Tas. 6597. 
CALCEOLARIA SINCLAIRIT. 
Native of New Zealand. 
Nat. Ord. ScropHULARINEX.—Tribe CALCEOLARIER. 
Genus Catceoxaria, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 929.) 
Catceotarta (Jovellana) Sinclairii ; pubescens, caule gracili, foliis longe petiolatis 
ovatis oblongisve subacutis v. obtusis membranaceis grosse crenato-serratis vy. 
marginibus lobulatis lobulis dentatis basi rotundatis v. subeordatis, cymis longe 
pedunculatis laxifloris, floribus subecorymbosis longe pedicellatis, calycis parvi 
lobis ovatis obtusis recurvis, corolla pallida intus rubro-punctata late rotundato- 
campanulata, labio superiore brevi emarginato, inferiore paullo longiore 
rotundato concavo obscure 3-lobo, tubo basi intus villoso, antheris didymis, 
filamentis brevibus ima basi tubi insertis, ovario conico. 
C. Sinclairii, Hook. Ic. Plant. t.561; Hook. f. Flora of New Zealand, vol. i. p. 187; 
Handbook of New Zealand Flora, p. 201; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vol. x. 
p- 206. : 
The existence in New Zealand of two species of the 
otherwise peculiarly South American genus Calceolavia, is 
one of the many singular botanical features of the former 
country; nor is it the only instance of a strong affinity 
between these distant countries which is not shared by the 
Australian continent or its islands; for it is repeated by the 
genera Fuchsia, Coriaria. — 
Both the New Zealand Calceolarias belong to a very 
small American section of the genus which has the lips of 
the corolla bell-shaped and nearly equal, and of which 
species only four others are known, of which two have been 
figured in this work, C. violacea (Tab. 4929) and C. punc- 
tata (Tab. 5392). Of these the former is very closely 
allied to the New Zealand plant, having the same spotted 
flowers, only rather larger, with a larger calyx and more 
depressed ovary, but it has very different leaves. 
O. Sinclairii was discovered at East Cape in the Northern 
Island of New Zealand by the late Dr. Sinclair, R.N., 
whilst Colonial Secretary, an ardent botanist, who fell a 
- DECEMBER lst, 1881]. 
