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CastiUeia. SCROPHULARIACE.E. 573 



16. CASTILLEIA, Linn. f. PAINTED-CUP. 



Calyx tubular, more or less cleft either in front or behind, or both ; the lobes 2 

 and lateral, or 4. Corolla tubular, more or less laterally compressed, especially the 

 long and conduplicate or carinate-concave upper lip (galea) : the lower lip short or 

 minute, always small in comparison with the upper, 3-toothed, 3-carinate or some- 

 what saccate below the short teeth ; the tube usually enclosed in the calyx. 

 Stamens 4, enclosed in the upper lip : anthers 2-celled ; the cells oblong or almost 

 linear, unequal, the outer one fixed by its middle, the inner one smaller and pendu- 

 lous. Style long : stigma capitate, sometimes 2-lobed. Capsule loculicidally 2- 

 valved, the valves bearing the placenta on their middle. Seeds numerous, with a 

 loose and cellular favose coat. Herbs, disposed to turn blackish in drying, perennials 

 and sometimes a little woody at base, or a few annual ; most of the leaves alternate, 

 all sessile, the floral ones or their tips, as well as the calyx-lobes, commonly petaloid- 

 colored (red, sometimes whitish or yellowish). Flowers in terminal and simple 

 spikes, without bractlets. Gray in Am. Jour. Sci. xxxiv. 335 ; Watson, Bot. 

 King Exp. 456. 



A genus of 30 or more species, all American, except one in Northern Asia, the greater part 

 North American west of the Mississippi and in the Andes. The brightly colored floral leaves or 

 bracts of most of them are more showy than the flowers, the corolla being commonly yellowish or 

 greenish. 



1. Annual: leaves all entire and linear-lanceolate; or the upper floral sometimes a 

 little dilated and incised : calyx narrow, as deeply cleft behind as before and 

 usually more so : ail the lower floivers pedicelled. 



1. C. affjflis, Hook. & Am. Pubescent : stem strict and mostly simple, a foot 

 to a yard high : flowers scattered or the upper crowded in the leafy spike, curving : 

 calyx and the upper bracts tinged with red : corolla an inch or more long, yellowish, 

 or the tip reddish, surpassing the calyx ; lower lip very short but protuberant, its 

 callous oblong teeth rather shorter than the keels beneath them, the upper lip almost 

 as long as the tube. Bot. Beechey, 154. 



Moist grounds or along streams, from San Diego to the Sacramento. The plant figured under 

 this name by the late C. A. Meyer, in the Sertum Petrop. ii., is apparently a common large- 

 flowered form of C. parviflora, i. e. C. Douglasii, Benth. 



2. C. minor, Gray. More slender, a foot or two high, simple or paniculately 

 branching, the pubescence somewhat viscid : flowers at length scattered in a virgate 

 leafy spike, straight : upper bracts red-tipped, slender : corolla little exceeding the 

 green calyx, 6 to 9 lines long, yellowish ; its lower lip extremely short and not 

 protuberant, its teeth thin and rounded ; the upper lip rather broad and not half 

 the length of the tube. C. affinis, var. minor, Gray in Bot. Mex. Bound. 119, & 

 Am. Jour. Sci. 1. c. 



Not yet found within the limits of the State, but near by, in Nevada, at Carson City (Anderson) 

 and Truckee Valley ( tFatson) ; also in Arizona, and east to New Mexico and Nebraska. 



2. Perennial: leaves all narrow: calyx narrow, deeply cleft before, ^-toothed 



behind; the teeth subulate. 



3. C. linariaefolia, Benth. Glabrous below, more or less woolly-pubescent at 

 summit, 2 to 3 or even G feet high, slender, sometimes paniculately branched above : 

 leaves not broadened at base, linear, entire, or some of the upper and floral 3-cleft : 

 spike dense, or below loose : flowers soon curved, the lower short-pedicelled : corolla 

 an inch or two long, narrow, scarlet or red, as are also the calyx and the lobes of the 

 bracts ; the falcate upper lip commonly yellow or yellowish, as long as the tube, 



