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of the lower lip, and on its inner side near the throat, the spots being 

 there larger and round, in the former situation smaller and oblong, while 

 in that part of the lower lip which is inflected in the throat they become 

 streaks. Upper lip small semilunar, compressed upon the calyx, cucul- 

 late in the centre ; lower lip very large, inflated, about a third of its lower 

 surface parallel to the calyx, the remainder at right angles to this, and 

 the upper surface forming an inclined i)lane from the throat, crenate at 

 its lower part, the number of crenatures varying from three to five, and 

 each frequently emarginate, inflected portion of the lower lip flat at 

 right angles to its upper surface. Stamens erect, subexserted, filaments 

 conical, slightly curved downwards, somewhat compressed, and having 

 upon their surface a few erect, short, glandular hairs ; anthers large, 

 pale yellow, lobes divaricated, equal, deeply furrowed on their outsides ; 

 pollen cream-coloured. Pistil longer than the stamens ; stigma small, 

 glandular, capitate ; style glabrous, slightly curved downwards ; germen 

 glanduloso-pubescent, shape and structure as in the genus, placenta large, 

 ovules very numerous. 

 There is no species of this beautiful genus which forms so striking an ob- 

 ject in the green-house as this. How far it will bear cultivation in the 

 open air, we have yet to ascertain. I can see no reason whatever for 

 the specific distinction between Calceolaria creimtijlora and C. pendula at- 

 tempted to be drawn in the British Flower Garden. The chief distinc- 

 tion stated is the difference of the number of the crenatures in the lower 

 lip, and the flowers being pendulous or suberect. The former charac- 

 ter I find to vary continually in the flowers even on the same corymb ; 

 and the latter seems to me to depend solely on the degree of unnatu - 

 ral luxuriance produced by cultivation. I have both plants from Mr 

 Low, who first raised them from seeds gathered in Chiloe by Mr Ander- 

 son, and who furnished the plant figured as Calceolaria pendula in the 

 British Flower Garden, and I cannot see a shade of difference between 

 them. The impropriety of unnecessarily changing names is absolutely 

 caiicatured by Persoon, who, knowing the plant only through the bad fi- 

 gure of Cavanilles, imagined the lower lip to be flat, not inflated, as in 

 the genus, and therefore rejecting the name of Cavanilles, descriptive of 

 a form found in, though not peculiar to the species^ he gave a name ap- 

 plicable only to the figure. 



Epacris nivalis. 



E. nivalis ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis, patentissimis, nudiusculis, infra ner- 

 vosis, apice attenuatis, mucronaiis, marginibus scabris ; floribus axil- 

 laribus, solitariis, secundis, in pseudo-spicis longis aggregatis, corollae 

 tubo campanulato, calycibus acutis ciliatis multo longiore. 

 Description — Shrub evergreen, with many long, slender, tomentous 

 branches. Leaves scattered, spreading, ovato-lanceolate, attenuated at 

 the apex, and mucronate, dark green above, slightly paler and 3-nerved 

 below, nearly glabrous, edges slightly scabrous. Flowers solitary, axil- 

 lary, peduncled, secund, cernuous, collected into long pseudo-spikes on 

 the upper part of the branches, peduncles shorter than the leaves, tomen- 

 tous, scaly. Calyx coloured, segments very acute, ciliated. Corolla white, 

 glabrous ; tube campanulate, 5-sided, pitted on the outside towards its 

 base, so as to close it over the germen, about thrice as long as the calyx ; 

 limb of 5 reflected, cordato-ovate segments. Stamens alternate with the 

 segments of the limb ; filaments adhering to the tube ; anthers nearly 

 sessile in the throat, red, linear, incumbent. Stigma of five lobes, yellow. 

 Style glabrous, white, attenuated towards its apex. Germen globular, 

 green. Hypogynous scales semicircular, closely applied to the lower half 

 of the germen. 

 This exceedingly beautiful species was introtluced into the garden of Messrs 

 Loddiges, by H. M. Dyer, Esq. in 1829. The specimens now described 

 form pretty large bushes, and most attractive ornaments to the green- 



