362 Scrophulariaceae 



slender, 6-15 dm. high, from a woody base; leaves lanceolate or 

 linear or the lower oblong-lanceolate, mostly narrowed at base ; 

 thyrsus virgate, loose, usually elongated; sepals ovate; corolla 

 2.5 cm. long or more, the narrow tube rose-colored or pink, some- 

 times changing to violet, ventricose f unnelform ; the bud often 

 yellowish ; sterile filament glabrous. 



Occasional in the chaparral belt. Santa Monica Mountains; Verdugo 

 Hills; Santa Anita Canyon. 



6. COLLINSIA Nutt. 



Annuals with simple verticillate or opposite leaves, 

 and irregular flowers in whorls forming racemes, or soli- 

 tary in the axils. Calyx campanulate, 5-cleft. Corolla 

 declined, the proper tube very short, the abruptly ex- 

 panded and gibbous throat forming an angle with it, 

 deeply bilabiate, the upper lip erect, 2-cleft ; the lower 

 lip larger, 3-lobed, the lateral lobes spreading or droop- 

 ing, flat, the middle one conduplicate, keel-like, enclosing 

 the 4 declined stamens and the filiform style. Stamens 

 didynamous ; filaments filiform ; anther-sacs confluent 

 at the apex. The fifth stamen represented by a gland 

 on the upper side of the corolla-tube near the base. 

 Stigma small, capitate or 2-lobed. Capsule ovoid or glo- 

 bose, septicidally 2-valved, the valves 2-cleft. Seeds few, 

 large, peltate, concave on the inner side. 



* Flowers verticillate, showy; upper pair of filaments bearded at 

 base. 



1. C. bicolor Benth. Simple or branched above, 1.5-4 dm. 

 high, glabrous or finely pubescent and often viscid above; leaves 

 broadly oblong or the upper narrowed from the broad base to the 

 apex, serrulate, 5 cm. long or less ; flowers crowded in whorl-like 

 clusters, the lowest subtended by leaves, the others by bracts ; 

 pedicels shorter than the oblong or lanceolate calyx-lobes ; corolla 

 about 2 cm. long; the lower lip usually rose-purple ; the upper 

 lilac or white, its lobes nearly as long as those of the lower; 

 throat saccate, bristly within; gland conic. 



Common in open places in the hills and mountains, mostly below 2000 feet 

 altitude. April-May. 



