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CACALIA bicolor. 
Bicolor Cacalia, 
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA EQ UALIS. 
Nat. Ord. Corvmetrerm. Jussiew gen. 177. 
CACALIA. Supri:fol. 101. : 
Div. Herbacea. 
C. bicolor, caule herbaceo ramoso, foliis lanceolatis glabris dentatis : 
caulinis (superioribus) amplexicaulibus; rameis (zxferioribus) petio- 
cy latis, Willd: sp. pl. 3.1731. - 
Cacalia bicolor. Roxburgh MSS. corom. cum tab. pict. ined. Salish. 
paradis. 25. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 499. 
Perennis, bipedalis: caulis ramosus, glaber, striatus, fusco-purpurascens, 
rami subvillosi, erecto-patentes, florigert, Folia decrescentia,  glabriuscula, 
subtts fere semper late purpurea; mferiora petiolata, lanceolata, laxits nec 
equalitér inciso-serrata, summa ramis supposita amplexicaulia sublyrato- 
sagittata. Pedunculi caulis ramorumque terminales, rari, distantes, fasti- 
een villosiusculi, striati, untflori, consiti bracteis nonnullis vagis mem- 
ranosis subulatis, summis imo calyci contiguis patentissimis. Flores puniceo 
crocati, fere unciam alti. Cal. cylindricus, oblongus, apicibus purpureis 
acutis. ~Elosculi numerosi, eaxcedentes calycem, subnutanies v. curvati versis 
peripheriam floris, Stigmata divaricato-easerta. Cetera ferme ac in C. 
Ovali folit superioris 101. 
GS 
This fine coloured species, according to Dr. Roxburgh, 
Was received at the botanic garden in Calcutta, from the | 
Moluccas, in 1790; and was introduced by Sir Joseph Banks 
into this country in 1799. 
~ An herbaceous perennial plant, in our specimen about 
two feet high; stem dark-purple, somewhat angular, 
smooth, branched. Leaves scarcely succulent, usually of | 
a fine bright purple at the under side, nearly smooth, or 
with a slight scattered pubescence on the middle nerve; 
lower ones petioled, lanceolate, deeply distantly and un- 
equally serrate; upper stem clasping, lyrately sagittate. 
Flowers between crimson and orange colour, nearly an inch 
long, terminating the stem and branches in a loose few- 
flowered panicle; peduncles distant, striate, somewhat vil- 
lous, growing out into a loosely scattered corymb, beset 
with a few regular distant subulate membranous bractes 
the upper ones of which are patent, and surround the base 
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