Tas. 8730. 
CASTILLEJA MINIATA. 
North America. 
ScROPHULARIACEAE. Tribe EUPHRASIEAE, 
CastitLEsa, Mutis; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen Plant. vol. ii. p. 973. 
Castilleja miniata, Dougl. in Hook. Fl. Bor.-Amer. vol. ii. p. 106 ; Benth. in 
DC. Prodr. vol. x. p. 582; A. Gray in Brewer & Wats. Bot. Calif. 
vol. i. p. 574, et Syn. Fl. N. Amer, vol. ii. pars 1, ed. 2, p. 297; Howell, Fl. 
Northwest Amer. vol. i. p. 581; Piper in Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb. vol. xi. 
» p. 515; Henshaw, Mountain Wild Flow. Amer. p. 170; Elwes in Gard. 
Chron. 1916, vol. Ix. p. 9, fig. 4; species C. pallidae, Kunth, var. septen- 
trionali, A. Gray, simillima, sed corollae labio postico longiore praesertim 
differt. 
Herba perennis. Caules e caudice sublignoso orti, adscendentes vel erecti, 
simplices, usque ad 5 dm. alti, 3-4 mm. crassi, parce pilosi vel inferne 
glabri, virides vel leviter purpurascentes, siccitate plus minusve nigro- 
purpurascentes. /olia alterna, sessilia, lanceolata vel inferiora linearia, 
apice angustata vel caudata, acutiuscula, integra vel apicem versus pauci- 
dentata, 4°5-8 cm. longa, 4-12 mm. lata, 3-nervia, puberula, interdum 
marginibus nervisque ciliatis. Flores brevissime pedicellati, in racemum 
vel spicam terminalem 7-10 cm. longum primum confertim demum laxius 
dispositi. Bracteae oblongo-lanceolatae, integrae vel apice incisae vel 
dentatae, calyces vix superantes, glanduloso-pubescentes, 3-nerviae, in- 
feriores fere omnino virides, superiores fere omnino speciose coccineae. 
Calyx tubulosus, incurvus, 2-2°5 cm. longus, postice profunde antice 
paulum profundius fissus, glanduloso-pubescens, inferne pallide viridis, 
superne plus minusve coccineus; lobi 4, triangulari-lanceolati, 5-8 mm. 
longi, basi 1°25-2 mm. lati, acuti vel apiculati. Corolla 2°5-8°5 cm. 
longa; tubus tubuloso-infundibuliformis, incurvus, 1°5-2 cm. longus, 
pubescens, albidus; labium posticum cymbiforme, margine involutum, 
apice denticulatum, sat dense breviterque glanduloso-pubescens, dorso 
pallide viride, margine coccineum; labium anticum 1°5-2 mm. longum, 
8-lobum, basi labii postici adpressum, viride. Stamina 4, didynama, 
longiora corollae subaequilonga; filamenta filiformia, glabra; antherae 
: 2-loculares, parce pilosae. Ovariwm ellipsoideum, apice obliquum, 
4-5 mm. longum, glabrum; stylus filiformis, glaber, breviter exsertus, 
stigmate leviter 2-lobato.— C. pallida, var. wnalaschcensis, Cham. & 
Schlecht. in Linnaea, vol. ii. p. 581, partim. C. pallida, var. miniata, 
A. Gray in Amer. Journ. Sci. ser. 2, vol. xxxiv. p. 337. Huchroma integri- 
folia, Nutt. ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. vol. x. p. 582.—S. A. Sxan. 
The genus Castilleja is composed of herbs or under- 
shrubs which appear to be parasitic on the roots of other 
plants and are for this reason, as is the case with many 
_ Ocroser, 1917. 
