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CALCEOLARIA* floribunda. 
Many -flowered Lady's Slipper. 
- pIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. isi ScROPHULARINER. ; 
CALCEOLARIA. — Supra, vol. 9. fol. 723. 
C. floribunda ; hirtello-viscosa, foliis ovatis basi attenuatis amplexicaulibus 
dentatis pubescentibus, superioribus cordatis sessilibus, racemis paten- 
tissimis pendulisve bifidis multifloris, sepalis ovatis, floribus geminis. 
C. floribunda. Humb. Bonpl. et Kunth nov. gen. et sp. pl. 2. 309. Romer 
et Schultes syst. veg. 7. 160. Spreng. syst. 1. 46. 
C. paniculata. Herb. Willd. sec. R. et S. 
C. connata. Bot. mag. 2876. 
Planta 3-pedalis, erecta, ramosa, in hortis herbacea, subannua, vero- 
similiter in solo natal suffrutescens. Caulis erectus, teres, glanduloso-hir- 
sutus, viscosus, percurrens (axin occupans), unde ramos quosdam, paucos 
verd, emittit. Folia leté viridia, glanduloso-pubescentia, subrugosa, utrinque 
concolora, dentata, acuta, inferiora ovata in petiolum attenuata, amplext- 
caulia, superiora sessilia, alte cordata, demum in bracteis cordatis integer- 
rimis mutata. Racemi glanduloso-pilosi, glutinosi, axillares, longé pe- 
dunculati, patentissimi, vel penduli, multiflori, bifidi, foliis dupld v. tripld 
longiores, moz in paniculam copiosam ad fastigium evanescentes. Flores 
subsecundi, geminati. Calyx pedicello dupld brevior, sepalis subrotundo- 
ovatis. Corolla flava, labiis conniventibus. 
A fine hardy species, newly introduced from Chile. It 
forms an upright, branching plant, covered with a pro- 
fusion of drooping racemes of delicate, pale-yellow blossoms, 
during all the autumn. In its own country it appears to 
be suffrutescent ; but with us it is better treated as an 
annual, turned into the open border in May, and left in 
the autumn to perish with others of similar habits. It will 
* So called from calceolus, a slipper; in allusion to the figure of the 
corolla. 
