1704 
* GÍLIA tricolor. 
Three-coloured Giha. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Potemoniacez. Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System 
of Botany, p. 219.) 
GILIA. Supra, vol. 19, fol. 1622, in textu. 
.S 3. Eucınıa. Folia alterna pinnatifida v. pinnatisecta. Flores subsoli- 
tari, v. sepius glomerati. Corolle tubus calyce subbrevior. Bentham 
supra, fol. 1622. 
G. tricolor ; caule erecto glabro folioso, foliis bipinnatisectis : segmentis lineari- 
subulatis, corymbis 3-6-floris virgato-paniculatis, corollis calyce subtripló 
longioribus, Bentham l.c. Hort. Trans. n. s. vol. 1. t. 18. 7. 3. 
Mr. Bentham, in his account of this in the Transactions 
of the Horticultural Society, remarks that it is ** perhaps the 
handsomest of the new Polemoniacez received from Califor- 
nia, both from the general appearance of the plant, and the 
abundance and brilliancy of colour of the flowers. It grows 
to the height of about a foot, with an erect stem, and foliage 
much resembling that of G. capitata, but the flowers are very 
much longer, and instead of being collected in globose heads 
widely spread at the end of long peduncles, they are few in 
number in each head ; but the peduncles being much shorter 
and very numerous, they form a large and rather dense 
panicle, in which the deep orange ofthe centre of the colour, 
and the light purple or white of the margin, separated by â 
circle of deep purple, show off to great advantage.' 
It is quite hardy, and will grow in any kind of soil. The 
time of flowering is from July to September, but it may be 
retarded i b E 
ed or advanced by a little mihickly filling a bed a few 
well be prettier than this is when thick 
feet in length and breadth. 
* See fol, 1170. 
