Tab. 4157 

 CALCEOLARIA alba. 



White-flowered Calceolaria. 



Nat. Ord. Scrophularine^e.— Diandria Monogynia. 

 CALCEOLARIA. (Vide supra Tab. 3255J 



Calceolaria alba; suffruticosa resinoso-viscosa, foliis linearibus acutis 

 remote serratis, panicula terminali foliosa, pedunculis oppositis corym- 

 bosis, corollse clausae (albae) labio superiore parvo, inferiore 5-pIo 

 majore inflato compresso. 



Calceolaria alba. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Peruv. et Chit. I.e. 19. t. 27. f. b. 

 Walp. Repert. Bot. 3. p. 164. 



A native of Chili; but, probably, of rare occurrence, at 

 least, it has not, till now, been introduced to our gardens. 

 Mr. Veitch received seeds from his Collector, Mr. William 

 Lobb, and plants raised from them flowered in his nursery in 

 September, 1844. From one of these our drawing was taken. 

 It is singular in the very pale, nearly white, color of the 

 flowers. The foliage, though narrow, is copious, and the 

 plant has an erect and graceful mode of growth. Ruiz and 

 Pavon's figure represents the corolla with the lips spreading : 

 but this is probably owing to its being taken from a dried 

 specimen. The species will, perhaps, bear our mild winters. 



Descr. Plant apparently suffruticose, erect, branched; 

 branches opposite. Leaves opposite, and copious fascicles of 

 leaves arise from their axils, all of them linear, or a little 

 broader upwards, acute, sometimes entire; but generally re- 

 motely serrated, more or less viscid. Panicle terminal, leafy, 

 elongated; peduncles opposite, from the axil of a leaf, and 

 each bearing a corymb of white flowers. Pedicels dichoto- 

 mous, bearing a flower in the fork. Calyx four-cleft. Corolla 

 white, of two very unequal lips ; the upper one very small, 

 the lower one large, both are, however, compressed, and they 

 meet together so that the faux is quite closed. 



