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SCHIZANTHUS pinnatus. 
Pinnated-leaved Schizanthus. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA (DIANDRIA, Fa«.)— Nat. Oed. PERSON ATM, 
Brown, Juss. 
Gen. Char. — Calyx quinquepartitus. Corolla bilabiata, resupinata; labio 
superiore quinquepartito, inferiore tripartito. Stamina quatuor, duo ste- 
rilia. Capsula bivalvis, bilocularis. — Vahl. 
Schizanthus pinnatus, " Ruiz et Pav. Fl Peruv. v. i. p. 13. t. I?."— -Vahl, 
Enum. V. i. p. 17I. — 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, 
afterwards reflexed. Calyx very deeply cleft into five, spathulate, obtuse, 
gianduloso-pilose segments, recurved at the extremity, afterwards en- 
larging and becoming more foliaceous. Corolla about an inch broad, 
very handsome, 2-lipped- The tube very short : the upper lip very large, 
spreading out into five cuneate segments; of these the four lateral ones 
are bifid, their segments acutely notched and suberose, white at their 
base, the rest of a more or less deep purple colour, delicately veined at 
the back ; the upper or central one oblongo-ovate, bluntly notched at the 
])oint, and somewhat toothed and ciliated at the margin : the palate pro- 
minent, yellow with deep purp.e spots, perforated. Lower lip tripartite, 
Avith 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, slightly ciliated, its sides incurved. Stamens 
four, two fertile, inserted in the tube on the lower side of the corolla, 
shorter than it, with the filaments subulate, pubescent at the base, 
purplish, terminated by an ovate, 2-lobed, dark green Anther, with yel- 
lowish pollen ; and two sterile stamens inserted upon the upper side of 
the tube ; their Jilaments shorter than those of the fertile ones, pubescent, 
the Anthers abortive, and forming small white capitate extremities. The 
Gertnen is small, green, ovate ; Style long, filiform, purple, reaching be- 
yond the fertile stamens, glabrous; Stigma small, capitate, whitish, 
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