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mag. 2894.) plant erect, branched, rather downy at top ; leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate, entire, shining, ciliated with glands ; calyx 5- 

 cleft, villous, glandular ; corolla ventricose ; limb spreading ; 

 cells of capsule 1-seeded. Q. H. Native of North-west America, 

 in the country bordering on the river Columbia; and as far east- 

 ward as the Rocky mountains. Stem purple. Heads of 

 flowers hemispherical, pruinose, clammy. Corollas like those 

 of C. linearis, of a peculiar reddish yellow, or nankeen colour. 



Great-Jlortered Collomia. Fl. Ju. Oct. Clt. 1826. PI. l 

 to 2 feet. 



5 C. GILIOIDES (Benth. in bot. reg. under no. 1622.) leaves 

 pinnate ; leaflets linear, entire ; calyx deeply 5-cleft ; stamens 

 inclosed; cells of capsule 1-seeded. Q. H. Native of Cali- 

 fornia, Douglas. Corollas very like those of C. graciUt. 



Gilia-like Collomia. PL 1 foot. 



6 C. GLCTIXO'SA (Benth. 1. c.) procumbent; leaves deeply 

 pinnatifid, almost pinnate ; segments oblong-linear, entire, or a 

 little cut ; calyx nearly 5-parted ; stamens longer than the 

 corolla; cells of capsule 1-seeded. . H. Native of Cali- 

 fornia, Douglas. Corollas like those of C. gracili*. 



Clammy Collomia. PL procumbent. 



7 C. NAVARRE'TIA ; leaves pinnately muhifid ; segments 

 linear-subulate ; flowers capitate, involucrated by numerous 

 bracteas; stem downy, simple, or a little branched. Q. H. 

 Native of Chili. Navarretia involucrata. Ruiz, et Pav. fl. per. 

 2. p. 8. Segments of calyx furnished with 3 pungent teeth. 

 Stamens exserted. Stigma bifid. Capsule 2-celled, few-seeded, 

 ex Ruiz, et Pav. 1. c. Corolla purple. 



Xatarretia Collomia. PL to 1 foot. 



8 C. GRA'CILIS (Benth. 1. c.) plant erect, branched, clothed 

 with glandular down; leaves lanceolate-oblong, obtuse ; calyx 

 5-parted ; calycine segments long, subulate ; stamens inclosed ; 

 cells of capsule 1-seeded. Q. H. Native of the north-west 

 coast of America, on the banks of the Spokan river ; and on 

 high ground, near Flat Head river, on light soils ; and Califor- 

 nia, Douglas ; Chili, Cuming ; Src. Gilia graeilis, Doug, in 

 bot. mag, 2924. Lower leaves opposite. Flowers crowded at 

 the extremities of the branches, at length elongated into ra- 

 cemes. Calyx clothed with black glands. Corolla small, with 

 a yellow tube, rose-coloured limb, and oval segments. 



Slender Collomia. Fl. Ju. Oct. Clt. 1826. PL 1 foot. 



9 C. CAVAXILLESIA'XA ; suflruticose ; leaves pinnate ; leaflets 

 long, linear, entire ; peduncles axillary, solitary, usually 5- 

 flowered ; corolla 3 times longer than the calyx, which is 5- 

 cleft; cells of capsule 1-seeded. tj . G. Native of Monte 

 Video and Buenos Ayres. Phlox pinnata, Cav. icon. 6. p. 

 17. t. 528. f. 1. Poir. diet, suppl. 4. p. 397. Cantua glomeri- 

 flora, Juss. ann. mus. 3. p. 119. Roem. et Schultes, syst. 4. p. 

 368. Flowers disposed in heads, small, cream-coloured. 



Catanilles's Collomia. PL 1 to 2 feet. 



Cult. All the species are of the most easy culture, the seeds 

 only requiring to be sown in the open border in spring. Some 

 of the kinds are rather showy. 



XI. CALDA'SIA (named aftei J. Caldas, a botanist of Santa 

 Fe de Bogota.) Willd. hort. berol. 1. p. 71. t. 71. enuro. 1. p. 202. 

 H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 3. p. 166. D. Don, in edinb. 

 phil. journ. Bonplandia, Cav. icon. 6. p. 21. t. 532. 



Lix. STST. Pentandria, Monogynia. Calyx tubular, 5- 

 toothed, equal to the corolla in length. Corolla somewhat funnel- 

 shaped, unequal ; limb 5-lobed ; lobes cuneated, emarginate. Sta- 

 mens 5, equal, inserted in the middle of the tube, declinate, ex- 

 serted. Capsule oblong, trigonal ; valves membranous ; cells 

 1-seeded. Seeds oblong, somewhat trigonal, convex outside, 

 mucilaginous. Albumen sparing. Radicle hardly shorter than 

 the cotyledons. A much branched, annual, erect herb, clothed 



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with glandular hairs. Leaves alternate, simple, elliptic-acumi- 

 nated, serrated. Flowers axillary, twin, pedicellate, bractless. 

 Corolla of a violet-blue colour, or purple. 



1 C. HETEROPHY'LLA (Willd. 1. c.) Q. S. Native of New 

 Spain, gathered by Humboldt and Bonpland, in the Botanic 

 Garden of Mexico. Bonplandia geminiflora, Cav. 1. c. Pers. 

 ench. 1. p. 187. Roem. et Schultes, syst. 4. p. 370. Leaves 

 lanceolate. Corolla an inch long ; with linear segments, red 

 filaments, and yellow anthers. 



Vanout-leated Caldasia. Fl. Ju. Aug. Clt. 1813. PI. 1| 

 foot. 



Cult. This plant requires the treatment of other tender 

 annuals ; that is, the seeds should be sown on a hot-bed, in 

 spring, and the plants, when of sufficient size, should be planted 

 in separate pots, and placed in the greenhouse during summer. 



XII. LCESE'LIA (so named, by Linnaeus, after John Loesel, 

 author of Flora Prussica, 1 654, published at Gottsched, with 

 additions, in 1703.) Lin. gen. 767. Schreb. gen. no. 1029. 

 Gsertn. fruct. 1. p. 295. t. 62. Juss. gen. p. 135. Lam. ill. 

 527- Royena, Houston, in phil. trans. Cantua species, Willd. 

 Hoitzia, Juss. gen. ed. Usteri, p. 152. Cav. icon. 4. p. 44. t. 

 366. H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 3. p. 162. 



LIK. STST. Pentandria, Monogynia. Calyx tubular, dry, 5- 

 cleft (f. 29. a.), with pungent segments, furnished with 5 lanceo- 

 late, pungently mucronate bracteas outside (f. 29. _/.). Co- 

 rolla funnel-shaped (f. 29. 6.), 3 times longer than the calyx; 

 tube a little curved ; limb 5-lobed ; lobes broadly obovate, en- 

 tire. Stamens equal, exserted (f. 29. e.). Capsule trigonal ; cells 

 few-seeded ; valves membranously crustaceous. Seeds com- 

 pressed, nearly orbicular, girded by a very narrow membrane. 

 Albumen sparing. Radicle about equal in length to the cotyle- 

 dons. Stiff, branched shrubs, natives of Mexico ; branches 

 terete, downy or villous. Leaves alternate, ovate or lanceo- 

 late, mucronate, hairy, sharply serrated, reticulately veined, 

 cuneated at the base, on very short petioles. Flowers solitary 

 or twin, axillary, pedicellate, large, showy, scarlet or violaceous. 



1 L. CILIA'TA (Lin. spec. 875.) leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

 acutely serrated ; corymbs many-flowered ; stamens, 4 of which 

 are exserted, and the fifth short, seated on the middle of 

 the segment ; bracteas roundish-ovate, cordate, ciliately toothed. 

 j . G. Native of Vera Cruz. Lam. ill. 527. Gaertn. fruct. 

 1. p. 295. t. 62. f. 3. Stem quadrangular, branched. Flowers 

 yellow. Bracteas imbricated. Cells of capsule 2-seeded. 



CV&iterf-bractead Loeselia. Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 



2 L. COCCIXEA ; leaves nearly 



FIG. 29. 



sessile, ovate ; flowers axillary, 

 solitary, on short peduncles ; 

 bracteas lanceolate, subserrated, 

 veiny, hairy. T? . G. Native 

 of Mexico, plentiful near Gua- 

 naxuato, and elsewhere. ; it is 

 also cultivated in the gardens. 

 Hoitzia coccinea, Cav. icon. 4. p. 

 44. t. 365. H. B. et Kunth, nov. 

 gen. amer. 3. p. 162. Hoitzia 

 Mexicana, Lam. diet. 3. p. 134. 

 Cantua Hoitzia, Willd. spec. 1. 

 p. 878. Cantua coccinea, Poir. 

 suppl. 2. p. 80. Bracteas vil- 

 lous. Leaves acutely mucro- 

 nate, cuneated at the base, sca- 

 brous above, and hairy beneath ; 

 serratures mucronately awned. 

 Calycine segments lanceolate-subulate, 1 -nerved. Corollas 

 scarlet, glabrous; segments of the limb obovate, spreading 







