Seemannia
(named after Berthold Seemann, 1825-1871, a botanist and traveller). ORD. Gesneraceae. A monotypic genus. The species is a strigose-pubescent, stove, perennial herb, with a creeping rhizome, closely allied to Achimenes and Isoloma. For culture, see Gesnera.
S. Benaryi (Benary's). A synonym of S. silvatica.
S. silvatica (sylvan). fl. of a bright scarlet, on solitary, axillary pedicels; calyx with an adnate tube and five narrow lobes; corolla tube shortly gibbous at base, the limb of very short, erecto-patent lobes; stamens affixed to the base of the corolla. Winter. l. three or four in a whorl, very shortly petiolate, often canescent beneath; upper ones gradually reduced to bracts. h. 3ft. to 4ft. Peru. SYNS. S. Benaryi (R. G. 814), S. ternifolia (R. G. 126).
S. ternifolia (ternate-leaved). A synonym of S. silvatica.