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CALCEOLARIA CORYMBOSA, «ar. JUPITER. 
(JUPITER CALCEOLARIA, OR SLIPPER-WORT.) 
CLASS. 
ORDER. 
PIANDRIA, 
MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
SCROPHULARINE^. 
Generic Character. — Calyx four-cleft. Corolla monopetalous, two-lipped, infialed. Capsule two- 
celled and four-valved. 
Specific Character. — Plant perennial, herbaceous. Stems a foot or more high, erect, simple, covered ■ 
with soft hairs, of a purple colour. Lower Leaves ovate, obtuse, having a short leaf stalk, and || 
notched. Stem Leaves heart-shaped, embracing the stem, opposite. Flowers in a corymb. 
Flower Stems long and slender, covered also with pubescence like the stem. Calyx broadly ovate, 
spreading, partly acute. Corolla, upper lip small, lower one large and inflated, bright yellow. 
Germen globose. 
Var. Jupiter. — Stem a foot and a half or two feet high, covered with pubescence. Root Leaves ©blong- 
lanceolate, obtuse, doubly notched. Stem Leaves ovate, obtuse, opposite. Corymbs forked, con- 
sisting of thirty or forty flowers. Calyx ovate, acuminate. Corolla, upper lip small, yello'w', 
incurved ; lower lip large, of a deep brovmish red, with a yellow border, and slightly notched ; ■ 
in-side purple at the mouth, and below yellow. 
This is one of the many beautiful varieties of Calceolaria raised by Messrs. 
collection. It is nearly, if not altogether, hardy. Nevertheless it is best, whatever 
kinds are grown on borders, to shelter them from excessive wet in winter, if they 
are not taken up and placed in pots. 
For the particulars of successful culture, see Vol. I., page 246, 
Young. It is certainly a very splendid kind, and well deserves to be in every 
