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SCHIZANTHUS candidus. 



White Schizanthus. 



DIANDRIA M0N06YNIA. 



Nat. ord. Scrophulariace/e. 

 SCHIZANTHUS. Supra vol. 9.fol. 725. 



S. candidus ; foliis pinnatifidis, laciniis linearibus undulatis integris, corolla? 

 labio inferiore 3-lobo : laciniis lateralibus setaceis intermedia biloba 

 acutissima, labio superiore alte bilobo. 



Botanists have raised this pretty genus from one, of which 

 it originally consisted, to four, or, with two now to be added, 

 to six! There also appears a seventh on our books, but that 

 is not distinguishable from S. pinnatus. All of them are pro- 

 bablv, and five of them are certainly, in the country. A short 

 enumeration of them will we trust be useful. 



The original S. pinnatus has interruptedly pinnated leaves, 

 with crenated, pinnatifid, or toothed lobes, varying .much m 

 form. The flowers are lilac, with a purple lower lip whose 

 lateral lobes are at once falcate and spathulate From th* 

 S. porrigens was distinguished by ^r. Graham on a^ ^t f 

 its diverging flower-stalks, pale lower lip, and perbap ^ scarce^ 

 emarginate upper lip; but as the same parce ^ d P r ?^ 



duces both, and as they ^^ M ^^r^^^ 

 the seed-beds, they do not appear distinct. Other varieties, 

 especially our S. pinnatus humihs, are known. 



From this must be separated a Coquimbo P^t, found by 



S. Hookeri is something like the t-^^***^ 

 hairy,, and very mneh larger » all «*£., fte d,^ ^ 

 the pinnate leaves are narrow, and WB*™^ acuIn i„ate 

 lower lip of the corolla cons.stsoi.ery ™ and 



hristle-pointed pieces, the lateral of wnicn^ »« h 



short; the upper lip is almost ""f^^Zw&Kp. 

 colour of the flowers is lilac, with a yellow stain on the upper up 



