372 Dr Gralianrs Descnpiwn of New or Hare Plants. 



Germen conical, grooved in its sides. Style straight, filiform, exserted. 

 Stigma simple, small. Ovules very numerous, attached to a large central 

 receptacle, the transverse section of which in each loculament is emar- 

 ginate. Surface of the germen, outside of the corolla and inside of the 

 calyx, covered with short, obscure, glandular pubescence. 



We received the seeds of this plant from our invaluable correspondent Dr 

 Gillies at Mendoza in January last, having been collected by him in 

 Chili. It has been treated like all the other species of the genus, and 

 hitherto kept in the greenhouse. There is great probability that it may 

 not produce seed ; but it strikes very readily by cuttings, the branches 

 even pushing down roots as they lie along the ground. 



We fear it will be more difficult to preserve the only other purple Calceo- 

 laria in cultivation. {Calceolaria purpurea., Edin. New Phil. Journ. 1827, 

 Bot. Mag. t. 2775.), also introduced through the Botanic Garden, Edin- 

 burgh, by seeds sent from our other excellent correspondent Mr Cruck- 

 shanks. It has hitherto produced very few seeds, bat there is at pre- 

 sent a better promise than has before been observed. An entirely 

 new aspect has been given to our greenhouses within these few years, 

 by the kindness of Dr Gillies and Mr Cruckshank, particularly in the 

 most interesting additions from the genera Fuchsia.^ Calceolaria., Salpi- 

 glossis, Schizanthtis., and Loasa. 



Calceolaria connata. 



C. connata; caule erecto, herbaceo, ramoso, pubescent!; foliis oppositis, 

 utrinque pubescentibus, inferioribus in petiolos attenuatis, duplicato 

 dentato-serratis, superioribus ovatis, sessilibus, connatis, dentato-ser- 

 ratis, floralibus integerrimis ; corollae labiis oblongis, compressis, pa- 

 rallelis. 

 Calceolaria connata, Hook. MS. 

 Description — Root perennial. Stem (2 feet high) herbaceous, erect, 

 much branched, pubescent : the pubescence is glutinous, and increases 

 upwards on the plant to the calyx and germen, where it is greatest. 

 Lower leaves (7 inches long, 4 broad,) ovate, subacute, attenuated at the 

 base, and broadly decurrent along petioles half their own length, un- 

 equally and occasionally doubly, tooth serrated, membranous, veined, 

 slightly pubescent on both sides, veins oblique and branched ; upper 

 leaves opposite, gradually becoming cordate and sessile towards the top, 

 connate, in other respects similar to the lower leaves. Racemes solitary 

 and axillary, or terminal and geminate, (6-15 inches long). Common 

 peduncles bifid below the middle, spreading, flexuose, and frequently 

 each branch is again cleft. Pedicels secund, simple, in pairs, (about 

 1 inch long), shorter upwards, filiform, two remote from the others in 

 the bifurcation of the ])eduncle. Bractea 2 at each bifurcation of the 

 peduncle, similar to the upper leaves, but entire in their edge, and 

 smaller. Calyx segments ovate, acute, indistinctly S-nerved, spreading, 

 revolute in the edges. Corolla pale uniform yellow, shortly pubescent 

 externally, lips oblong, comj)ressed, parallel, the upper more than half 

 the length of the lower, and its edge slightly involute, edge of the lower 

 lip folded even to its base, and there again involute, thickened, and green- 

 ish. Stamens arising from the corolla at the sides of its base, included ; 

 filaments straight, smooth, and bearing the incumbent, oblique, whitish, 

 anthers in contact with the edge of the upper lip ; pollen nearly white. 

 Germen bilocular, conical, acuminate, tetragonous. Style longer than the 

 stamens, subexserted, and projecting from the centre of the anthers, 

 marcescent. Stigma small, blunt. OvuIcb numerous, attached to a cen- 

 tral receptacle, the transverse section of which is bifid in each locula- 

 ment. 

 We received this species from the Royal Botanic Garden, Glasgow, where 

 it was raised from seed ; but through what channel it was received 

 there, or from what district in South America, I do not know. In the 

 arrangement of the s])ecies, it should stand next to C. petiolaris. 



