genus Calceolaria are found only on the western side of the 
American continent. They are concentrated more especially 
in Peru and Chile, the number of species in Peru being 
about ninety-four, in Chile about seventy-five. Each country 
has fifty-eight species peculiar to itself; only nine species 
are common to both. The species which forms the subject 
of our plate is one of those peculiar to Chile, where it has 
been collected by Mr. H. J. Elwes as far south as the Bafios 
de Chillan in Nuble at 5-6,000 feet above sea level, and 
by Professor Philippi as far north as the province of 
Coquimbo. The plant from which our figure has been 
prepared is one of several raised from seed purchased in 
October, 1910, from Mr. J. D. Husbands, Limavida, Chile. 
Grown in a pot in a cool frame, it has formed suberect 
stems about four inches long, some of which have developed 
terminal erect slender scapes about a foot anda half in 
length that continued to bear flowers from June till October. 
The flowers, which are distinctly violet-scented, have hitherto 
been stated to be yellow, doubtless the result of descrip- 
tions based on dried specimens in which they soon become 
yellowish or brownish-white; they are, however, usually 
purple, less often rose coloured. The plant, which appears 
to be a perennial, might easily be mistaken, when not in 
flower, for a Stachys or a Gnaphalium. The nearest ally of 
C. cana is C. arachnoidea, Grah., figured at t. 2874 of this 
work; that species, however, differs from C. cana in being 
usually more robust and more woolly and in having much 
larger cauline leaves, with purple self-coloured flowers 
devoid of the markings which characterise those of C. cana. 
Description.—Herb, perennial, tufted, rather small, 
scapose. Leaves radical, close set, oblong-lanceolate, spa- 
thulate or obovate, 14-2} in. long, 2-3 in. wide, subacute 
or obtuse, gradually narrowed to a broad often short 
petiole, entire or finely toothed, more or less densely white 
woolly. Scape slender, erect, including the inflorescence 
1-1} ft. long, cylindric, sparingly pilose or nearly glab- 
rous, often bifurcate upwards, with a few small linear 
oblong leafy bracts, 3-4 lin. long. Inflorescence open, at 
first almost corymbose, cymosely branched, the branches 
ultimateiy elongated, raceme-like, 2-6 in. long, more or 
less glandular pubescent. Pedicels very slender, 4-5 lin. 
