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CALCEOLARIA THYRSIFLORA. TUFTED 
SLIPPER-Wort. 
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Class and Order. 
Dianpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord. — Scropuurarina. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 4-partitus. Cor. bilabiata, labium inferius calcei- 
forme, inflatum. Caps. semibivalvis, valvulis bifidis. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Caucrotaria thyrsiflora; fruticosa ramosa, foliis oppositis 
linearibus, basi attenuatis, lineatis serrato-dentatis gla- 
bris viscosis sessilibus, thyrsis terminalibus confertis, 
pedicellis decompositis umbellatis. ae 
Catcrouaria thyrsiflora. Graham in Edinb. New Phil. 
Journ. 1828, p. 2718. ; 
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Descr. An erect shrub: stem round, bark brown and 
cracked ; branches spreading at their origin, afterwards 
erect, when young, somewhat rough and obscurely glan- 
dular. Leaves (two inches long, two lines broad) opposite, 
Sessile, spreading, linear, subacute, becoming narrower 
towards their base, channelled, lineate, keeled behind, 
rather distinctly serrato-dentate ; the whole edge, but par- 
ticularly the teeth, reflected, without hairs, as well as the 
peduncles and pedicels shining on both surfaces froma viscid 
exudation. Common peduncles terminal, elongated, nearly 
naked below, the upper leaves passing into bracteas, and 
oming entire; the pedicels rise from the axils of these, 
and are once, twice, or oftener divided, in form of little 
umbels, having at each subdivision a pair of bracteas, 
Similar, but successively smaller: ultimate division of the 
Pedicels longer than the flowers. Flowers yellow, crowd- 
into a handsome thyrsus at the extremity of each branch. 
“yx yellowish-green, four partite, segments (one-fourth 
of an inch long,) ovato-lanceolate, glandular on both sur- 
~s Unequal, slightly divaricated, but after the corolla 
falls closing over the germen, obscurely nerved. Corolla 
‘ubglobular, nearly twice as long as the calyx, glabrous on 
© outside, except a slight pubescence where the closed 
