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SCROPHULAPJACE.E. 



Castilleja. 



Tribe VIII. RHINANTHEjE. Benth. 

 Corolla 2-lipped : upper lip concave, galeate or linear ; the lower S-cleft. Stamens 4 (rarely 

 2), ascending : anthers 2-celled ; the cells distinct, parallel, often acuminate. Capsule 

 loculicidal ; the valves mostly entire. Seeds with a solid or loose arilliform testa, often 

 winged. 



15. CASTILLEJA. Mutis ; Endl. gen. .'4004. painted-cup. 



EUCHROMA, Nutt. 



[ Named by Mutis after his friend Castillcjo, of whom little is known.] 



Calyx tubular-ventricose, spathe-like, 2 - 4-cleft. Corolla 2-lipped ; the tube compressed : 

 upper lip very long and narrow ; lower short and 3-cleft or 3-toothed. Stamens 4 : cells 

 of the anthers divaricate, unequal. Capsule ovoid, compressed, 2-celled, loculicidal ; the 

 dissepiment bearing the seeds. Seeds with a loose transparent reticulated testa. — Herbs 

 or shrubby plants, with alternate 3 - 5-cleft or entire leaves, of which the floral ones are 

 bract-like and usually colored. Flowers axillary and solitary, or in a terminal spike : corolla 

 greenish or whitish. 



1. Castilleja coccinea, Spreng. Scarlet Painted-cup. Red-robin. 



Leaves and bracts pinnately 3 - 5-cleft , the segments linear and divaricate ; calyx 2-cleft, 

 nearly as long as the corolla , the segments retuse and emarginate — Spreng. syst. 2. p. 775 ; 

 Hook. fl. Bor.-Am. 2. p. 105. Bartsia coccinea, Linn. sp. 2. p. 602 ; Walt.fl. Car. p. 167 ; 

 Miches, fl. 2. p. 17 ; Fnrsh, fl. 2. p. 429 ; Bigel. fl. Bost. (subgen. Castilleja), p. 244. 

 Euchroma coccinea, Nutt. gen. 2. p. 55 ; Ell. sk. 2. p. 132 ; Torr. compend. p. 243 ; Beck, 

 hot. p 270 ; Darlingt. fl. Cest. p. 375. 



Perennial. Stem 8-15 inches high, simple, dull red, pubescent. Leaves sessile, pubes- 

 cent ; the radical ones spatulate-oblong, entire, or toothed at the summit ; the cauline mostly 

 5-cleft : the two lower segments very narrow and divaricate ; upper ones near the summit, 

 and much shorter. Spike composed of alternate closely sessile flowers. Bracts of a bright 

 scarlet color towards the summit, 3-lobed and obtuse, at first nearly concealing the flowers. 

 Calyx long and tubular, thin and membranaceous below ; the lobes slightly retuse and tipped 

 with scarlet. Corolla dull greenish yellow ; the upper lip nearly three times longer than the 

 lower, straight, truncate at the tip, concave and embracing the stamens and style ; the lower 

 with short acute segments. Anthers smooth, at first cohering, finally distinct. Style long 

 and very slender, a little exserted : stigma incurved, somewhat 2-lobed. Capsule enclosed 

 in the calyx, ovoid, acute, compressed. 



Wet meadows ; rather rare. Fl. April - May. Fr. June. 



