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SCHIZANTHUS EVANSIANUS. 
(mr. Evans's schizanthus.) 
class. order. 
DIANDRIC. MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
SCROPHULARIACE^. 
Generic Character. — Calyx five-parted, nearly equal. Corolla with a narrow, short tuhe, and a four- 
parted, irregular, shnpeless limb, which is plaited in aestivation. Stamens four, the two upper ones 
sterile; filaments altogether adnate ; anthers inserted by the base, two-celled ; cells confluent at 
the apex. Ovary two-celled, seated on a fleshy disk ; stigma compressed, obtuse ; lobes connate. 
Capsules two-celled, many-seeded ; valves bifid. Dissepiment parallel. Placentas two, spongy. 
Seeds cochleate, tubercled. Albumen fleshy. Embryo arched, with a cylindrical obtuse radicle, 
which is twice as long as the cotyledons. — Doit's Gard. and Botany. 
Specific Character. — A seedling plant, with irregularly pinnate leaves, and flowers of which the centre is 
white, and the margins a light pinkish crimson, while the middle lobe of the upper petal has a large 
yellow blotch, which, again, is spotted with dark spots. 
At a period when hybrid, or accidental seedling varieties of various plants are 
becoming multiplied to such an absolutely indefinite extent, and their characters 
so intimately blended that it is almost impossible to distinguish them when placed 
near each other, it behoves those who have any influence in such matters, jealously 
to guard against bestowing a name on varieties that are, either through lack of 
beauty or distinctness, unworthy of it. 
Thoroughly imbued with this impression, we had at first some hesitation in 
applying an appellation to the beautiful object here delineated, because, in the 
foliage and the shape of the flowers, it greatly resembles S. pinnatus. But as we 
have since seen that our subject, whatever may be its actual nature, has been 
perpetuated, year after year, by its own seeds, without varying in any one 
particular, this circumstance certainly entitles it to a name ; and its extreme 
elegance will, we are persuaded, secure for it a position in the majority of 
collections. 
It was raised in 1839 by Mr. Evans, gardener to Mrs. Batty, at New Hall, 
