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CALCEOLARIA* floribunda 



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Many -flowered Lady's Slipper 



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DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



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Nat. ord. Scrophularine^e. 

 CALCEOLARIA. — SuprH, vol 9. fol. 723. 



C. Jloribunda ; hirtello-viscosaj foliis ovatis basi attenuatis amplexicaulibus 

 dentatis pubescentibus, superioribus cordatis sessilibus, racemis paten- 

 tissimis pendulisve bifidis multifloris, sepalis ovatis, floribus geminis. 

 C. floribunda. Humh. BonpL et Kunth nov. gen. et sp. pL 2. 309. Romer 



et Schultes syst. veg, 7. 160. Spreng. syst. L 46. 

 C. paniculata. Herb. Willd. sec. R. et S. 

 C. connata, Bot. mag. 2876. 



Planta 3-pedaliSy erecta, ramosa, in hortis herbacea, subannua, vero- 

 similiter in solo natali suffrutescens. Caulis erectus, teres, glanduloso-hir* 

 sutus, viscosus, percurrens {axin occupans), undi ramos quosdam^ paucos 

 verb, emittit. Folia l^te viridia, glanduloso-pubescentia, subrtigosa,utrinque 

 concolora, dentata, acuta, inferiora ovata in petiolum attenuata, amplexi- 

 caulia, superiora sessilia, alt^ cordata, demum in bracteis cordatis integer^ 

 rimis mutata. Racemi glanduloso-pilosi, glutinosi, axillares, longk pe^ 

 dunculati, patentissimi^ vel penduli, multijlori, bijidi, foliis duplb v. triplb 

 longiores, mox in paniculam copiosayn ad Jastigium evanescentes. Flores 

 subsecundiy geminati. Calyx pedicello duplb brevior, sepalis subrotundo- 

 ovatis. Corolla /?ai7a, labiis conniventibus . 



forms 



A fine hardy species, newly introduced from Chile. It 



an upright, branching plant, covered with a pro- 



fusion of drooping racemes of delicate, pale-yellow blossoms, 

 during all the autumn. In its own country it appears to 

 be suffrutescent ; but with us it is better treated as an 

 annual, turned into the open border in May, and left in 

 the autumn to perish with others of similar habits. It will 



* So called from calceolus, a slipper; in allusion to the figure of the 



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corolla. 



