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CALCEOLARIA* cr en at i flora. 



Crenate-flowered Calceolaria. 





DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Scrophula rineje Juss. (Introduction to the natural system 

 of Botany, p. 228.) 



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



C crenatiflora ; herbacea, foliis ovatis sublobatis dentatis infenoribus prae- 

 cipe petiolatis utrinque cauleque pubescentibus subobhquis, Horibus 

 corymbosis, labio superiore minimo inferiore amplo maculato crenato, 

 laciniis calycinis late ovatis nervosis. Hooker in Hot. mag. 3255. 



C. crenatiflora. Cavan. ic. 5. 28. t. 446. Graham in Edmb. phil. journ. 

 June 1833. 



C anomala. Pers. synops. 1. 16. 



C. pendula. Brit.fi. gard. 1. 155. 



C suberecta. Hort. 



One of the handsomest of the Chilian Calceolarias, 

 collected in the Island of Chiloe both by Mr James 

 Anderson and Mr. Cuming ; from the latter of whom we 

 have a specimen numbered 52. 



It is an herbaceous plant, growing from a foot to two 

 feet high, and of a remarkably dark rich green in the foliage. 

 The root-leaves are stalked, broadly ovate, blunt, created, 

 and slightly hairy. The stem has two or three pairs oi 

 opposite, smaller, sessile leaves, which are nearly entire, 

 and either obtuse or taper-pointed. The flowers grow in 

 large loose corymbs, and have slender, rather long, and 

 slightly hairy ramifications, which are neither hoary nor 

 clammy ; the calyxes are green and hairy ; the | eorollas 

 very large, bright yellow spotted with crimson, the upper 

 lip small and emarginate, the lower bagged, with about 



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