1704 



* GILIA tricolor. 

 Three-coloured Gilia. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Polemoniace*. Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System 

 of Botany, p. 219.) 



GILIA. Supra, vol. \9,fol. 1622, in textu. 



§3. EuGiLiA. Folia alterna pinnatijida V. pinnatisecta. Flores subsoli- 

 tarii, v. scepius glomerati. Corollce tubus calyce subbrevior. Bentham 

 supra, fol. 1622. 



G. tricolor ; caule erecto glabro folioso, foliis bipinnatisectis : segmentis lineari- 

 subulatis, corymbis 3-6-floris virgato-paniculatls, coroUis calyce subtriplo 

 longioribus. Bentham I. c. Hort. Trans, n. s. vol. 1. t.\%.f. 3. 



Mr. Bentham, in liis account of this in the Transactions 

 of the Horticultural Society, remarks that it is " perhaps the 

 handsomest of the new Polemoniaceae received from Califor- 

 nia, both from the general appearance of the plant, and the 

 abundance and brilliancy of colour of the flowers. It grows 

 to the height of about a foot, with an erect stem, and foliage 

 much resembling that of G. capitata, but the flowers are very 

 much longer, and instead of being collected in globose heads 

 widely spread at the end of long peduncles, they are few in 

 number in each head ; but the peduncles being much shorter 

 and very numerous, they form a large and rather dense 

 panicle, in which the deep orange of the centre of the colour, 

 and the light purple or white of the margin, separated by a 

 circle of deep purple, show off" to great advantage." 



It is quite hardy, and will grow in any kind of soil. The 

 time of flowering is from July to September, but it may be 

 retarded or advanced by a little management. Nothing can 

 well be prettier than this is when thickly filling a bed a few 

 feet in length and breadth. 



* See fol. 1170. 



