[Plate 55.] 
THE MANY-COLOUEED COLLINSIA. 
(COLLINSIA MULTICOLOR.) 
A heautiful hardy Annual^ from Californiay helonging to the Natural Order of Ltnaiitads 
Specific Ci^aractcr. 
HE MANY COLOURED COLLINSIA. Stem tall, downy. 
Floral leaves smooth underneath, the lowest cordate, 
stem-clasping, ovate-lanceolate, bluntly serrated, the 
middle ones linear,bluntand entire, longer than the flowers, 
\he uppermost abortive. Pedicels with scarcely any 
glands, as long as the calyx which is still more glandless, 
with linear-lanceolate three-ribbed lobes much shorter 
than the corolla. 
COLLINSIA MULTICOLOIi; caule elatopubescente,foliis 
florallbus subtus glaberrimis inferioribus cordatis aniplexi- 
caulibus o%'atolanceolatis obtuse serratis intermediis 
linearibus obtusis integerrimis floribuslongioribussupremis 
abortientibus, pedicellis parce glandulosis calyci eequa- 
libus, calycis laciiiiis vix glandulosis lineain-lanceolatis 
3-nerviis corolla multo breAdoribus. 
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CEEDS of this beautiful annual were received from their collector in California bj Messrs 
ipecimeiis in May 
Coll 
coloured 
o\\ feet liigb, and is loaded with a profusion of gay 
account of the rich purple tint of its long floral leaves, 
flowers. The middle boat-shaped lobe of the lower lip 
of the corolla is crimson, the lower lip itself is lilac, and so is the upper lip except that there is a 
broad white spot in its middle relieved by numerous sanguine speckles. 
From <7, tinctoria this differs in its larger flowers, seated on long pedicels instead of being sessile, 
the result of which is a more loose and beautiful inflorescence. 
In the arrangement of the flowers it agrees with C. bicolor, but it has scarcely any glands on its 
calyx, the lobes of which are linear not ovate, and its leaves are much larger, longer, and more 
coarsely toothed. 
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