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CALCEOLARIA POLIFOLIA. WHITE-LEAVED 
Suipper- Wort. 
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Class and Order. 
DianpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Scropuutaring, ) 
; Generic Character. 
Cal. 4-partitus. Cor. bilabiata ; labium inferius mflatum, 
calceiforme. Caps. semi-bivalvis, valvulis bifidis. 
Specific Character. 
CaLcronarta polifolia ; suffruticosa, caulibus erectis ramo- 
Sis, foliis ovatis oblongisve crenatis in petiolum atten- 
uatis, pedunculis dichotomis, floribus rotundatis. 
me: 
Descr. Perennial. Stem erect, somewhat woody, round- 
ed, a foot high, much branched, especially below, the 
ranches opposite, every where woolly. Leaves opposite, 
M my wild specimens ovate, in the cultivated ones, oblong, 
attenuated at the base into a petiole, an inch long (includ- 
ing the petiole) obscurely nerved, hoary on both sides, but 
my beneath, with a white, dense, woolly covering. 
The stem is leafless upwards, and divides into two elon- 
sated peduncles, having a pair of opposite, oblong leaves 
or bracteas at the base : each of them bears a corymb of 
rather small, almost globose yellow flowers: the pedicels 
are dichotomous, and there is one, sometimes two flowers in 
bs axil. Calyx, as well as the pedicels, quite white with 
*ariness: the form quadrifid, with the segments patent. 
Pper lip of the corolla small, very pale yellow, the under 
one appressed to it, and deep yellow. -Anther large in pro- 
"tion to the size of the flower. Pistil: Germen roundish, 
vate, dotted : Style filiform. | 
Native 
