viscid: the whole scarcely exceeding the length of the leaf, 

 in the axil of which they are placed. Calyx four-parted ; 

 segments unequal, lanceolate, the upper the broadest. 

 Corolla yellow, upper lip wanting, there being only a 

 scarcely prominent ring, passing round the germen; low- 

 er lip extremely slender, and somewhat pubescent at its 

 origin, turgid below, and closed by a prolongation of its 

 upper edge, turned up and brought into contact with the 

 stigma. Stamens two, having their origin from the lower 

 half of the ring which forms the faux of the corolla ; fila- 

 ments erect. Anthers large, yellow, as in the other species, 

 bilocular with the lobes attached to each other by their 

 ends, and bursting along the front. Pistil rather longer 

 than the stamens ; stigma minute ; style somewhat hooked 

 downwards. Germen pubescent, and, as in the other 

 species, conical and furrowed on two sides. 



The only plant of this species which we possess, was re- 

 ceived from the Botanic Garden of Glasgow, where it was 

 raised from seed communicated from Lima by Mr. Crucr- 

 shanrs. In habit and appearance it is very distinct from 

 any of the species already in cultivation, and corresponds 

 with a native specimen that Mr. Crucrshanrs kindly 

 gave me, as well as with the figure of Ruiz and Pavon, 

 sufficiently to induce me to consider it as illustrative of the 

 form to which these authors applied the specific name 

 that I have adopted. Still, a continued experience of the 

 tendency to produce hybrids which this Genus possesses, 

 renders me more and more sceptical about the title which 

 very appreciable varieties of form have to be considered 

 specifically distinct. In a former number of the Edinburgh 

 Philosophical Journal, I noticed some mule plants, which 

 had been raised by Mr. Gardner, at Grantown, near Edin- 

 burgh, by artificially impregnating some of the most dis- 

 tinguishable kinds of Calceolaria : since that time, the 

 same cultivator has obtained all sorts of mixtures, and 

 blended different species into one another, through an in- 

 finity of gradations. 



In the figure of Ruiz and Pavon, the lip of the corolla is 

 much less turgid than it appears either in the cultivated 

 plant or in my native specimens ; but the representations 

 are not always correct in these details, and the station, 

 Canta, assigned by these authors for C. angustifiora, is the 

 same as where Mr. Cruckshanrs gathered the individual 

 plant that he gave me. Graham. 



Fig. 1. Leaf, nat. size. 2. Corolla, with the lip forced back; slightly 

 magn >Jied. 



