Tas. 6431. 
CALCEOLARIA DEFLEXA. 
Native of Peru. 
Nat. Ord. ScropHuLARINEZ.—Tribe CALCEOLARIE®. 
Genus, CatcroariA, Linn; (Benth et Hook., f. Gen. Pl. vol. it. p. 919). 
Catcrorarta (Salicifolie) fuchsiefolia; gracilis, glabra, suffruticosa, ramulis 
teretiusculis, v. obtuse 4-gonis, foliis petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis insequaliter 
denticulatis supra luride viridibus paniculeque .ramis plus minusve verni- 
cosis subtus pallidis, paniculis amplis, axillis 2-foliatis, floribus nutantibus, 
calycis lobis triangulari-ovatis, corolle glabra labio superiore reniformi-orbi- 
culare crenato, inferiore inflato subgloboso incurvo paulo minore. 
C. deflexa, Ruiz and Pav., Fl. Per. & Chil. vol. i. p. 15, t. 23, f. a.; Benth. in 
DOC. Prodr, vol.-x. 217. 
C. fuchsieefolia, Hemsl. in The Garden, 1879, p. 258. 
After a careful examination of the species of Calceolaria 
belonging to the ninth, or Salicifolia section of Bentham, in 
De Candolle’s ‘‘ Prodromus,” and a comparison of the nume- 
rous specimens which have accumulated in our Herbaria 
since the publication of that work, I think it cannot be 
doubted that these species have been unduly multiplied, and 
that it is even doubtful whether some of the original species 
of Ruiz and Pavon may not have been separated on trivial 
grounds. Be this as it may, the identity of the present 
plant with the C. defleca of Ruiz and Payon cannot be ques- 
tioned ; the character mainly depended upon by Mr. Hemsley, 
who advances the species doubtfully, for distinguishing it, 
namely, the absence of viscosity, not holding good with the 
specimen here figured, in which the upper surface of the 
leaves and the branches of the panicle were more or less 
shining from the presence of a viscous exudation ; a character, 
however, depending for its development on the warmth of the 
weather and on the condition of the plant. 
Specimens which I cannot distinguish from these, and named 
_ by Bentham C. defleva, are contained in the Kew Herbaria, 
gathered in the Cauta valley by Cruckshanks, near San 
JUNE Ist, 1879. 
