Curtis Botanical - Plate 1023 - Gesneria tomentosa / Woolly Gesneria

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 1023, Gesneria tomentosa (Woolly Gesneria).

• Plate: 1023
• Latin name: Gesneria tomentosa
• Common name: Woolly Gesneria
• Linnaean class / order: Didynamia / Angiospermia
• Publication: June 1, 1807
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

Original Curtis text
Transcribed from the plate's accompanying description page:

[ 1023 ]

GESNERIA TOMENTOSA. WOOLLY GESNERIA.

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Class and Order.
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Generic Character.
Cal. 5-fidus, superus. Cor. tubulofa irregularis, incurva, medio coarctata. Capf. infera, subbilocularis. Sem. lineariscobiformia.

Specific Character and Synonyms.
GESNERIA tomentosa; foliis ovato lanceolatis crenatis hirfutis, pedunculis lateralibus longiffimis corymbifferis. Sp. Pl. 851. Willd. 3. p. 251. Retz. 3. p. 124. Hort. Cliff 318. Jacq Amer. 179. t. 175. f. 64. Swartz Obl. 228. Hort. Kew. 2. p. 331. Mart. Mill. Dict. a. 3. Gert. Fruct. 2. 472. l. 177. f. 6. GESNERIA erecta, foliis lanceolatis rugofis hirfutis, pedunculis longiffimis ramofis, ex alis fuperioribus. Browne Fam. 261. DIGITALIS folio oblongo ftriato ad foliorum alas florida. Sloan. Hift. 1. p. 162. t. 104. f. 2. Raii Sup. 396. The name of GESNERIA was given to this genus by PLUMIER, in honour of CONRADE GESNER, the celebrated Swifs Naturalist, who died of the plague in the forty ninth year of his age, in his museum, whether he directed himself to be removed a little before he expired. The assigning its natural order appears to have been attended with particular difficulty. LINNAEUS, in his Fragmenta, had arranged

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