1909 



* CLINTONIA pulchella. 



Pretty Clintonia. 



SYNGENESIA MONOGAMIA. 



Nat. ord. Lobeliace^e. 



CLINTONIA .—Snpn), vol. 1 5. fol. 1241. 



C. pulchella ; foliis sepallsque obtusls, corollae laciniis superioribus ovatis acutis 

 divaricatis labelli lacinia intermedia productiore. 



I figure this little plant more for the sake of recording its 

 existence, than from any expectation that it will ever become 

 an object of horticultural interest ; for since C. elegans, a far 

 hardier and more cultivable plant, has disappeared, there can 

 be little hope that this, beautiful as it is, will be preserved. 



It only exists at present in the Garden of the Horticultural 

 Society, where it was sent from California by Mr. Douglas. 

 It is there treated as a tender annual, and every year a 

 small number of tiny plants, not at all bigger than those now 

 represented, have been raised from the very few seeds ripened 

 the previous year. It has been usually grown in a flower- 

 pot. 



The wild Californian ' specimens shew this to be a much 

 smaller plant, even wild, than C. elegans ; from which it 

 differs in its leaves being more obtuse, and its flowers, which 

 are twice as large, having the upper segments diverging not 

 parallel, the middle lobe of the lower lip longer than the 

 others, and the broad lobed white spot in its middle richly 

 stained with yellow at the base. 



Seeds are the only means which this plant has of propa- 

 gating itself. 



* See fol. 1241. 



