CALCEOLARIA STANDISHIL 
(Mr. Standish's Slipper-wort.) 
dass, 
DIANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
SCROPH UL ARI ACE^. 
Generic Character. — Calyx four-parted, nearly 
equal ; upper segments generally a little broader than 
the rest. Corolla with a very short tube ; limb bila- 
biate; upper lip short, truncately rounded, entire; 
lower lip large, concave, slipper-shaped. Stamens two, 
inserted in the base of the tube, short ; cells of anthers 
divaricate (one of which is sometimes sterile). Sligma 
simple. Capsule ovate-conical, propped by the perma- 
nent calyx, two- celled, septicidally two-valved ; valves 
bifid ; placentas adnate to the dissepiment. Seeds sul- 
cately angular. — Don's Gard. and Botany. 
Specific Character. — Plant a hybrid, of a half- 
shrubby character, with flowers beautifully blotched 
with reddish-brown on a yellow ground ; the blotches 
mostly in small and short parallel stripes or streaks 
radiating from the centre. 
In order to render our Magazine more acceptable to those who cultivate only 
the most showy and easily-grown tribes of plants, we design occasionally introducing 
figures of new and striking seedling varieties or hybrids ; still securing the interest 
of the more general culturist by taking care that nothing which does not merit 
pubhc favour be admitted. 
As an exemplification of this principle, we now publish a representation of a 
very handsome Calceolaria, which was raised by Mr. John Standish, nurseryman, 
of Bagshot, Surrey, and flowered primarily last summer, when it was exhibited at 
the grand show of the Horticultural Society, in their gardens at Chiswick, in June 
1841. Although then only in a small state, and on this account but poorly 
blossomed, it seemed to us to display a character which stamps it as worthy of 
perpetuation. 
Mr. Standish apprises us that its parentage is C. incomparabilis and a spotted 
seedling of his own ; and adds that "it is subshrubby, and an excellent grower, 
which makes it a decided improvement on C. Alstonii." The flowers are not very 
large ; the lower lip approaches more to a circular than an oval figure ; and the 
whole has a yellow ground, with numerous streaks and blotches of reddish brown. 
These blotches, as above stated, are more like irregular streaks or stripes, short, 
sometimes slightly branching, running nearly in the same direction, but having a 
tendency to radiate outwards from the centre of the flower. 
