. Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. ,.,.//^:. I 243 GESNERA MOLLIS. (downy gesneua.) class. order. DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. NATURAL nilDRIl. GESNERACE^. Generic Character.—Calyx adnate to the ovariuni ; limb nearly equally five-lobed, free. Corollahalf-superior, tubular, ?nitli five gibbosities at the base ; limb sub-bilabiate; upper lip dra^vn out,emarginately two-lobcd; lower lip threc-lobed. Stamens didjnamous, with the rudiment of a fifthbehind ; anthers at first cohering into a round head. Glands five, or fewer, around tlie dry in the caly,\, on
. Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. ,.,.//^:. I 243 GESNERA MOLLIS. (downy gesneua.) class. order. DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. NATURAL nilDRIl. GESNERACE^. Generic Character.—Calyx adnate to the ovariuni ; limb nearly equally five-lobed, free. Corollahalf-superior, tubular, ?nitli five gibbosities at the base ; limb sub-bilabiate; upper lip dra^vn out,emarginately two-lobcd; lower lip threc-lobed. Stamens didjnamous, with the rudiment of a fifthbehind ; anthers at first cohering into a round head. Glands five, or fewer, around tlie dry in the caly,\, one-celled, incompletely two-valved ; placentas two, parietal, scrobiform.—Dons Gard. and Botany. Specific Character. — Plant perennial, subshrubby. Branches hairy. Leaves opposite, obliquelyovate-oblong, acuminate, freely toolhetl, densely covered with downy hair above, whitish with downbeneath. Peduncles a.\illary, usually one or three-flowered. Corolla tubular, inflated, pubescent;limb five-cleft, almost equal, spotted. Theke are se
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