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IPOMOPSIS PICTA. 
(painted-flowered IPOMOPSIS.) 
CLASS. ORDER. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
POLEMONIACE7E. 
Generic Character. — See page 27. 
Specific Character. — Stem erect, covered witli fine downy hairiness. Leaves with very narrow divisions 
ending in a fine point, covered with downiness. Flowers growing in clustered panicles. Corolla 
funnel-shaped, rich carmine colour on the outside, tube narrow, limb five-cleft, segments terminating 
in a point, orange red, spotted with carmine, mouth of the tube nearly white. 
Synonyms. — Gilia coronopifolia. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1691. 
Ipomopsis Elegans. — Smith's Exotic Botany. 
This beautiful species is a native of Carolina, from whence it was introduced so 
long since as 1726. It greatly resembles the Ipomopsis Elegans given p. 27, both 
in its delicate slender habit, and carmine coloured flowers, but it may be easily 
distinguished from the elegans by the narrow divisions of the leaves, and by the 
fl owers being somewhat larger. 
This plant is also much easier to cultivate than the elegans , requiring compara- 
tively little trouble. If the seeds be sown in the autumn as recommended p. 27, 
and the plants be treated as hardy green-house plants, they will flower the following 
summer with the greatest freedom, and produce abundance of seeds. 
The plants from which our drawing was taken flowered in August last, in the 
green-house at Chatsworth, and where both this and many other plants of the same 
species still continue (Oct. 22) to be a perfect picture of flowers. 
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