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SALPIGLOSSIS 1NTEGRIFOLIA. ENTIRE- 

 LEAVED SALPIGLOSSIS. 



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 Class and Order. 



DlDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



( Nat. Ord. — Solane^. Don. ) 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 5-fidus seu 5-partitus, subinaequalis. Cor. infundi- 

 buliformis 5-loba. Filamentum quintum sterile (nunc an- 

 theriferum). Stylus apice dilatatus. Stigma truncatum, 

 transversum. Capsula bi-loeularis, dissepimento valvis 

 parallelo. Semina punctato-scabra. 



Specific Character. 



Salpiglossis integrifolia ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis in petio- 

 lum attenuatis, floribus solitariis axillaribus, calyce 

 profundo 5-partito, corollas lobis integris. 



Descr. Stem herbaceous, six to ten inches high, some- 

 what procumbent at the base, then erect, slightly branched, 

 rounded, every where clothed with glandular hairs. Leaves 

 alternate, rarely opposite, those from near the root almost 

 exactly ovate, the rest approaching to lanceolate or oblong, 

 all, but especially the younger ones, more or less clothed 

 with glandular and rather fetid hairs, rather obtuse at the 

 point, quite entire at the margins, tapering gradually below 

 into a footstalk, which has often, at its base, a purplish 

 tinge. Peduncles principally confined to the uppermost 

 leaves, solitary, about an inch long, glandular, single-flow- 

 ered. Calyx three-fourths of the length of the tube of the 

 corolla, deeply five-partite, the segments linear, increasing 

 in size, after the corolla has fallen away, and inclined up- 

 wards. Corolla more than an inch long, broadly infundi- 



buliform : 



