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GESNERIA prasinata. 
Ringed-stemmed Gesneria. 
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DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. CAMPANULACER. Jussieu gen. 163. Div. Anthere dis- 
tincte. 
Grsnerex. Richard et Jussieu in ann. mus. 5. 428. 
GESNERIA. Supra vol. 4. fol. 329. 
G. prasinata, tota pubescens; foliis ovali-lanceolatis, supra velutino-hirtis : 
petiolis annulo subarticulatim insertis, panicula subfoliosa, floribus sub- 
geminatis, fauce campanulata subtis inflata, limbo brevi obliquo revoluto 
subsequali. 
Caulis fruticosus, erectus, annulatus ; rami superne subsucculenti, estriati, 
teretes, villoso-hirti, distantér foliosi, inferne fuscescentes. Fol. crassiuscula, 
decussata, patentia, acuminata, bast attenuata, costato-nervosa, serrata, 4-5- 
uncialia, subtis sericeo-tomentosa, albicantia, varicoso-nervosa: petiol. brevis, 
crassus, subteres, convoluto-canaliculatus, annulo prominente subarticulato- 
insertus. Pedunculi oppositi, crasst, brevissimi, subbiflori,, in foliis sensim 
bracteaceis atque caducis aaillares ; pedicer longiores, ascendentes, robusti. 
Cal. herbaceus, semisuperus, 2-3-plo brevior corolla, velutinus, foliolis lanceo- 
latis acuminatis equalibus. Cor. viridis, nigro-punctata, sesquiuncialis v. 
ultra, subbilabiato-infundibuliformis, fords villosissima ; tubus cylindricus, bast 
circumcirca protuberans, subequalis fauct ; limbus obliquus, fauce subduplo 
brevior, laciniis subrotundis. Fil. glabra: quinti rudimentum scarioso-mem~ 
branaceum subulatum brevissimum: anth. cruciato-coadunate, receptaculis 
loculorum glanduloso-crassis: pollen ochroleucum. Germ. oblongum, rostrato- 
yramidatum, obtusé 3-gonum, 3-sulcum, subtilissimé velutinum, crassé ros- 
tratum, inferne pallens, bast serto cinctum brevi glanduloso sublutescente 
5-dentato, dentibus ovatis equalibus obtusis basz callis v. carunculis 5 fusces 
interstinctis, pone apicem poro foratis sub anthest guita limpidd madente: stylus 
rostri germinis continuus. 
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We do not find our plant reducible to any established 
species within our research. It flowered this summer at 
Wormleybury, for the first time. The specimen for the 
drawing was kindly sent us by Sir Abraham Hume. 
Native of the Brazils. 
Stem shrubby, upright, prominently ringed ; branches 
somewhat succulent, round, furrowless, roughly villous, dis- 
tantly leaved, when full grown brown. Leaves thickish, de- 
cussately opposite, spreading, ovally lanceolate, taper- 
pointed, narrowed at both ends, ribbed, serrate, 4-5 inches 
long, the fur on their upper side close and hard, like that 
of plush, on the under side soft and glossy, white: petioles 
