Tas. 6231. 
CALCEOLARIA TENELLA. 
Native of Chili. 
Nat. Ord, ScroPHULARIACEZ.—Tribe, CALCEOLARIE. 
Genus CaLceoLaria, Linn, (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. ii., p. 929). 
CauceoLaRrA (Kucalceolaria) tenella; pusilla, perennis, herbacea, prostrata, 
superne viscidula, ramis decumbentibus radicantibus, foliis brevissime petio- 
latis ovatis orbiculatisve subacutis marginibus recurvis v. planis integerrimis 
v. remote crenatis utrinque viridibus, corymbis subsessilibus v. pedunculatis 
laxe paucifloris, calycis laciniis late triangulari- ovatis subacutis puberulis, 
corolle glabre labiis alte connatis superiore concavo calycem superante, 
inferiore duplo majore orbiculato valde inflato ad medium aperto. 
C. tenella, Pap, et Endl. Nov. Gen. et Sp., vol. iii., p. 76, t. 287; Benth. in DC. 
Prodr., vol. x., p. 214; C. Gay, Flor. Chil., vol. v., p- 193, 
A very elegant little plant, of a bright glossy green, with 
pale golden flowers spotted with red within the corolla. It 
was discovered by the German traveller Peeppig in 1823, 
and gathered subsequently by the English botanical collector, 
Bridges, growing in sandy places and on wet rocks near the 
rivers of the Andes, and in Valdiyia, and has since been col- 
lected by Lechler, Philippi, and various other botanists, up to 
an elevation of 4-5000 ft. , 
Seeds of it were sent by Mr. G. Downton, when travelling 
for Messrs. Veitch, from which the specimen here figured 
was raised in 1873. It appears to be quite hardy, and like 
many other Chilian plants yet to be introduced, including 
not a few Calceolarias, it will prove an attractive ornament 
to the rock-garden. : 
Duscr. A diffuse, leafy, straggling, perennial herd, more 
or less clothed with a fine viseid pubescence on the in- 
florescence, branchlets, and sometimes on the leaves. Branches 
slender, prostrate and rooting, with ascending coor 
Leaves in loose or close-set pairs, shortly petioled or sessile, 
one-fourth to one-third of an inch long, ovate or orbicular- 
ovate, subacute, quite entire or distantly crenate, green on 
both surfaces. Corymbs few-flowered, terminating the branch- 
May Ist, 1876. 
