480 Report on some remarkable Hardy Ornamental Plants, fyc. 



regularly arranged on each side of the central line of the broad 

 fleshy placenta, and from 8 to 12 of these ovula usually attain 

 maturity in each capsule. 



It is a hardy annual, requiring a rich soil, not damp, and a situa- 

 tion fully exposed to the sun; it must be protected carefully from 

 wet when forming its seeds or they will not ripen ; indeed it pro- 

 duced its seeds in the garden very sparingly, with all the care that 

 could be given to it. 



COLLINSIA BICOLOR. 



C. foliis ovato-lanceolatis basi subcordatis, laciniis calycinis ovatis. 



This is a taller growing and rather more straggling plant than the 

 C. grandiflora, with flowers twice the size. The whole plant is 

 smooth, with a somewhat glaucous appearance. The lower leaves 

 are petiolated, coarsely toothed on the margin and broadly heart- 

 shaped at the base, the upper ones are sessile and entire. They 

 are all obtuse, of a thick consistence, from 1 to 2 inches long. The 

 floral leaves are very small and have in their axillae from 2 to 4 

 flowers on each side of their stalk ; the whole are placed at con- 

 siderable distances from each other, forming long terminal racemes. 

 The peduncles are shorter than the calyx and usually hairy as well 

 as the calyx and the upper part of the flowering stem. The divisions 

 of the calyx are very broad. The corolla? are precisely of the same 

 form as in the C. grandiflora, but twice as large and varying in 

 different shades of rose colour and purple mixed with white. 



Mr. Douglas sent the seeds of this plant under the name of 

 " A new Genus allied to Collinsia." But the form and structure 

 of the flowers and seed-vessels as well as the general habit are so 

 exactly that of Collinsia grandiflora, that the two plants cannot be 

 separated upon the sole distinction of the breadth of the divisions 

 of the calyx. The plants raised last autumn are now flowering 

 abundantly, and it is hoped that there will be seed enough ripened 



