1748 



* CALCKOLARIA angusliHora. 

 Narrow-flowered Calceolaria . 



DIANDRIA MOKOGY^IA. 



Nat. orrf. ScROPHULARiNE^ Juss. (^Introduction to the Natural System 

 of Botamj.p. 228.) 



CALCEOLARIA.—Supra, vol. 9. p. 723. 



C. angustifiora ; caule perenni difFuso, foliis cordato-ovatis duplicato-serratis 

 glabris oppositis ternatisque, peduiiculis axillaribus paucifloris sa^pius pani- 

 culam angustissimam foliosam efficientibus, corollas labio inferiorc obtuso basi 

 angustato superiore minimo. 



C. angustifiora. Ruiz et Pavon. Fl. Peruv. vol, 1. p. 17. t, 28./. a. Graham 

 in Bat. Mag. t. 3094. 



? C. verticillata. Hooker Bat. Misc. vol 2. 233. 



A half hardy perennial, flowering in August and Septem- 

 ber, and remarkable among its race for its prostrate habit, 

 deep green, somewhat shining leaves, and small flowers. 

 It was found first by the authors of the Flora Peruviana, in 

 the valley of Canta in Peru ; subsequently Mr. Cruckshanks 

 discovered it at Culluay in the same district, and gathered 

 the seeds from which the plants in our gardens were obtained. 



It is a species of no great attraction, but deserves to be 

 recorded in this work, as one of the genuine wild forms of a 

 genus, which, however beautiful and interesting, has already 

 begun to sink in estimation, in consequence of the ruin that 

 has been brought upon it by the unskilfulness of gardeners. 

 In their haste to improve the works of nature, these gentle- 

 men have converted some of the fairest races in the Vegetable 

 world, into forms in no case more beautiful than the original, 

 and in the majority of instances unhealthy, mongrel, and 



See fol. 1214. 

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