externo subrotundo pubescente germinis, 
cujus marginem parietalem continuant. Corolla coccinea, pubescens, clavato- 
tubulosa, diametro.feré penne olorine, basi circumcirea_protuberans ; labiis 
limbi tnequalissimis, summo elliptico-oblongo concolori egeerbis deflexis, imo 
obliquato intits macula atropurpured albo-marginata picto. Vil. pubescentia, 
rubentias anth. cruciato-connexe. Stylus persistens, exsertus, coccineus, pu- 
bescens. 
We do not trace this fine plant in any recorded species. — 
It differs from all we are acquainted with, by the round 
bulblike rootstock and by the great inequality of the limb of 
the corolla. Not having had an opportunity of inspecting the 
_inflorescence, after the drawing was made, we have described — 
that part of the plant from the figure. 
Recently introduced by Mr. Lee, of the. Hammersmith. . 
Nursery. It was sent him from the Brazils, where it is 
native, by Mr. Chamberlain, the English Consul at Rio — 
Janeiro; and flowered for the first time with us in Sep- 
tember. It requires to be kept in the bark-bed of the hot- 
house; where it proves a most valuable ornament by the — 
beauty, abundance, and long succession of the bloom. 
Herbaceous, perennial, furred. Rootstock fleshy, re- 
sembling a round bulb, covered with a brown membranous _ 
coat, Stem simple? slightly flexuous, round, about two 
feet high, distantly leaved. Leaves opposite, rather fleshy, 
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