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* CLINTÓNIA pulchélla. 
Pretty Clintonia. 
SYNGENESIA MONOGAMIA, 
Nat. ord. LOBELIACER. 
CLINTONIA.—Supra, vol. 15. fol. 1241. 
C. pulchella ; foliis sepalisque obtusis, corolla laciniis superioribus ovatis acutis 
divaricatis labelli laciniá intermedia productiore; 
LE: 
I figure this little plant more for the sake of recording its 
existence, than from any expectation that it will ever become 
an object of horticultural interest; for since C. elegans, a far 
hardier and more cultivable plant, has disappeared, there can 
be little hope that this, beautiful as it is, will be preserved. 
It only exists at present inthe Garden of the Horticultural 
Society, where it was sent from California by Mr. Douglas. 
It is there treated as a tender annual, and every year a 
small number. of tiny-plants, not at all bigger than those now 
represented, have been raised from the very few seeds ripened 
the previous year. It has been usually grown in a flower- 
pot. 2 
The wild Californian specimens shew this to be a much 
smaller plant, even wild, than C. elegans ; from which it 
differs in its leaves being more obtuse, and its flowers, which 
are twice as large, having the upper segments diverging not 
parallel, the middle lobe of the lower lip longer than the 
others, and the broad lobed white spot in its middle richly 
stained with yellow at the base. 
Seeds are the only means which this plant has of propa- 
gating itself. 
* See fol. 1241. 
