Tab. 6378. 

 GILIA Brandegei. 



Native of Colorado. 



Nat. Orel. Polemon/acfje. 

 Genus Gilia, Ruiz and Pav. (Bctith. and Hook,/. Gen. Plant, v. ii. p. 822). 



Gilia {Eugilia) Brandegei; glanduloso-pilosa, e basi ramosa, caulibus erectis 

 simplicibus, foliis alternis radicalibus lineari-elongatis pinnatisectis seg- 

 ments elliptico-ovatis subacutis integris v. ^l-partitis et quasi 4-natim verti- 

 cillatis, floribus thyrsoideo-spicatis, bracteis inferioribus foliaceis superioribus 

 3-fidis v. laciniatis, calycis tubulosi segmentis linearibus, corolla? straminese 

 tubo calyce duplo longiore gracili superne lente dilatato, limbi plani loins 

 brevibus rotundatis apiculatis, filamentis brevibus rectis fauce corolla? in- 

 sertis, antheris didymis, stigmate 3-lido. 



G. Brandegei, Gray in Proc. Amer. Acad. v. xi. p. 85 ; Synopt. Fl. N. Amer. v. ii. 

 p. 149. 



This very remarkable plant tends to unite the otherwise 

 dissimilar genera Gilia and Polemonium, having the straight 

 glabrous filaments of the former, with the habit of the latter ; 

 whilst in the colour of the flower, it differs from both. It 

 it an exceedingly rare plant, discovered by the very intelli- 

 gent and energetic collector whose name it bears, on perpen- 

 dicular rocks at the source of the Rio Grande in the Rocky 

 Mountains of S. W. Colorado. It was again found by Drs. Gray 

 and Lamborn, very sparingly, on the Sierra Blanca, in 

 Southern Colorado, in July, 1877, at an elevation of upwards 

 of 12,000 feet ; on which occasion I had the pleasure of seeing 

 the living specimens, though I nowhere found the plant my- 

 self during the excursion on that mountain which I made 

 with those gentlemen; they form the var. Lamborni of Gray 

 (Synopt. Fl. 1. c.), distinguished by its lurid yellowish or 

 greenish flowers. I am indebted to Mr. Thompson, of 

 Ipswich, for the specimen here figured, which he raised from 

 Colorado seed and flowered in May of the present year. 



Descr. Covered everywhere (corolla externally included) 

 with glandular pubescence, tufted, erect ; stems six to eight 



AUGUST 1st, 1878. 



