Lady's purse, slipper flower, pocketbook flower, or slipperwort, Calceolaria ascendens. Native to Chile, sent to the Glasgow Botanic Garden. Sage-leaved slipper-flower, Calceolaria rugosa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan after a botanical illustration by Robert Kaye Greville from William Jackson Hooker's Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823-27.

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