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panular, veined, thin in substance, and widened in the throat ; 
its filaments are short, slender, and inserted in the middle, 
not in the bottom ofthe corolla; the anthers are linear, erect, 
nearly exserted, not oval and reflexed in the middle of the 
tube; its ovarium is deeply imbedded in a large coloured fleshy 
disc, not wholly free, or at least supported on a small 5-lobed 
ring. The stigma is clavate, almost cup-shaped, not deeply sul- 
cated, 2-lobed, and reflexed. "The berry is of a bright scarlet 
colour, not greenish or black. 'The testa of the seed is rugous, 
and covered with rigid hairs, not smooth and reticulated: 
characters offering many well marked points of distinction 
from ropa. There is another remarkable difference be- 
tween Atropa and Salpichroa ; in the one, the corolla is thin, 
becoming membranaceous and unchanged in drying, while 
that of the other is thick and fleshy, becoming black as it 
dries, a character it possesses in common with most of the 
Jaborosa group, such as J'aborosa, Himeranthus, Dorystigma, 
and by Juanulloa, &c. The name is derived from cadmré 
buccinum, xpoa colour, in allusion to its pretty, trumpet- 
shaped flowers, and the following are its generic characters. 
SALPICHROA. Calyz persistens, sæpissimè profunde 5 par- 
titus, lobis linearibus acutis, fructifer haud mutatus, rarius 
5-fidus. Corolla hypogyna, subcarnosa, infundibuliformis, 
interdum tubulosa, fauce subconstricta, limbo 5-fido, lobis 
lineari-oblongis, reflexis, æstivatione ferè induplicatis, mar- 
ginibus floccosis, vix introflexis. Stamina 5, æqualia, sub- 
exserta; filamenta filiformia, glabra, medio corolle orta. 
Anthere lineares, erectæ imo dorsi affixæ, libere, circa 
stylum conniventes, 2-loculares, loculis parallelis adnatis, 
rimá longitudinali dehiscentibus. Ovarium liberum, coni- 
cum, disco carnoso magno colorato suffultum, 2-loculare, 
placentis centralibus, è dissepimento formatis, multiovu- 
latis. Stylus simplex, filiformis, erectus, stamina excedens, 
basi conicus. Stigma subcapitatum, depressum, cavum, 
obsolete 2 lobum. Bacca ovalis, carnosa, 2-locularis, stylo 
apiculata, Semina numerosa, in pulpam nidulantia, rhom- 
boideo-rotundata, valde compressa, testa rugosa, utrinque 
