Tas. 4876. 
GILIA pDIANTHOIDEs. 
Pink-like Gilia. 
Nat. Ord. PoLEMONIACEZ.—PENTANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 
Gen, Char. Calyx tubuloso- vel obconico-campanulatus, 5-fidus, laciniis acutis. 
Corolla infundibuliformis, nunc tubo longissimo fere hypocraterimorpha, nunc 
tubo brevissimo subrotata, limbo regulari. Stamina ad faucem vel paulo infra 
equaliter inserta, filamentis basi nudis vel piloso-appendiculatis. Discus cupuli- 
formis, rarius obscurus. Ovarium ovoideum. Ovuia in loculis seepius plurima 
(6-10) biseriata, interdum pauca, imo solitaria, nunc numerosissima 3—4 seriata. 
Styli lobi seepe papilloso-hispidi. Capsula oblonga vel obovoidea, obtusa. Se- 
mina ovoidea, angulata vel compressa, rarius angustissime alata.—Herbz annue 
vel perennes, glabra, vel superne pubescentes vel lanate. Folia alterna vel oppo- 
sita, subulata vel linearia, integra vel dissecta. Flores nune capitati, bracteis suf- 
Julti vel ebracteati, nune sepius dissiti ebracteati. Corolle elegantes, lilacine pur- 
purascentes albide vel rarius flavicantes. DC. 
Gra (§ Dianthoides) dianthoides ; pusilla, simplex vel ramosissima glabra vel 
hirsuta, ramis 1-paucifloris, foliis linearibus, floribus pedunculatis, corolle 
lobis acutis serratis. 
Gita dianthoides. End. Atakt. t. 29. Benth. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 9. p. 314. 
Frnz1ta dianthiflora. Benth. in Bot. Reg. (under Tab. 1622, Collomia coccinea). 
Hook. Ic. Plant. v. 2. p. 199. 
This lovely annual, so well suited for a bedding-out plant, is 
a native of California, where it was discovered by Douglas; but 
is only now introduced to our gardens by the Messrs. Veitch, of 
the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, through their collector, Mr. 
William Lobb. Pretty as the species is in its wild state, and 
as figured at Tab. 199 of our ‘Icones Plantarum,’ cultivation so 
much improves it that at first sight it would be hardly recog- 
nized as the same; for it becomes, from a little upright, scarcely 
branched plant, with two or three flowers, a closely ramified and 
spreading one, the filiform branches and small linear leaves com- 
pletely covered and concealed by the numerous blossoms, of the 
most delicate lilac colour, each having five dark blood-coloured 
OCTOBER lst, 1855. 
