Tab. 5677. 



CALCEOLARIA pisacomensis. 



Orange-red Calceolaria. 



Nat. Ord. Scrophulahine^:.— Diandria Monogynia. 

 Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 4929.) 



^alceolarta pisacomensis ; caule robusto stricto erecto superne ramis 

 et inflorescentia pubescentibus v. furfuraceo-tomentellis, foliis breviter 

 petiolatis ovatis obtusis, marginibus recurvis grosse irregulariter 

 crenatis supra rugosis minute scabcrulis, subtus glanduloso-pubescen- 

 tibus, cymis in axillis superioribus suberectis umbellatim multifloris, 

 noribus erectis gracile pedicellatis, calycis lobis late ovatis subacutis, 

 corolla? rubro-aurantiaca; labio superiore parvo margine refleio, 

 mferiore magno adscendente calceiformi, antice sublobulato. 



Calceolaria pisacomensis. Meyen, Reise um die JErde, v. 1. p. 469. Walp. 

 in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. xix. Suppl. v. l.p. 396. Hep. v. 111. p. 162. 



This is certainly the handsomest Calceolaria that has been 

 introduced for many years ; and though, owing to its siy.e. 

 Probably unsuited for bedding-out in masses, its robust habit, 

 copious flowers, and beautiful colouring cannot fail to recom- 

 mend it as one of the choicest recent contributions to the 

 flower-garden. It was imported from Peru by Messrs. Veitch 

 and Sons, through their indefatigable and successful collector, 

 Mi'. Pearce, and was originally discovered by the distin- 

 guished traveller Meyen, near Arequipa, in Peru. The 

 specimen here figured flowered in Messrs. Veitch 's Nursery in 

 August of the present year. 



It is very much to be desired that the accession of such 

 fine plants as this would induce cultivators to turn their 

 attention to the extensive genera to which they belong, witli 

 the view not only of procuring new species, but of recover- 

 ing some of their many beautiful once-cultivated con- 

 geners. No less than twenty-three handsome species of Cal- 

 ceolaria are figured in this Magazine, all from specimens once 

 living in England ; probably not half-a-dozen of these now 

 exist in any one collection. * Kew ought to possess all, and 



DECEMBER 1ST, 1S67. 



