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SCHIZANTHUS pinnatus. 

 Lady Tankerville's Schizanthua, 



DIDTNAHIA AUTGIOSPERMIA. 



HaU ord, ScROPHt7LARiNJE. Cat divisus, persistenB. CW. 1-petaIa 

 hypogyna, saepiils irregularis, aestivatione hnbricat& ; decidnft. £ifam«. ple- 

 nkmque didynama, rard tequflOiaj qoando^oe 2. Germ. polTspennum, 2-loc 

 Stj/lus 1. Stiffma 2-lobum^ rard iDdivisum, Caps* (ranssua^ Bacca) 2- 

 loc.» 2-4-Talvis, ralvis integris y. 2-fidi8» dissepimeato t. duplicato ex inflexis 

 mai^ibus TalTarum orto ; vel simplici panulelo integro, sive contrario bi- 

 partibili. PlacenttB centrales^ septo '^dnatae, t. demftdi solutae. Sem. nii- 

 merosa, albuminosa* J9iidry> incluaus, i«ctufl. SadieuU umbilicum spec- 

 tante. 



Herbm (quandoque JruHcesJ stspHis <rppo$iHfoluB, InfioresceiUia wma, 

 Obs. Relatio duwepunen/f ad vahtUas capwtUts plurihculamf give ilbtd 

 cantrarium v^paraUelum sitf magni vntoris semper fadt lUuMir. J-usrieu ; etob 

 hone eausam Rhododendra ma ab Ericis, Peaiculares d Scrophulariis segre- 

 gat^ genera semper dirtmens arctS aj^nitatejuncta ; hjBc nota tamen qua ad 

 genera disttnguenda^ plerumque, nee semper^ vaki, minimi m^cit, dmm 

 oKw hand comitata ad eorum separatianem m ordinUms diversis^ ut heuteHf 

 tir probalum est tn plurtbus genetihus kt^us famiRm, pr^BSerUm tn Vbro- 

 Nic^^ ct^usinvariisq^eciebusmodiferiamnesdehiMcentuiBcbtitienl^ Brown 

 prod. 1. 433. 



SCHIZANTHU8. Cor. irregutarb: labio superiore 6-fido: inferiore 

 tripartito; FHfi. % fertUia* Caps. 2^oGuIaris. Persoon <yit. 2. 361. 



S. pMfuiiM, foliis mterropt^ piimatis. Ruiz et Paiomfi> ptnwf* 1. 18. /. 17. 

 Scbizanthus piimatus. Per^m^ lyn. 2. 261. ' 



Plania herbacea, nUis hmgunr^us ghmAdS termmaiis* Badix^/^&^t^ 

 hsd, Caulis 2-peda2tf erecf ut , pantot ramww* teres. Rami aUemi, am- 

 similes. FoL altema, brevithr petiolata, interrupti pinnata: foliola sessilia: 

 majora laciniato-pinnat^da : minora lanceoiata, int^ra. lF\oreB panum- 

 lati : pedicelli i-Jlwi, filiformes^ bracteolis 2 hmceolatiM suffuUt Cor. cm- 

 Tuko^nolacea : labium superius variegatmt: inferius purpureo-vittatum. 

 I^^. striata viliosa. Stigma emargtMtum. Caps, bilocularis bivahis; val* 

 vuHs Hpartitis. Ruiz et Pavou, foe. cit 



A genus established by Messrs. Ruiz and Pavon, as* 

 sociates in the celebrated journey destined to the in- 

 vestigation of the Flora of Chili and Peru. The species 

 before us is figured from the dried plant, in the work 

 published by those meritorious naturalists on their return 

 from that expedition ; and now from the live plant, which 



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