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SALPIGLOSSIS* atropurpiirea. 

 Dark-purple Salpiglossis. 



DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPEBMIA. 



Nat.ord. Scrophularines: Juss. (Introduction to the natural system 

 of Botanij, p. 228.) 



SALPIGLOSSIS. — Calyx 5-partitus, subineequalis. Corolla infundi- 

 buliformis, limbo 5-lobo. Filamentum quintum sterile. Stylus apice 

 dilatatus. Capsula bilocularis, dissepimento valvulis parallelo. — Hooker in 

 bot. mag. 2811. 



S. atropurpurea ; foliis lanceolato-ellipticis convexis sinuatis superioribus 

 integerrimis linearibus, stylo edentulo. — Graham in bot. mag. 2811. 



This beautiful species of a beautiful genus is remarkable 

 for the intense blackish purple colour of its flowers, which, 

 when produced by very vigorous plants, are not unfre- 

 quently much larger than those now represented. But 

 they are sometimes so exceedingly small as to have neither 

 colour nor beauty, being rather in a rudimentary state, 

 as those of the Viola and other genera sometimes are: 

 this deformity is, however, scarcely apparent, except in 

 plants in pots kept in a greenhouse, and flowering in the 

 early months of the year. 



This, like the other species, S. picta and straminea, is a 

 biennial. Its seeds should be sown in the summer, so that 

 the young plants may be well established by the end of 

 autumn. They should then be kept in a good airy green- 

 house during the winter, and afterwards be either shifted 

 into large pots for flowering under glass in the succeeding 

 summer, or transferred to the open ground at the same 

 time, and in the same manner as tender annuals. 



* So named from o-<*A7r<y|, a trumpet, and yxZ<r<rx, a tongue ; " because 

 of the style representing a little trumpet-shaped tongue." 



