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CALC^pLARIA TETRAGONA. 
and dwarf brandling habit of growth, and bears oblong-ovate blunt entire leaves. The flowers, which 
form loose corymbs at the ends of the stems, are large, with a pale-green calyx, and the lower lip of 
the corolla forms a broad squarish pouch of a pale yellow colour. 
The habit of this new Slipperwort being all that can be desired in an ornamental plant, and being 
accompanied by clean-looking, ample, shining foliage, and numerous showy flowers, the form of which, 
CALCEOLARIA TETRAGONA, 
though not exactly agreeing with the artificial “ cherry-bob ” standard, is not at all inelegant, it is to 
be hoped that some persevering hybridizers will at once endeavour, by its aid, to rescue the Calceolaria 
as a garden flower from the neglect into which the execrable habit it has now acquired has almost 
everywhere consigned it. 
Like the other shrubby species of Slipperwort, the present may be increased readily by means of 
cuttings of the young shoots; and the plants will grow freely in a mixture of equal parts of turfy 
loam, peat, and leaf mould. It, of course, requires greenhouse protection.—M. 
