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* CALCEOLARIA angustiflora. 
Narrow-flowered Calceolaria. 
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DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. SCROPHULARINEA Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System 
of Botany, p. 228.) : 
CALCEOLARIA.—Supra, vol. 9. p. 723. 
C. angustiflora ; caule perenni diffuso, foliis cordato-ovatis duplicato-serratis 
glabris oppositis ternatisque, pedunculis axillaribus paucifloris sepius pani- 
culam angustissimam foliosam efficientibus, corolla labio inferiore obtuso basi 
angustato superiore minimo. 
C. angustiflora. Ruiz et Pavon. Fl. Peruv. vol. 1. p. 17. t. 28. f. a. Graham 
in Bot. Mag. t. 3094. 
? C. verticillata. Hooker Bot. Misc. vol. 2. 233. 
A half hardy perennial, flowering in August and Septem- 
ber, and remarkable among its race for its prostrate habit, 
deep green, somewhat shining leaves, and small flowers. 
It was found first by the authors of the Flora Peruviana, in 
the valley of Canta in Peru ; subsequently Mr. Cruckshanks 
discovered it at Culluay in the same district, and gathered 
the seeds from which the plants in our gardens were obtained. 
It is a species of no great attraction, but deserves to be 
recorded in this work, as one of the genuine wild forms of a 
genus, which, however beautiful and interesting, has already 
begun to sink in estimation, in consequence of the ruin that 
has been brought upon it by the unskilfulness of gardeners. 
In their haste to improve the works of nature, these gentle- 
men have converted some of the fáirest races in the Vegetable 
world, into forms in no case more beautiful than the original, 
and in the majority of instances unhealthy, mongrel, and 
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