Tab. 4300 . 
CALCEOLARIA amplexicaulis. 
Clasping-leaved Calceolaria, or Slipper-wort. 
Nat. Ord. ScROPHULARINEiE.—D iandria Monogynia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx basi ovario brevissime adbserens, 4-partitus, lacums aestiva- 
tione valvatis. Corollce subperigynee tubus subnullus, limbus concavus bilobus, 
lobis integris concavis vel calceiformibus, superiore minore inferiorem vulgo 
inflatum aestivatione ad margines aTigustissime obtegente. Stamina 2 lateraba, 
prope basin coroUae inserta, addito rarissime tertio postico, deficientum nidimen- 
tum nulla; antheree biloculaTes v. diinidiatae. Stylus simplex, apice non incras- 
satus minute stigmatosus. Ovarium disco tenui calyci adnato impositum. Cap- 
sula ovato-conica, septicide dehiscens, valvubs bifidis marginibus inflexis colum- 
nam placentiferam nudantibus.—Herbae suffrutices, v. frutices, Austro-Americani 
vel Novo-Zelandici. Folia opposita aut verticillata rarissime alterna. Pedunculi 
axillares terminalesve cynwso-multijlori vel rarius unijlori. CoroUae Jlav(B, aVxx v. 
purpurascentes. 
Calceolaria amplexicaulis-, suffruticosa, ramis pilosis, fobis ovato-lanceolatis 
oblongisve acuminatis crenato-serratis utrinque piloso-hirsutis, pamcula 
subcorymbosa, calycis pilosi laciniis acutis, coroUae labio superiore calycem 
superante inferiore magno obovato-orbiculato faucem claudente. 
Calceolaria amplexicaulis. H.B.K. Nov. Gen. Am. v. 3. p. 384. 171. Spieng. 
Syst. Veg. v. 1. p. 46. Benth. in Be Cand. Prodr. v. 10. p. 220. Plant. 
Hartw. n. 1272. 
A handsome and ornamental Calceolaria-, though, except m 
foliage, little differing from many other forms of that genus, which 
have been some time in cultivation, and on that account perhaps 
not likely to become a general favourite. It is a native of 
and Colombia. Humboldt met with it upon the banks of the 
San Pedro, between Chillo and Conocoto, at an elevation of from 
seven to eight thousand feet above the level of the sea: Mr. vVm. 
Lobb at Muna, whence he forwarded seeds to Mr. Veitch of Exeter, 
where the plant from which the figure here taken was raised, 
Professor Jameson and Hartweg send it from Quito. ^ There 
can, I think, scarcely be a doubt of Mr. Veitch s plant being the 
same as Humboldt’s; though the figure in the ‘ Nova Genera 
represents the lips as more apart so as to leave an expanded 
may 1st, 1847. 
