A handsome stove shrub^ especially when its copious cymes oi dense nowers are m periecuon ^Marcn and April), and 
which are remarkable for the play of colours: the tube is yellow; the limb in bud deep rose-colour, changing wlieu they 
expand to pale rose and then to white, with a yellow disc, and having a 
two-lobed green spot in the centre from the colour of the stigmas, which 
protrude a little beyond the mouth. It does not correspond with any of 
the many species now described of this genus; its nearest affinity is, per- 
haps, with R. cordata Benth. (Rogeria Planch, and Henfrey) from Guate- 
mala, but that is nearly glabrous, and has sessile leaves, broad and cordate 
at the base. A moderate-sized shrub, with '' very bitter bark," Branches 
obscurely four-sided, but compressed, younger ones and young leaves r^uite 
silky and shining. Leaves large, deep green, soft and submembranaceous 
when fresh, more hard and almost coriaceous when dry, ovate, acuminate, 
very obtuse or subcordate at the base, above in the adult foliage glabrous 
or nearly so, beneath and on the petioles (half an inch long) pubescenti- 
tomentose, paler in colour, veins pinnated, prominent, beneath, a good 
deal reticulated, the reticulation most distinct in the dry state. Stipules 
decidaous from the older leaves, broad ovate, spreading, membranaceo- 
herbaceous, downy. Panicle downy, trichotomously divided and bearing 
numerous flowers, so as to fonn a more or less dense cyme, everywhere 
very downy, even tlie outside of the corollas. Calyx-tube small, globose : 
teeth five, small. Corolla hypocraterlform; the limb of five, spreading, 
rather wavy lobes, silky in the disc. Stamens quite included. Style a 
little exserted. Stigma two-lobed."— i?o^. Mag.^ t. 4579, 
This is very near R. Menechma figured above at p. 41., no. 300, but its 
flowers are much larger with blunter lobes. Perhaps it is the same 
plant, better grown. 
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337. Calceolaeia tetuagona. Bentliam. A broad-' 
leaved greenhouse shrub^ mtli loose corymbs of large pale 
yellow flowers. Native of Peru. 
Belongs to Linariads. 
\^\g, 170^ a, natural size of flowers ; h^ a diminish 
a branch.) 
This wag exhibited by Messrs. Yeiteh, at the 
last great exhibition of the Horticultural Society. It 
fonns a compact evergreen bush, with pale green, 
broad, oblong, blunt, entire leaves, from three to 
four inches long ; which, in a wild state, are fre- 
quently (always ?) covered with a glutinous exuda- 
tion. The flowers are among the largest in the 
genus, pale yellow, with a very large yellowish-green 
calyx, consisting of blunt, spreading, oblong sepals. 
In habit it is wholly distinct from all those previously 
in cultivation, and may probably become, in the hands 
of skilful hybridizers, the parent of an entirely new 
race of Calceolarias. It seems to be a true shrub ; 
the foliage is much better than that of other garden 
species, and the large flowers only want brilliancy 
and gay markmg to be very beautiful objects. 
338. Sedum Kamtchatictjm. Fischer 
Meyer ^ Ind. Seminum in Borto 
litano; Walm 
Ee. 
June 
limit 
Schrenk 
leases are obovate and toothed at the upper half only, but they narrow in a wedge-ahaped manner to the 
m habit. 
