Polemontacee—Gilta. 309 
Spanish botanist. The following are the species usually known 
in gardens under this name, and in these the corolla-tube is 
very short, scarcely exceeding the calyx-lobes. 
1. G. capitdéta.—An erect annual from 2 to 3 feet high with 
deeply lobed and dissected sessile leaves and terminal dense 
heads of small blue flowers on long naked peduncles. A native 
of California. 
2. G. tricolor.—A slender glabrous annual about a foot 
high. Leaves bipinnately divided into narrow linear segments. 
Flowers about 8 or 10 lines in diameter, 2 to 4 together at the 
ends of the branches, purple and lilac with a deeper shade in 
the centre. This is a very pretty plant, of which there are 
several varieties in gardens. Also from California. 
3. G. dianthoides, syn. Fénzlia dianthoides.—A dwarf 
tufted branching annual about 6 inches high, with simple 
linear often opposite leaves and solitary terminal rosy lilac 
flowers having 5 dark purple spots around the centre. <A 
native of California. 
The next sub-genus is Leptdsiphon, so named from the 
long slender tube of the corolla. The species are all dwarf 
annuals, rarely exceeding a foot AMID, 
in height, and often not more : * 
than 3 or 4 inches. They are 
charming little subjects, with 
extremely slender stems and 
deeply palmately divided leaves 
with narrow linear segments, and 
terminal corymbose heads of 
brightly coloured flowers.  L. 
Androsiiceus (fig. 173) has rosy 
purple, lilac or white flowers; L. 
densiflorus is a similar plant 
with rather larger pale purple or 
white flowers; DL. litews, small 
yellow or orange-coloured flowers, 
according to the variety ; and L. aN 
‘s 3 o) 
réseus has delicate rose-coloured Fig. 173. Leptosiphon Androsaceus. 
flowers. There are also many (enatyelze,) 
very elegant and beautiful hybrid varieties between the fore- 
going species. 
Leptoddctylon Californicum is a charming little undershrub 
from California, and is well adapted for planting out in early 
