It is stated that it was first grown in this country in 
1874. There is a plant in the Rock Garden at Kew 
which was received some years ago from the nursery of 
Sir J. Gore Booth, Lissadell, Sligo. This has thriven 
well in a partially shaded position in ordinary soil, and 
has proved quite hardy. It flowers annually in June 
and is easily propagated by seeds. The species has also 
flowered in the varden of Mrs. Longstaff at Wimbledon 
and in that of Mr. Balfour at Dawyck. When viewed 
in great numbers and amid natural surroundings it is an 
unusually striking plant. ‘For mass of colour,” writes. 
Mr. Balfour regarding C. miniata and allied species, “ I 
never saw anything equal to them except perhaps a 
British poppy field.’ Several species of the genus have 
appeared in gardens from time to time; one of these, 
C. indivisa, Engelm., from Texas, is figured at t. 6376 of 
this work. 
Descriprion.—Herb, perennial; stems unbranched, ascending or erect from 
a woody stock, up to 1} ft. high, xe in. thick, sparingly hairy or glabrous 
downwards, green or faintly purplish, more or less dark purple when dry. 
Leaves alternate, sessile, lanceolate or the lower linear, narrowed or caudate at 
the tip, rather acute, entire or sparingly toothed near the tip, 13-3 in. long, 
6- in. wide, 3-nerved, puberulous, occasionally ciliate along the nerves and 
the margin. Flowers shortly pedicelled, at first closely, ultimately rather 
loosely clustered in a terminal raceme or spike 8-4 in. long. Bracts oblong- 
lanceolate, entire or incised or toothed at the tip, hardly longer than the calyx, 
glandular-pubescent, 3-nerved, the lower wholly green, the upper almost wholly 
bright pink. Calyx tubular, incurved, #-1 in. long, deeply cleft behind, more- 
deeply in front, glandular-pubescent, pale green below, more or less pink 
upwards; lobes 4, triangular-lanceolate, 3-1 in. long, ysis in. wide at the 
base, acute or apiculate. Corolla 1-1} in. long; tube tubular-funnel-shaped,,. 
incurved, §—$ in. long, pubescent, whitish ; upper lip boat-shaped with involute 
edges and denticulate tip, closely shortly glandular-pubescent, pale green on 
the back, the margins pink ; lower lip 3-3 in. long, 3-lobed, adpressed to the 
base of the upper lip, green. Stamens 4, didynamous, the longer pair nearly as 
long as the corolla; filaments filiform, glabrous; anthers 2-celled, sparingly 
hairy. Ovary ellipsoid with the tip oblique, 4-s_in. long, glabrous; style 
filiform, glabrous, shortly exserted ; stigma shortly 2-lobed. 
TAB. 8730.—Fig. 1, bract; 2, flower; 3, flower with the calyx laid open ; 
4 and 5, anthers with portions of filaments; 6, pistil:—all enlarged. 
