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sepals are large, roundish ovate, very blunt, and slightly tooth- 

 letted at the edge ; the stameus are scarcely polyadelphous ; the 

 pistil has five distinct recurving styles rather shorter than the 

 ovary. 



Cryptophragmium canescens. Nees v. Esenbeck in 

 B.C. Prod,:, XI. 95. 



A soft-wooded stove Acanthaceous plant, raised from seeds sent 

 from Ceylon by G. U. Thwaites, Esq. It is a perennial, growing 

 about two feet high, and covered all over with a fine soft down. 

 The leaves are opposite, thin, wavy, acute, somewhat decurrent 

 upon the petiole, and so forming a wedge-shaped base ; in length 

 they vary from four to six inches. The flowers are pure yellow, 

 and appear in one-sided spikes, partly axillary, partly terminal, 

 covered all over with long straight hairs, among which a few 

 glands are intermixed ; hence the name of canescens, or hoary, 

 applied to the plant in Botany. The sepals and subtending 

 bracts are linear-subulate, rather obtuse, and as long as the 

 corolla, which has a nearly straight tube, and a two-lipped limb, 

 the upper half of which is erect and emarginate, the latter divided 

 into three oblong blunt lobes, of which the intermediate is the 

 broadest. There are only two stamens, which arise from the 

 base of the lower lip of the corolla ; the anthers are beardless, 

 unequally two-celled, with the larger cell mucronate at the base. 

 The stigma is an oblique oval blunt terminal area, with a furrow 

 along the middle. The ovary is many-seeded, glandular near the 

 point, and seated upon a fleshy cushion-shaped base. 



This plant cannot be called showy ; yet there is considerable 

 minute beauty in its shaggy calyxes and pure yellow corollas. 

 It requires a hot damp stove, in which it grows freely in a mixture 

 of sandy loam, peat, and leaf-mould, striking readily from cuttings. 

 Mr. Thwaites reports that his seeds were gathered in Ceylon at 

 an elevation of 6000 feet above the sea. 



Calceolaria ertcoides. Vahl. enum., I. 190. B.C. Prodr., 

 X. 221. 



Although this plant, when in the state in which it is here 

 represented, straggling upon the open border, does not hold out 

 much promise of beauty, yet in its natural condition, upon its 

 own mountains, it would seem to bo really handsome. A dried 



