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CHILODIA SCUTELLARIOIDES. 
(SCUTELLARIA-LIKE CHILODIA.) 
CLASS. ORDER. 
DYDYNAMIA. GYMNOSPERMIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
LABIATE. 
Generic Character. — Calyx campanulate, tube short, with about thirteen streaks, two-lipped ; upper lip 
entire, lower one emarginate ; throat naked internally. Corolla with a large but short tube ; limb 
campanulate, barely two-lipped ; upper lip erect, nearly smooth, emarginate, bifid ; lower one trifid, 
middle lobe largest, bifid or emarginate, all of them smooth and spreading. Stamens four, nearly 
equal, shorter than the tube of the corolla. Filaments glabrous, naked. Anthers two-celled ; 
cells parallel, smooth, naked, not bearded. Styles bifid at the summit, divisions nearly equal, 
crowned with stigmas. 
Specific Character — A shrub with glabrous or pubescent branches. Leaves sessile, scarcely half an 
inch long, linear or lanceolate, acute, quite entire, with subrevolute edges, green on both surfaces, 
glabrous, or finely downy beneath in the young state ; floral leaves exceeding the flowers. Pedicels 
axillary, bibracteate. Calyxes ciliated. Corolla glabrous, exceeding the calyx a little. Don's 
Gard. and Botany. 
A very neat and pretty greenhouse shrub, introduced to this country in 1828, 
seeds of it havng been received at the Royal Gardens at Kew. It is a native of 
New South Wales, and is said to be rarely met with in that colony, being found 
principally in barren forests in the vicinity of the Nepean river. 
The plant of which a drawing is prefixed, is, we believe, the only known 
species of the genus, which was founded by Mr. Brown, and is closely allied to the 
genera Prostranthera and Scutellaria, but differs from them in having the lower 
lip of its calyx emarginate, or more frequently bifid, in the base of the calyx being 
furnished with bractese, and in the anthers being destitute of the spur-like appen- 
dages which are seen in the genus Prostranthera ; though in other respects it 
greatly resembles that genus, particularly the species violacea. 
It requires to be potted in a mixture of light sandy loam and heath soil, with 
the addition of a little white sand, if this is not naturally comprised in either or 
both of the above soils ; and care should be taken to allow it an effective drainage, 
