Tab. 5525. 

 SCUTELLARIA aurata; var. sulphurea. 



Golden Scutellaria ; sulphur-flowered var. 



Nat. Orel. Labiate.— Didynamia Gymnospermia. 

 Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 5439.) 



Scutellaria aurea ; herbacea, subpubescens, caule tetragono ; foliis sublonge 

 petiolatis ovatis obtuse acuminatis, basi auriculato-cordatis, lobis approxi- 

 matis integerrimis vel obsolete remote denticulatis, floribus in racemum ter- 

 minalera numerosis erectis, pedicellis brevibus calycibusque vindibus basi 

 bracteatis, bracteis linearibus reflexis, corollis longissimis flavidis, tubuloso- 

 infundibuliformibus sursum paululum curvatis, gynophoro elongato. 



Scutellaria aurata. Ch. Lem. in Illustr. Hortic. 9. (1862), t 368. 



/3. sulphurea ; floribus minoribus pallide sulphureis. 



A Brazilian species, native of Para, where it has been dis- 

 covered by M. Baraquin, and transmitted by him to M. Ver- 

 schaffelt's establishment in Holland in 1861, and by the 

 latter gentleman obligingly communicated to Kew in J 864. 

 The species is remarkable for the deep (scarcely "golden ) yel- 

 low, or pale sulphur-colour of the flowers. But in general 

 structure of the flowers, and even of the foliage, there is a gpreat 

 similarity with our Scutellaria Costaricana, figured at our lab. 

 5439, especially in that state of aurata figured by M. Lemaire; 

 but in S. Costaricana, besides the rich scarlet colour of the 

 flowers, the stem, pedicels, and calyx are purple, the leaves are 

 auriculato-cordate at the base, rather strongly serrated at the 

 margin, and the gynophore of the ovary is very short and globose. 

 Our living plant of aurata produced smaller flowers, and those 

 not full yellow, but pale sulphur-coloured. 



Descr. Stem a foot or a foot and a half high, square, green 

 slightly pubescent, as is the whole of the plant, the flowers most 

 so. Leaves opposite, three to four inches long, petiolate, somewhat 



AUGUST 1st, 1S65. 



