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CACALIA bicolor. 
Bicolor Cacalia. 
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA JEQUALIS. 
Nat. Ord. Corymeirer®. Jussieu gen. 177. 
CACALIA. Supra fol. 101. 
; Div. Herbacee. 
C. bicolor, caule herbaceo ramoso, foliis lanceolatis glabris dentatis : 
caulinis (superioribus) amplexicaulibus; rameis (inferioribus) petio- 
latis. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1731. 
Cacalia bicolor. Roxburgh MSS. corom. cum tab. pict. ined. Salisb. 
paradis. 25. Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 4. 499. 
Perennis, bipedalis : caulis ramosus, glaber, striatus, Susco-purpurascens, 
rami subvillosi, erecto-patentes, florigeri. Folia decrescentia, glabriuscula, 
subtis Jere semper lete purpurea ; inferiora petiolata, lanceolata, laxius nec 
«egualitêr inciso-serrata, summa ramis supposita amplexicaulia sublyrato- 
sagittata. Pedunculi caulis ramorumque terminales, rari, distantes, fasti- 
po. villosiusculi, striati, uniflori, consiti bracteis nonnullis vagis mem- 
ranosis subulatis, summis imo calyci contiguis patentissimis. Flores puniceo 
crocali, fere unciam alti, Cal. cylindricus, oblongus, apicibus purpureis 
acutis. Flosculi numerosi, excedentes calycem, subnutantes v. curvati versús 
peripheriam floris. Stigmata divaricato-ezserta. Catera fermê ac in C. 
ovali folii superioris 101. 
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This fine coloured species, according to Dr. Roxburgh, 
was received at the botanic garden in Calcutta, from the 
Moluccas, in 1790; and was introduced by Sir Joseph Banks 
into this country in 1799. 
An herbaceous perennial plant, in our specimen about 
two feet high; stem dark-purple, somewhat angular, 
smooth, branched. Leaves scarcely succulent, usually of 
a fine bright purple at the under side, nearly smooth, or 
with a slight scattered pubescence on the middle nerve; 
lower ones petioled, lanceolate, deeply distantly and un- 
equally serrate; upper stem-clasping, lyrately sagittate. 
Flowers between crimson and orange colour, nearly an inch 
long, terminating the stem and branches in a loose few- 
flowered panicle; peduncles distant, striate, somewhat vil- 
lous, growing out into a loosely scattered corymb, beset 
with a few irregular distant subulate membranous bractes, 
the upper ones of which are patent, and sutround the base 
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