Gloxinia

The Gloxinia affords an instance of regular congenital peloria in which the regularity of form and the erect direction are due to an arrest, not of growth, but of development, in consequence of which the changes that ordinarily ensue during the progress of the flower from its juvenile to its fully formed condition do not take place.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

_ _Hoya_, _Gesnera_, _Gloxinia_, &c. = Formation of buds in the pith.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

In cases where an habitually irregular flower becomes regular, the change in form is frequently associated with an alteration in direction both of the flower as a whole and, to a greater or less extent, of its individual members, for instance of _Gloxinia_, the normal flowers of which are irregular and pendent, there is now in common cultivation a peloriate race in which the flowers are regular in form and erect in position.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

-- "Catacorolla" of _Gloxinia_, formed from the union of adventitious petalodes on the outside of the true corolla

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

Supernumerary petaloid segments in flower of _Gloxinia_ 451 214.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

Gloxinia, and the two plants may be grown in the same house.

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

Quite as much has been done for the foliage of the Gloxinia as for its flower, and the best strains now produce grand leaves which are reflexed in such a manner as almost to hide the pot, so that the foliage presents an extremely ornamental appearance.

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

The family _Gesneraceæ_ is mainly a tropical one, represented in the greenhouses by the magnificent _Gloxinia_ and _Achimenes_, but of native plants there are only a few parasitic forms destitute of chlorophyll and with small, inconspicuous flowers.

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

= = Bulbs in store = =, such as Begonia, Dahlia, Gladiolus, and Gloxinia, should be passed in review.

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

Fig. 108 shows the usual irregular form of _Gloxinia_, with which may be contrasted figs. 109, 110 and 111.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters