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hairs, the floral leaves being linear, narrow, scarcely more 
than 4 lines long. The flowers are axillary, the peduncle 
being 8 lines long, lengthening in fruit to 18 lines: the calyx 
as well as the peduncle is densely covered with short very 
spreading rigid hairs, somewhat glutinous, it is 3 lines long, 
tubular, 10-nerved, and divided half way down into 5 une- 
qual, thickened, linear, obtuse, erect segments ; the corolla is 
of a whitish, sometimes of a yellowish colour, slightly pubes- 
cent outside, 5 lines long, quite infundibuliform, marked 
with 15 longitudinal purplish veins, is enlarged in the mouth, 
and has a very narrow border of 5 short spreading rounded 
lobes: the filaments are dilated, fixed in the middle of the 
tube: the ovarium is oblong and smooth: the style is erect, — 
smooth, as long as the corolla: the stigma is lunulate, or 
deeply reniform, expanded and embracing the anthers within 
its encircling rounded lobes: the capsule is smooth, and of 
the length of the incanescent persistent calyx.* 
This plant, it may be presumed, is widely disseminated, 
for I can discover no difference between the specimens from 
Texas, and those I found in the Pampas of Buenos Ayres, 
either in their inflorescence, their leaves, or their habit, except 
that from the latter place the pubescence is short, rigid, 
widely spreading, and viscid at the tips, while from the 
former, it is longer, soft, adpressed, and quite free from 
glandular viscidity ; but this is not sufficient to constitute a 
specific difference. 
The plant collected at Quillota in Chile and described and 
figured by Colla, (Memorie di Torino, 38, 135, tab. 45), as 
my Petunia viscosa,t is evidently the same species. 
* This species with sectional details is exhibited in Plate 20. 
t The plant enumerated by me under this name (Trav. Chile, 2. 531) is 
that subsequently named by Prof, Graham, Nicotiana (Petunioides) acumi- 
nata, 
