at the edges. Calyx campanulate, deeply 5-cleft, with
ovate-lanceolate, acute, 3-ribbed segments, the interstices
white and membranous. Corolla bilabiate, about double
the length of the calyx, sparingly glandular, the tube short,
lio-htly compressed, gibbous above, marked inside with 4 or 5
lines of white bristles; upper lip white, 2-lobed, lower
one larger, 3-lobed, lobes rounded, repandly crenulate, the
lateral lobes of the lower lip spreading, of a bright purple,
the middle one concave, keeled, nearly white. Stamens
4, declinate, nearly equal. Filaments white, compressed,
adherent to the tube below, the 2 upper ones bristly for
about half their length. Anthers reniform, dark purple,
the cells confluent at the top. The rudiment of a fifth
stamen, placed between the upper pair, short, yellow,
glanduliform. Ovavium globose, bilocular. Ovula several
in each cell, rounded, peltate, dotted, convex exteriorly.
Style capillary, white, double the length of the calyx,
a minute papillose dot. i t
t h i s gay little flower is another of the Caldornian
discoveries of our lamented friend Mr. Douglas, and was
raised from seeds transmitted by him to the Horticultural
Society in 1833. It is quite hardy, grows weU in common
garden soil, and produces its seeds very freely m the open
border.
Drawn at the Nursery of Messieurs Allen and Rogers
at Battersea, in June last. , , i»/r
The genus was named by Nuttall after the late Mr.
Zaccheus Collins of Philadelphia, the possessor of a rich
herbarium, and a zealous promoter of botanical science in
the United States. D . Don.
1 Upper lip of the Corolla, with a pair of the Stamens, and the rudiment of
thefiifth. 2. Lower lip. 3. Style. 4. Calyx and Capsule.