( 1791 ) 



Delphinium urceolatum. Hollow-leaved 

 Bee-Larkspur. 



Class and Order. 



PoLYANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 

 Cal. 0. Petala 5. Nectarium 2-fidum, postice cornutum. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Delphinium urceolatum ; (tricapsulare) calcare rugoso pe- 

 dicellum aequante, labellis apice barbatis emarginatis, 

 foliis 3 — 5-fidis : lobis acutis tridentatis. 



Delphinium urceolatum; nectariis diphyllis, labellis bifidis 

 apice barbatis, foliis palmatis urceolatis. J acq. Collect. 1. 

 p. 153. Icon.Rar. 1. t. 101. 



Delphinium urceolatum ; nectariis diphyllis, labellis ob- 

 longis bifidis, laciniis lanceolatis asqualibus, foliis peltato- 

 concavis tripartitis pubescentibus, laciniis trifidis. Willd, 

 Sp. PI. 2. 1230. Ejusd. Enum. 1. p. 574. 



Descr. Stem upright, two or three feet high, striated, 

 smooth at the lower part and hairy upwards, a little branched 

 at top. Leaves 7- 5- and 3-lobed, pale underneath, and a 

 little hairy at the edges only : lobes acute, somewhat con- 

 nivent at the points, so as to give a hollowness to the leaf : 

 near the flow r er the leaves are generally simply trifid, with 

 here and there a little tooth. Flowers in a long raceme, 

 pale blue mixed with pink. Pedicels sigmoid, club-shaped, 

 generally with one long linear bracte at the base and two 

 near the flower. Petals in front nearly equal, ovate, acute, 

 with the points inflected : spur thick, rugose, incurved, as 

 long as, or somewhat longer, than the pedicel. Nectary 

 (Petals of Jussieu) two inverted canoe-shaped bodies, pro- 

 tended 



