. Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. C / ? 0\ 271 GESNERA ZEBRINA. (zebra-leaved GESNERA.)CLAS9. ORDER. DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. NATURAL ORDER. GESNERACE^. Generic Character.—Sec p. 243. Specific Character.—Plant .ipparently an lierbaceous perennial. Stems erect, succulent, somewhat roundish, convex, revolute, and partially crenate at the margin, pubescent, deepgreen, veined and striped with reddish purple. Spikes o/^OM-^rs terminal, ascending, very long, erect. Corolla drooping, orange-red above, pale orange below, vrith thesegments
. Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. C / ? 0\ 271 GESNERA ZEBRINA. (zebra-leaved GESNERA.)CLAS9. ORDER. DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. NATURAL ORDER. GESNERACE^. Generic Character.—Sec p. 243. Specific Character.—Plant .ipparently an lierbaceous perennial. Stems erect, succulent, somewhat roundish, convex, revolute, and partially crenate at the margin, pubescent, deepgreen, veined and striped with reddish purple. Spikes o/^OM-^rs terminal, ascending, very long, erect. Corolla drooping, orange-red above, pale orange below, vrith thesegments of the limb almost equal, and its interior, as well as the throat, spotted with red. In the history of floriculture, it usually happens that not more than two orthree plants, of the highest class of heauty, are annually hrought to light. Themain characteristic of these is, that from theii splendour at certain periods, or theirattractiveness at all times, they are calculated for continuing in cultivation almostas long as ornamental plants shall be at al
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