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Account of a new Calceolaria^ and of Nepenthes distillatoria, 

 mas. which have lately flowered in the Royal Botanic Gar- 

 den, Edinburgh. Communicated by Dr Graham. 



Calceolaria purpurea. l^^^ September I827. 



C. purpurea ; herbacea, caulibus pluribus, erectis, ramosis ; foliis venoso- 

 rugosis, hispidis, radicalibus ciineato-spathulatis, serratis, postice inte- 

 gerrimis, petiolatis, subacutis, cauliniis cordatis, decussatis, superioribus 

 minoribus integerrimis ; Corynibis terminalibus, multifloris. 



Description — Sterns^ many from the same root, erect, pubescent. Root- 

 leaves spathiilato-cuneate, somewhat acute, with a strong middle rib, 

 veined, wrinkled, with a few long, scattered hairs on their surface; stem.' 

 leaves cordate, broad, decussating, more wrinkled than the root leaves, 

 uppermost pair nearly smooth, and quite entire. Corymbs terminal ; 

 bract^ce 2, ovate, at the base of the corymb ; pedicels numerous, slightly 

 bent, filiform. Calyx, segments ovate, pubescent. Corolla rather small, 

 of uniform reddish-violet colour, upper lip nearly half the size of the 

 lower, which is doubly furrowed. 



The seeds were received in December 1820 from Mr Cruckslianks, who col- 

 lected them on the Cordilleras. The habit of the plant is quite that of 

 Calceolaria corymhosa^ next which it should be placed, and it seems to 

 require the same treatment. It flowered at the Royal Botanic Garden, 

 Edinburgh, in the beginning of August 1827. 



Nepenthes distillatoria. — Mas. 



N. distillatoria ; caule suffruticoso, subramoso, cirrhis scandenti ; foliis spar- 

 sis, oblongo-lanceolatis, petiolatis, aveniis, decurrentibus, ascidiis sub- 

 ventricosis; racemis oppositifoliis, prope summos ramorum, subsimpli- 

 cibus. 

 Description. — Stem eight feet high, round, below slender and somewhat 

 woody, above twice as thick, and more herbaceous, branching. Buds 

 small, and placed above the axils of the leaves, many of them abortive. 

 Leaves entire, channelled, undulated, glabrous, scattered, 1-1 ^ feet long, 

 exclusive of the cirrhus, but including the petiole, along which they are 

 broadly decurrent, and which is about 3 inches long, half stem clasping, 

 and decurrent half-way to the next leaf below, veinless, or veins onfy 

 obscurely seen, and not prominent, on either side till dry, after which 

 several slender veins and nerves are observed, nearly parallel to the 

 middle rib, and reticulated with transverse veins : middle rib strong, 

 prominent behind, drawn out into a cirrhus from 10 to 12 inches long, 

 flattened on its upper side, and convolute in the middle, enabling the 

 r plant to climb, from this point somewhat thickened and turned down, 



I having at its extremity an erect pitcher., which is wedge-shaped behind 



^ when young, afterwards in its lower half obscurely conical, above this 



contracted a little, and nearly cylindrical, its mouth oblique, with a 

 rounded, regularly and transversely wrinkled edge, and a round lid con- 

 nected by its posterior margin to the highest portion of the oblique 

 mouth, where alone the wrinkled edge of the pitcher is interrupted. 

 The outer edge of this border is revolute after the lid rises, but before 

 this is erect, and passes within the sides of the lid, which at that time 

 I are folded down. Diameter of the lid from back to front is 2 inches, 



I; transversely it is 2\ inches. Two prominent and curved ribs (between 



\ which, and also between them and the edges, the lid, otherwise flat, is 



somewhat depressed) run on its upper surface from the base towards its 

 anterior edge, and from the point of their union at the base, is project- 

 ed a small awl-shaped spur, and along the back of the pitcher a nerve, 

 which becomes less prominent towards the extremity of the cirrhlis. 

 I Along the front of the pitcher are two prominent ribs, extended from 



the edges of the flattened surface of the cirrhus : these are more promi- 



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