Tab. 4154 

 CALCEOLARIA floribunda. 



Copious-flowering Slipper-wort. 



Nat. Ord. Scrophularin^;. — Diandria Monogynia. 

 CALCEOLARIA. L. (Vide supra Tab. 3255.) Endlich.Gen. p. 671. 



Calceolaria floribunda; suffruticosa, ramis pedicellisque ferrugineo- 

 pubescenti-glandulosis, foliis oppositis oblongo-lanceolatis sessilibus 

 dentato-serratis basi latis subcordatis subamplexicaulibus gradatim 

 acuminatis hirtellis subtus pallidioribus magisque hirsutis, corymbis 

 terminalibus multifloris, calycibus pubescenti-glandulosis, corollis sub- 

 globosis pallide flavis pubescentibus, labiis arete clausis, labio supe- 

 riore triple- minore compresso. 



Calceolaria floribunda. H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. Am. v. 2. p. 385. 

 Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veg. v. 1. Mant. p. 160. Spreng. Syst. Veget. 

 v.l.p. 46. Walpers, Repert. Bot. v. 3. p. 162. 



Our gardens abound in Calceolarice from Chili and extra- 

 tropical South America ; but very few are known alive in this 

 country from the tropical regions of the New World. The 

 present handsome species is from the environs of Quito, where 

 it was gathered by Lobb, Mr. Veitch's South American col- 

 lector, and sent to him in 1843. It flowered in Mr. Veitch's 

 establishment at Exeter in September, 1844, whence the spe- 

 cimen here figured was communicated. Although from within 

 the tropics, and almost under the Line, yet, the city itself of 

 Quito being at an elevation of 11,000 feet above the level of 

 the sea, this will probably prove a suitable plant for the 

 greenhouse, and perhaps may flourish in the open air in the 

 summer months, where it cannot fail to be highly ornamental; 

 and we should be thankful if it do not share the fate of the 

 Chilian species, which are so hybridized, that the original 

 native kinds are wholly lost to our gardens, and are to be 

 found only in the Herbarium. 



Uescr. A suffruticose plant, with erect stems, and oppo- 

 site, terete branches, which are clothed with short, glandular 

 pubescence. Leaves opposite, three to four, or, the lower 



