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SCHIZANTHUS pinnartus. 
Pinnated-leaved Schizanthus. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA (DIANDRIA, Vahl.) —Nat- Orn. PERSONAT#, 
Brown, Juss. 
GEN. Cuar.—Calyx quinquepartitus. Corolla bilabiata, resup inata ; labio 
superiore quinquepartito, inferiore susie: Stamina quatuor, duo ste+ 
rilia. Capsula bivalvis, bilocularis—Vahl, 
Schizanthus pinnatus, « Rurz et Pav. Fl. Peruv. v. i. p. 13. t. 17."—VaHL, 
Enum. v. i. p. 171.—Bot. Mag. t. 2404. 
Stem annual, green, erect, cylindrical, hairy with glandular pubescence, 
branched, the branches dichotomous. Leaves oblong, more or less deep- 
ly pinnatifid, with the segments oblong, obtuse, entire or again pinnati- 
fid, with a few glandular hairs, dark green. Bracteas to the upper 
flowers two to each pedicel, unequal, subovate, more or less toothed or 
incised. 
Flowers from the axils of the branches solitary, or forming terminal racemes, 
not unfrequently secund. Pedicels about an inch long, slender, erect, 
glanduloso-pilose segments, recurved at the e 
larging and becoming more foliaceous. Corolla bons an inch broad, 
very handsome, 2-lipped- The tube very short : the —— lip very large, 
spreading out into five cuneate segments ; the four lateral ones 
are bifid, their segments acutely mee igi 
base, the rest of a more or less deep purple colour, delicately veined at 
the back ; the upper or central one obloy ; bluntly notched at the 
point, and somewhat toothed and cili at the margin : the palate prer 
minent, yellow with deep purp.e spots, | . Lower lip tripartite, 
with dark violet-colored segments, white at the base; of these the two la- 
teral ones are falcate, plane, slightly ciliated at the inner margin ; the in- 
termediate one obcordate, slig' ay oe its sides Stamens 
four, two fertile, inserted in the 
shorter than it, with the filaments subulate, 
purplish, terminated by an ovate, 2-lobed, dark green 
owish i 
incurved. 
on the lowes. 
at the base, 
the a and forming small white ri 
ovate ; Sigle long, filiform, purple, 
. , green, 0 
yond ie fertile stamens, es Stigma 
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