Tas. 5827. : 
NOLANA (§ SorEMA) LANCEOLATA. 
Lance-leaved Nolana. 
Nat. Ord. Sonanr#.—Pentanpria Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx subcampanulatus, limbo 5-partito. Corolla infundibuli- 
formis, limbo amplo campanulato plicato 5-10-lobo. Stamina 5, corollee tubo 
inserta, inclusa vel exserta. Ovaria plura (3-40), disco hypogyno carnoso in- 
serta, libera, 1-8-locularia, Joculis uniovulatis. Semina in loculis solitaria, reni- 
formia, lenticulari-compressa, basi s¢rophiolo vario instructa. Eméryo filiformis, 
annularis, spiralis, albumine amplo, cotyledonibus semiteretibus incumbentibus ; 
radicula infera.—Herbee prostrate vel suffrutices erecti, Americe meridionalis, 
Convolvuli aut Solanearum facie ; foliis alternis, geminis fasciculatisque integris ; 
pedunculis ertra-arillaribus. De Cand. 
Nowana (§ Sorema) lanceolata ; herbacea prostrata incano-pubescens, caule sub- 
* angulato, foliis geminis lanceolatis semi-amplexicaulibus basi oblique adnatis 
hine decurrentibus, floribus in axillis solitariis speciosis ceruleis. Miers. 
Noxana (Sorema) lanceolata. Choisy, in De Cand. Prodr. 13, p. 12. 
Sorema lanceolata. Miers, in Hook. Lond. Journ. of Bot. (1845) v. 4, p. 493. 
This very charming and as yet very little known annual pro- 
mises to be a great acquisition to our parterres in summer. It 
is a native of Chili, and was detected at Coquimbo by Mr. Cum- 
ing, and distributed by him under the number 856. Very 
recently, seeds have been introduced by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, 
of the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries; and the specimen from 
which our figure is taken was communicated to us from Exeter 
in June, 1862. It is a compact-growing plant, and its large 
brilliant blue flowers (a colour so valuable in our flower-borders), 
with a white eye in the centre, are numerous and striking. These 
flowers are very much larger and handsomer than the well-known 
Nolana paradova (see Bot. Mag. t. 2604), which belongs to the 
same group or section, viz. Sorema. This group was separated 
as a genus by Dr. Lindley, with the character, “ Corolla cam- 
panulata. Ovaria 20, libera, cumulata; Drupe 1-loculares, 1- 
AUGUST Ist, 1862. 
