CasMeia. SCROPHULARIACE -E. .-,7:; 



16. CASTILLEIA, Linn. f. Painted-Cup. 



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

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

 long and condupHcate or carinate-concave upper lip (galea); the lower lip short or 

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

 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 2dobed. Capsule loeulicidally 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 ; must of the Laves alternate, 

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

 n 1I1 .red (red. sometimes whitish or yellowish). Flowers in terminal and simple 

 spikes, without bractlets. — Gray in Am. Jour. Sei. xxxiv. 33 J ; 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 flora] leaves or 

 brai 1 a of most of them are more showy than the flowers, the corolla being commonly yellowish or 

 greenish. 



§ 1. Annual: leaves all entire and liiiear-laia'eolait ; or (lie upper floral sometimes a 



little dilated and ineised ; ea/i/.e narrow, as deeply cleft behind as before and 

 usually more so : all the loiver fioiet rs jin/in/led. 



1. C. affinis, Hook. & Arn. 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 lorn:, yellowish, 

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

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

 as long as the tube. — Hot. Beechej . 154. 



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

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

 flowered form of C. parviflora, i. e. ('. Dougla ii, Benth. 



2. C minor, < ! ray. More slender, a foot or two high, simple or paniculately 

 branching, the pubescence somewhat viscid : Bowers at length 31 ittered in a virgate 



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

 green calyx, ii 1- '.• 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 lcn.'th i.f the tube. — f'. afinix. var. minor. Cray in Boi Mex. Bound. 119, & 

 Am. Jour. Sci. 1. c. 



v.; yet found within the limits of the State, but near by, in Nevada, at Carson Citj 

 and Truckee Valley (Watson) ; also in Arizona, and oast to New Mexico and Nebraska. 



$ 2. Perennial: leaves all narrow: calyx narrow, deeply cleft before, 4-toothed 



behind; th, teeth subulate. 



3. C. linariccfolia, lientli. Glabrous below, more or less woolly-pubescent at 

 summit, 2 to 3 or even 6 feet high, slender, sometimes paniculately branched above: 



I at base, linear, entire, or Mm f the upper and floral ■"■ cleft : 



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

 in inch "i' two long, narrow, Bcarlet or red, as are also the calyx and the lobes "I the 

 bracts; the Id. ate upper lip commonly yellow or yellowish, as long as the tube, 



