CALCEOLARIAS, 



needs large pots and rich soil, but is best 

 planted out where room can be spared. 



C. chelidonioides. — An annual of i to 3 feet, 

 neat in habit, with pretty pale yellow flowers, 

 thriving in moist, shady places beside water, 

 and naturalised in some of the warmer parts of 

 Britain, sowing itself freely. Does well in full 

 sunlight. Ecuador and Peru. 



C.corymbosa. — One of the herbaceous sorts 

 used in crossing, its influence being seen in the 

 broad leaves, robust habit, and large yellow 

 flowers of many garden hybrids. It is the com- 

 monest kind in Chili, with a wide range and 

 variable form, the large oblong flowers of bright 

 yellow being much inflated, with a large gap 

 in the lower lip and often shaded within by 

 reddish veins. Chili. 



C. crenatijiora. — A robust herbaceous plant 

 much used in crossing, giving to certain strains 

 their spotted flowers with long hanging 

 pouches. Ample leaves and flowers in large 

 clusters with a tiny upper lip and the large 

 lower one notched, crumpled, and dotted with 

 red. It is a showy kind, doing well outside in 

 summer in moist but sunny spots. Chili and 

 Isle of Chiloe, in damp ground beside water. 

 Syn. G.pendula. C. glandulosa comes near this 

 but has smallers flowers of white or pale yellow. 



C. Darwin/. — A rare and handsome species 

 coming near C. Fothergillii, but with flowers 

 twice its size. 



C. dentata. — A shrubby species akin to C. 

 adscendens, but longer in leaf and with larger 

 and more abundant flowers. This kind is one 

 parent of the shrubby border kinds used for 

 summer bedding. Chili. Syn. C. chiloensis. 



G.jiexuosa. — A fine sub-shrub with a woody 

 stock and stems, slender and a little weak, with 

 thin rounded leavesof 3 to4inchesandcoarsely 

 toothed, and heavy clusters of large rounded 

 flowers of golden y ellow,with a yellowish calyx. 

 Peru. A handsome pillar plant for the green- 

 house and oneof the best shrubby kinds for the 

 summer garden. 



C. Fothergillii. — A very old plant, brought 

 from the Falkland Islands in 1777, and several 

 times reintroduced; probably not now in culti- 

 vation, for though beautiful and hardy it is not 

 easily grown. It is the best known of the alpine 

 kinds from Patagonia, growing as a low tufted 

 herb with hairy spoon-shaped leaves and short 

 slender stems bearing each a single flower. 



These appear about May and vary, but are 

 mostly a blend of yellow and purplish-brown, 

 the upper lip reduced to a tiny disk and the 

 lower about an inch wide and very open. To 

 do well it needs to be studied as to soil and 

 climate, doing best in partial shade with its 

 roots packed between chalky stones. In water- 

 ing it is important not to damp the leaves. 

 Crossed with other species this has given seve- 

 ral hybrids rather less delicate. 



C. fuchsicefolia. — A stout woody shrub or 

 2 to 4 feet, like a Fuchsia in leaf and habit, 

 with glossy leaves pale beneath, and rich yellow 

 flowers freely carried duringthe winter. Itdoes 

 not thrive everywhere so well as in Scotland, 

 , where it is valued for winter effect. To secure 

 i this it should be grown freely during summer 

 in cool, shady places (its leaves being sensitive 

 to sunlight), and housed early in September, 

 flowering from October throughout thewinter 

 if only it can be kept from fog — to which it is 

 mostsensitive. Oneof the hardiest kinds where 

 it succeeds, it does well in rooms or the border, 

 and though it can bear only the mildest of 

 southern winters in the open, it needsonly bare 

 protection from frost. Peru. Syn. C. dejiexa. 

 Nearly allied kinds are Gs.cerasifolia,padifolia, 

 and tetragona. 



C. Henrici. — A handsome shrubby ever- 

 green from the Andes of Cuenca in Ecuador, 

 of long Willow-like leaves and rounded flowers 

 of deep yellow, with a large upper lip. 



C.hyssopifolia. — A leafy shrub of erect habit, 

 with slender stems and narrow down-covered 

 leaves; flowersof clearpaleyellow,inshapelike 

 the garden hybrids, but smaller. One of the 

 best kinds for warm gardens during summer. 

 Andes of Quito, at from 9,000 to 1 3,000 feet. 

 Nearly allied to this are Cs. Hartwegii, lanan- 

 dulcefolia, rosmarinifolia, and gossypina — plants 

 of Ecuador and New Granada. 



C. integrifolia. — The source of the shrubby 

 border Calceolaria, a plant common in Chili 

 and very variable. The leaf is mostly broad 

 and Sage-like, toothed, whitish below, and 

 often gummy, but there are also narrow-leaved 

 forms. The flowers also vary much in size and 

 colour, but are mostly lemon-yellow, with lips 

 unequal in size and closely compressed. The 

 plant known as C. rugosa is a form of this, with 

 flowers of deep yellow and leaves covered be- 

 neath with rusty down. 



