1931 



* PETCNIA intermedia. 



Intermediate Petunia. 



DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



Nat. ord. SolaiNACe.*. 



PET UNI A. Supra, vol. ]9. /<:>/. 16'26. 



P. intermedia ; minute glandulosa, canescens, foliis linearibus obtusis, coroUis 



iiifundibularibus laciniis obtusis. 

 Nierembergia intermedia. Graham in Edinb. N. Phil. Journal, 1832. D. 



Don in Siveet's Fl. Garden, t. 237. 

 Salpiglossis linearis. Hooker Bat. Mar/, t. 3256. 



First published in the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, 

 where it is stated by Professor Graham to have been intro- 

 duced from Buenos Ayres in 1832. 



It is a half-hardy greenhouse herbaceous plant, with gay, 

 changeable, purple and violet flowers, and hoary leaves ; 

 and it does pretty well out of doors in the summer. It can- 

 not, however, be compared in point of beauty with either 

 Petunia violacea, or any of the graceful and delicate Nie- 

 rembergias. It readily multiplies by cuttings. 



I regret being unable to admit this species into either of 

 the genera in which it has been hitherto stationed ; it is 

 certainly no Salpiglossis, on account of its pentaudrous re- 

 gular flowers ; nor will it associate with Nierembergia, with 

 whose slender-tubed corollas it is altogether at variance. 

 Petunia is plainly the genus into which it must enter ; as I 

 think will be obvious, if its characters are attentively com- 

 pared with those of P. violacea. 



* See folio 1626. 



