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SCHIZANTHUS PINNATUS HUMILIS. 
(dwarf pinnated schizanthus.) 
class. order. 
DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
SCROPHULARIN^E. 
Generic Character. — Vol. 1, page 5. 
Specific Character. — Root fibrous, annual. Stem much branched, from two to three feet high, round, 
covered with glandular hairs. Leaves alternate, pinnatifid, three inches or more long. Leaflets 
lanceolate, smaller ones entire, larger ones pinnated. Corolla of a bluish lilac colour, upper lip 
tinged with yellow, and spotted with red, lower lip much darker, nearly of a purple colour. 
Variety Humilis. — Stem branched, about a foot high, and covered with hairs. Leaves pinnatifid, less 
than those of the species pinnatus. Leaflets oblong-lanceolate. Calyx in five segments, salver- 
shaped, covered with glandular hairs like the stem. Corolla rich rosy purple. 
This very pretty variety was introduced by Mr. Hugh Cuming-, in 1831, who 
collected seeds of it in Chili. It flowered, for the first time in this country, in the 
Garden of the Comte de Vande, Bayswater, under the management of Mr. Camp- 
bell, who was gardener there, and to whom we are indebted for our present figure, 
which was taken at the Manchester Botanical Garden, where the plant flowered 
beautifully in June last. 
It is a hardy annual, of the most easy culture, flourishing in any kind of light 
soil, and ripening seeds freely. If young plants be raised in August, as recom- 
mended (Vol. 1, page 5), and be preserved in a frame or pit, and turned into the 
borders the following spring, they will make a beautiful show. 
We give a figure of this plant, because although it has been in the country now 
four years, and grows so freely, yet it is by no means common, or so well known as 
it deserves to be. 
