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SCHIZANTHUS pinnatus. 
Lady Tankerville’s Schizanthus. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. ScROPHULARINE. Cal. divisus, persistens. Cor. 1-petala 
hypogyna, sapids irregularix, estivatione imbricata; decidua. Stam, ple- 
riimque didynama, rard gequalia, quandoque 2. Germ. polyspermum, 2-loc. - 
Stylus 1. Stigma 2-lobum, rard indivisum. Caps. (rarissimé Bacca) 2- 
loc., 2-4-valvis, valvis integris v. 2-fidis, dissepimento y. duplicato ex inflexis 
imarginibus valvarum orto; vel simplici parallels integro, sive contrario bi- 
partibili. Placente centrales, septo adnate, v. demim solute. Sem. nu- 
merosa, albuminosa. 2mbryo inclusus, rectus. tadiculd umbilicum spec- 
tante. os 
Herbe: (quandoque frutices) sepias oppositifolic. Inflorescentia varia. 
Oss. Relatio dissepimenti ad valvulas capsule plurilocularis, sive illud 
contrarium'v. parallelum sit, magni valoris semper facit Ilustr. Jussieu ; et ob 
hance causam Khododendra sua ab Exicis, Pediculares @ Scrophulariis segre- 
gat, genera semper dirimens arcté affinitate juncta ; hec nota tamen que ad 
genera distinguenda, plerumque, nec semper, valet, minime suffictt, dum 
aliis haud comitata ad eorum separationem in ordinibus diversis, ut luculen- 
ter probatum est in pliribus generibus hujus familie, presertim in VERO- 
aoe: cujus ih variis speciebus ntodi fere onines dehiscentie obtinent. Brown 
rod. 1, 433, iy Ey 
: SCHIZANTHUS. Cor. irregularis: labio superiore 5-fido: inferiore 
tripartito. Fila. 2, fertilia. Caps. 2-locularis. Persoon syn. 2. 261. 
S. pinnatus, foliis interrupté pinnatis. Rutz et Pavon fl. peruv. 1. 13. t. 17. 
Schizanthus pinnatus. Persoon syn. 2.261. ; : 
Plania herbacea, villis longioribus glanduld terminatis. Radix jibril- 
losa. Caulis 2-pedalis erectus, pardm ramosus, teres. Rami alterni, con- 
similes. Fol. alterna, brevitér petiolata, interrupte pinnata: foliola sessilia: 
majora laciniato-pinnatifida: minora lanceolata, integra. Flores panicu- 
lati: pedicelli 1-flori, filiformes, bracteolis 2 lanceolatis suffulti. Cor. ce- 
ruleo-violacea: labium superius varieyatum: inferius purpureo-vittatum. 
Fils. stricta villosa. Stigma emarginatum. Caps. bilocularis bivalvis; val- 
vulis bipartitis. Ruiz et Pavon, loc. cit. 
rn yp mer 
‘A genus established by Messrs. Ruiz and Pavon, as- 
sociates in the celebrated journey destined to the in- 
vestigation of the Flora of Chili and Peru. ‘The species — 
before us is figured from the dried plant, in the work 
published by those meritorious naturalists on their return 
from that expedition ; and now from the live plant, which 
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