buliform : the tube dark bluish-purple,, hairy, and glandular, 

 the limb nearly equal, oblique, five-lobed, the lobes rounded 

 entire, obtuse, of a rich crimson purple. Stamens five, in- 

 cluded, four didynamous, the central one antheriferous. 

 Filaments quite glabrous, purplish. Anthers blue, two- 

 lobed, the lobes at first approximate, opening at the outer 

 margins, at length spreading. Germen, small, ovate, green, 

 imbedded in a fleshy yellow gland or ring, with two teeth. 

 Style slender, filiform, green, dilated upwards, and bearing 

 an orbicular green, peltate, flat stigma, marked with a 

 transverse line. Capsule ovate, small, two-celled, two- 

 valved, the valves sometimes bifid at their points. Seeds 

 numerous, attached to a receptacle on each side the disse- 

 piment, oval, approaching to reniform, studded with numer- 

 ous, raised points, arranged in lines. 



This new and most distinct species of Salpiglossis was 

 raised from seeds sent in the autumn of 1830, by Mr. 

 Tweedie of Buenos Ayres, to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, 

 where the young plants, placed in a warm exposure in the 

 open air produced their richly coloured blossoms in July 

 of the following year (1831). It promises to be a most 

 valuable addition to our semi-hardy plants: but whether 

 an annual or otherwise, I am not at present able to say. 

 I have specimens of the same plant sent to me by Mr. 

 James Baird of Buenos Ayres, who gathered them upon 

 the Uraguay *, near the Rio Negro. 



Mr. Don has justly referred the present Genus to Sola- 

 nacejE. It has the same heavy and fetid smell, though not 

 in a very powerful degree, as many others of that family. 



* From the same source, and from the same country, I possess another 

 species of Salpiglossis, which may he thus named and distinguished : 

 S. linearis ; foliis (parvis) linearibus integerrimis glandulosis, paniculis pau- 



cifloris terminalibus Miosis, calyce 5-fido, corolla; lohis integris. Hab. 



Banks of the Uraguay, Mr. James Baird. 



Fig. 1. Root Leaf, nat. size. 2. Flower. 3. Stamen. 4. Anther burst. 

 5. Pistil. 6. Section of the Germen. 7. Summit of the Style and Stigma, 

 o. Capsule. 9. Seed : — more or less magnified. 



