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1622 



COLLOMIA* coccinea. 



Brick-red Collomia. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA 



Nat.ord. Polemoniace* Juss. (Introduction to the natural system 



of Botany, p. 219.) 



COLLOMIA. — Suprd, vol. U.fol. 1166. 



C. coccinea; foliis lanceolato-linearibus supremis ovato-lanceolatis integer 

 rimis, v. apice profundi 3-4-dentatis, calyce semi-5-fido : lacinus lato- 

 lanceolatis obtusis, corollis calyce plus duplo longionbus, staminibus 

 inclusis, capsulse loculis monospermis. Bentham MSS. 



C. coccinea. Lehm. delect, sem. hort. Hamburg. 1832. 



f 1 \*i n -U' t\ . -r. • -• f n I„„ 4. Oftf{ 



— — — - — - — - ^ m — - * V v v ^- ^v — — — — - 



C. lateritia. Don in British ft 



A hardy annual, resembling Collomia linearis, from which it is distin- 

 guished by its deep-red flowers and by the frequent division of the points ot 

 the leaves into three sharp segments of unequal length. . 



It is a native of Chile, whence its seeds were brought by Mr. Cuming. 

 If sown thick in a large mass, it is tolerably pretty ; but single plan s have 

 very little to recommend them. It is, however, a good plant to mix with 



other flowers for bouquets. . , . „ .,_ a nvBfir1l 



The seeds should be sown in March, in the open border, when the flowers 



will appear in June : if again sown shortly after that time a se <T d c ^? 

 flowers may be had in September and October, seasons which suit it rather 



better than the dog days. ■ . u , a • ,„ 



Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticultural Society. 



* 



A considerable number of very pretty and remarkable new species of this 

 natural order of plants having been recently rece.ved from Cahfornm by the 

 Horticultural Society, Mr. Bentham has obligingly furnished us w h the 

 following epitome of their characters, which we are sure will be extremely 

 acceptable to our Botanical readers. 



T » • c A,in« Minibus vix membranaceis, 



.HuGELiA-t Calyx tubuloso-campanulatus r^l'^c^mivLnAxb^foTrri^, tubo 

 kcmns subinajqualibus linearibus rigidis subspinous. J^°" a m Stamina ad faucem 

 breviter exserto. limbo 5-oartito, laciniis oblongis mtegerrlmis. ouxm 





* See folio 1 1 06. 



oee foho 1 1 06. s Hnralia of Reitbeubach is 



. t In honour of Baron Charles de Hugel of Vienna. Hogelia 



Didiscus D. C. 







