Tas. 8749. 
PETUNIA INTEGRIFOLIA. 
South America. 
SonanaceaE. Tribe SALPIGLOSSIDAE. 
Petunia, Juss.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 907. 
Petunia integrifolia, Hort. ex Harrison, Floricult. Cab. vol. i. p. 144 (1833) ; 
Schinz & Thellung in Vierteljahrsschr. Nat. Ges. Ziirich, vol. 1x. p. 361 
(1915) ; species P. inflatae, R. E. Fries, valde affinis, sed pedunculis post 
anthesin ‘plus minusve deflexis, floribus capsulis et seminibus paulum 
majoribus differt. 
Herba vel suffrutex diffuse ramosus, fere ubique glanduloso-pubescens ; rami 
graciles, teretes, prostrati, decumbentes vel interdum adscendentes. Folia 
alternata, breviter petiolata, saepius elliptico-lanceolata, interdum ovato- 
lanceolata vel lanceolata, integerrima, apice acuta, basi cuneata, petiolo 
incluso 2°5-8 cm. longa, saepe 4-5 cm. longa, 1°5-8°5 cm. lata. Bracteae 
oppositae, foliis simillimae sed minores. Flores simulanter axillares, 
solitarii, pedunculati. Pedunculi graciles, 1-6°5 saepe 8-4 cm. longi, 
primum adscendentes, post anthesin plus minusve deflexi. Calyx 1°5-38 cm, 
longus, leviter accrescens, subaequaliter 5-partitus; segmenta spathulato- 
linearia vel ligulata, subacuta, 1*2-8 cm. longa, 1 -75-5 mm. lata. Corolla 
primum laete roseo-purpurea, demum pallidior, extra pallide roseo-pur- 
purea, tubo extra purpura suffuso et lineis purpureis notato ; tubus circiter 
2°5 cm. longus, e basi angusta valde ventricosus, apicem versus circiter 
1-2 cm. latus ; limbus leviter 2-labiatus, breviter 5-lobatus; lobi 1°6-1°8 
em. lati, rotundati. Stamina 5, inclusa, quorum 4 didynama, antheris 
per paria conniventibus, quinto minore; filamenta glabra. Ovarium 
ovoideum, vix 8 mm. longum, glabrum, basi disco angusto cireumdatum ; 
stylus glaber, stamina longiora vix aequans ; stigma discoideo-capitatum. 
Capsula ovoidea, apiculata, circiter 8 mm. longa et6mm. lata.— P. phoenicea, 
D. Don, in Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. ser. 2, vol. ii. sub t. 172 (1882); Loud. 
Gard. Mag. vol. ix. p. 707. P. violacea, Lindl. Bot. Reg. vol. xix. t. 1626 
(1883) ; Paxton, Mag. Bot. vol. i. p. 7, cum tab. col.; Rennie, Mag. Bot. & 
Gard. vol. ii. p. 117, t. 35, fig. 8; G. Don, Gen. Syst. vol. iv. p. 468; Miers 
in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. v. p. 185; Sendtner in Mart. Fl. Bras. 
vol. x. p. 172; Dunal in DC. Prodr. vol. xiii. pars 1, p. 578; R. E. Fries 
in K. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl. vol. xlvi. no. 5, p. 58, t. 2, figs. 2-4 & t. 5, 
fig. 8 a-d (1911). P. dichotoma, Sendtner in Mart. Fl. Bras vol. xX. p. 173 
_ (1846) ; Dunal in DC. Prodr. vol. xiii. pars 1, p. 576. Salpiglossis integri- 
folia, Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 8118 (1831); Lodd. Bot. Cab, t. 1978. 
Nierembergia phoenicea, D. Don in Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. ser. 2, vol. ii. 
sub t. 172 (1882) et t. 193 (1838) ; Harrison, Floricult. Cab. vol. i. p. 144, 
t. 8, fiz. 2. N. punicea, G. Don, Gen. Syst. vol. iv. p. 468 (1887). 
Stimoryne purpurea, Rafin. Fl. Tellur. pars iii. p. 76 (1886). Nicotiana 
integrifolia, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. 2, p. 223 (1898).—S. A. SEAN. 
; The plant figured here under the name of Petunia 
integrifolia (though much better known as P. violacea) 
Jan.-Manrcg, 1918. 
