CALCEOLARIA. 
charming of neat tufts, emitting a profuse display of brilliant gol 
bags on fine single stems from amid the nest of leafage. 
C. Mathewsii haunts the Andes of Ayacucho, between 10,000 to 
11,000 feet, and is a leafy minutely small tuffet barely half an inch 
high, with stems of some 2 to 5 inches, each carrying one noble golden 
flower, spotted with purple. 
C. mendocina makes fleshy rosettes of almost round fleshy leaves, 
pointed, hairy, and as broad as they are long, in the Alps of Chile. The 
naked stems are about 3 inches tall, and on each unfolds an ample 
round-bellied blossom of golden yellow. 
C. plantaginea, from the cold wet lands of Tierra del Fuego and arid 
Patagonia, is now revelling in our kindlier conditions—a plant of 
hearty splendour and very leafy, with broad shining corrugated foliage, . 
and loose branching showers of bloom in the later summer on stems 
about a foot or 18 inches tall. It is absolutely hardy in any decent 
garden soil or situation, as might be expected, and, though not so 
exquisite for the rock-garden as the one-flowered species, is a most 
notable addition, whose only fault is that slugs sometimes spoil the 
contour of its rich foliage, by nibbling it into untidiness. 
C. polyrrhiza is much neater, and quite invaluable for low damp 
soil on the edge of the bog. Here it runs densely, forming in 
no time enormous ‘mats of low serried leafage, increasing with in- 
satiable vigour ; and then sends up its fine single stems, rather earlier 
than the last, in most generous profusion. Each stem is about 6 or 
8 inches high, naked, and carrying one, or a very few, fine round- 
bagged yellow slippers—an indispensable and indestructible charmer. 
C. scapiflora has the whole habit of C. mendocina, with bare stems 
of greater length attaining some 6 inches, and each carrying a yellow 
purple-dotted pouch much smaller than in C. Mathewsi. It is found 
in the rocks of high-alpine regions, at some 13,000 to 14,000 feet, in 
the Andes of Lima, &c. 
C. umbellata will rejoice us in a new style, for this is a Peruvian 
alpine for hot and sunny faces, producing heads of slippers that are 
not yellow as in the others, but rosy-red. 
C. uniflora is found at the height of 3000 feet in the moraines or 
shingle-slopes of South Patagonia. It forms almost cushiony masses 
and sends up fine stems of 2 or 4 inches, each carrying one or two large 
flowers of pure yellow, unspotted and undefiled. 
Nor need it be thought that this list even begins to tap the promised 
strength of Calceolaria, from the highest alpine regions of South 
America. Even of the neat and appropriate low-growing species, with 
single flowers and cushioned habit, these are only a little foretaste 
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