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3. CALCEOLARIA. 



Herbs or underslirubs with viscid or hairy rarely glabrous 

 foliage and terminal panicles or cymes of white, yellow, orange, 

 purple, brown, violet or spotted showy flowers. The corolla 

 affords the most striking character of this genus. It is 2-lipped, 

 the upper one being small, and the lower large and inflated, 

 bearing some resemblance to a slipper in some species, hence the 

 generic name from the Latin calceolus, a shoe. In C. jovellana, 

 however, the lips "are nearly equal. Stamens 2. Capsule 2- 

 celled, subtended by the somewhat enlarged calyx. The species 

 are mostly natives of South America, two extending to New 

 Zealand. All those mentioned below are from South 

 America. 



1. C. integrifolia. An erect shrubby species, glabrous, 

 pubescent, or viscid. Leaves varying from linear-lanceolate to 

 ovate, crenate, rugose, narrowed into a short petiole. Flowers 

 numerous, corymbose, yellow. 



2. C. amplexicaidis. This species has ovate-lanceolate 

 sessile stem-clasping crenate very hairy leaves and corymbose 

 panicles of yellow flowers. 0. crenata is a closely allied species 

 with sessile leaves and very numerous though rather smaller 

 flowers. 



In addition to the foregoing there are several nearly or quite 

 hardy species, which will flourish in the warm humid climate of 

 the South-west of England and Ireland ; but they appear to 

 be very rare, and probably some of the best are no longer to 

 be found in cultivation. (7. Fothergillii is one of the hardiest 

 herbaceous kinds, being found as far south as the Falkland 

 Islands. It is a dwarf glandular pubescent herb with villous 

 petiolate spathulate leaves and long narrow yellow and purplish 

 brown flowers. C. plantaginea is an herbaceous scapose 

 Chilian species with broad radical leaves and few yellow flowers 

 spotted with red, on naked scapes about 9 inches high. (7. 

 Kellyana is a hybrid form, said to be quite hardy, and probably 

 the issue of a cross between the last-named and another species. 

 (7. coi^ymbosa has numerous yellow flowers. G. arachnoldea is 

 an erect branching species about 2 feet high, having the 

 spathulate leaves clothed with a dense whitish cobweb-like 

 down and terminal clustered purplish red flowers. (7. alba is 

 a shrubby species with linear remotely toothed leaves and 



