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COLLÍNSIA bicolor.
Two-coloured Collinsia.
Linnean Class and Order. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.
Natural Order. SCROPHULARINEiE. Trib. 3. G r a tio le « . Don m
edinb. phil. journ. Ju ly , 1835, p. M l. .
COLLINSIA. Calyx 5-fidus, subtequalis. Corolla bilabiata, subpersonata :
tubo supernè gibboso; labio superiore erecto, bifido; inferiore trifido,
lacinia intermedià cucullatà subtùs carinatà stamina includenti. Stamina 4
fertilia didynama, declinata ; quinti rudimento brevissimo, glanduliformi.
Anthera biloculares : loculis apice confluentibus. Ovarium biloculare,
placenta carnosà : ovulis pluribus, peltatis ! Stigma simplex. Capsula
membranacea, semibilocularis, sub-4-valvis, oligosperma. Semina depressa,
rotundata, punctata, suprà convexa, subtùs hilo ampio excavata : testa
coriacea : albumen corneum. Embryo transversus, viridis : cotyledones
plana; : radícula teres, his subaequalis.
Herbae (America; septentrionalis) annua, foliis oppositis indivisis, peduncuhs
unifioris axillaribus verticillatis.
C. bicolor, foliis ovato-lanceolatis subamplexicaulibus dentatis, calycibus pubes-
ccntibus, corollæ laciniis obtusis répandis, filamentis longioribus hispidis.
Collinsia bicolor. Bentham in hort. trans. vol. 1. n. s. p. 480. Lindl. in bot.
reg. t. 1734.
Root fibrous, annual. Stem erect, branched, round,
minutely pubescent, pale green, stained with livid purple,
about a span high. Leaves sessile, ovate-lanceolate, blunt,
with a very short truncate point, 3 or 5-nerved, the margin
toothed and scabrous with rough pubescence, th e . rest
glabrous and shining, paler beneath, often becoming entirely
purple, an inch to 3 inches long, and half an inch to an inch
in breadth, the substance rather fleshy ; lower ones
embracing the stem, and more frequently and deeply
toothed. Flowers axillary, fasciculate, arranged in
whorls. Peduncles short, filiform, copiously pubescent, as
well as the calyx. Bractes lanceolate, pubescent, revolute