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ANGELONIA salicari*efolia. 

 Violet-flowered Angelonia. Angelon, 



DID YN AMI A A NG 1 OS PERM 1 A. 



Nat. ord. Scrophularije. Jussieu gen. 117. Dip. J. Stamina 4 didy- 



naraa. 



Sc rophul a r isiE. Brown prod. 1. 43 S. Sect. II. Stamina * 

 antherifera. 



ANGELONIA. Cal. (parvulus, virens) 5-partUus, subobliquus, ap- 



f»ressus; lac. subaegualibus, 2 approximatis. Cor. irregularis, patens, 2- 

 abiata : tubus brevis ; faux fornicata ; labium superius 2-partitum ; inferius 

 multd majus, 3-partitum, lacinia intermedia ad basin fere" in form am calcei 

 ampttata, deraiim rotundato-plana. Fil». tubb corollse inserta, eo pauld 

 longiora, arcuata, hirsuta, subaequalia : anth<*+ loculis divergentibus acutit. 

 Germ, globosum hirsutum : stylus brevis : stig. acutum. Caps, calyce per- 

 sistente stipata, depresso-globosa, levitdr 4-sulcata, 2-loc, polysperma, 

 apice 2-valvi*, valvulis 2-fidis: sent, numerosa; minuta, subcuneata, »uper- 

 ficie scrobicuiata. Caulis herbaceus'i JoL decussation opposita, serrata t pu~ 



bentias peduncuU axillares, solitarii, J -fioti ; Jructiferi reeurvati. Huiab. et 

 Bonpi. pi. equin. 2. 92. 



Angelonia salicarisefolia. Humb. et Bonpi, pL equin. 2. 92. tab. 108. 

 Angeion. Colonis hispanicis, fide Humb. et Bonpi. 



This very ornamental plant has been recently intro- 

 duced by Mr. Herbert, to whom we are indebted for the 

 drawing, taken by himself from a sample that flowered this 

 summer, for the first time* in the hothouse at Spof- 

 forth. 



The genus was framed by Messrs. Humboldt and Bon- 

 pland, and originates with the present species, observed 

 by those distinguished naturalists in a wild state on the arid 

 rocks of gneiss in the environs of Caraccas, the capital of the 

 South American province of that name. It is known among 

 the inhabitants by the appellation of Angeion, and used me- 

 dicinally for the same purposes as the flowers of the Violet 

 with us. The range of its geographical elevation appears 

 to be between 5 and 600 toises above the level of the sea. 



In natural affinity the genus borders upon Alonsoa; but 

 differs essentially in corolla and fruit. It is confined at 

 present to a single species, not recorded in any general sys- 

 tem of vegetables. 



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