28 ROB. E. FRIES, DIE ARTEN DER GATTUNG PETUNIA. 



b) Ramuli foliaque brevissime glanduloso-puberula. Corollse tubus ventri- 



coso-infundibuliformis, longitudine limbum vix sequante vel conspicue 



brevior. Pedicelli fructiferi foliis sustinentibus subduplo brevior. excellens. 



2) Folia minuta, centimetrum haud vel vix attingentia. Tota planta longe 



glanduloso-pilosa. Dusenii. 



1. Petunia axillaris (Lam.) B. S.P. 



Taf. 5, lig. 1 a — c. 



Britton, Sterns and Poggenburg, Prelimin. Catal. p. 38 (1888; (n. v.) - - Britton and Brown, 111. Fl. of 

 N. Un. States, Canada and Brit. Possessions, III, p. 141 (1898). — Macloskie, Flora patagonica in Rep. of the 

 Princeton Univ. Exped. to Patagonia, Vol. 8:2, p. 710 (1903—06). 



Syn.: Nicotiana axillaris Lam. in Tableau Encycl. et méthod., Botanique, Torne 2, p. 7 1793) et in 

 Encycl. méthod., Botanique, Torne 4, p. 480 (1796). — Ö. Kuntze, Rev. gen. plant. III: 2, p. 223 (1898). 



Nicotiana axillaris Lam. a nyctaginiflora 0. K. 1. c. 

 » » » (j propinqua 0. K. 1. c. 



Petunia nyctaginiflora Juss. in Ann. Mus. 2, p. 215, tal). 47, ng. 2 (1803). - - Persoon, Syn. I, p. 218 

 (1805). — Trattinick, Tabul. t. 72 (ex Roem. et Schult.). — Roemer et Schultes, Syst. Veget. 4, p. 324 (1819). 

 — Sprengel, Syst. Veget. I, p. 617 (1825). — Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gärd., New Ser. II, t. 119 (ex Sendtner in Fl. 

 brås.). - - Paxton, Mag. of Bot, 2, t, 173 (ex Walp., Rep. 3, p. 933). - - G. Don, Gen. Hist. of Dichlamyd. 

 Plants. 4, p. 468 (1838). — Walpers, Rep. Bot. Systemat. 3. p. 6 (1844—45). — Miees in Hooker's London 

 Journ. of Bot, 5, p. 184 (1846). — Sendtner in Martius, Fl. brås. X, p. 171 (1846). -- Dunal in DC, Prodr. 

 XIII: 1, p. 573 (1852). — Grisebach, Symb. ad Fl. argentin. p. 242 (1879). 



Nicotiana nyctaginiflora Lehm., Gen. Nicot, Hist,, p. 47 (1818). 



Petunia propinqua Miers in Hooker's London Journ. of Bot, 5, p. 185 1^1846;. — Sendtner in Martius, 

 Fl. brås. X, p. 197 (1846). — Dunal in DC, Prodr. XIII: 1, p. 573 (1852). -- Grisebach. Pl. Lorentz, p. 167 

 '1874) et Symb. ad Fl. argentin. p. 242 (1879). — Lorentz et Xiederlein. Exped. ad Rio Negro. Botanica. p. 

 257 (1881)' 



Herbacea, erecta, dense glutinoso-pilosa ; folia elliptica vel subspathulata, plana; 

 pedicelli foliis longiores, fructiferi stricti, erecti ; calyx campanulatus, laciniis oblongis vel 

 lineari-spatlmlatis, obtusis; corolla maxima, alba, tubo longo, cylindrico ; stigma dilatato- 

 discoideum; capsulce majores. 



Caules crassi, erecti vel basi interdum decumbentes et adscendentes, herbacei vel 

 raro paulo suffrutescentes, ad 5 — 6 dm. alti, pilis c. 1 mm. longis, glanduliferis, mol- 

 libus plus minus dense vestiti; internodia vix 1 cm. longa. Folia erecto-patentia, 

 membranacea, inferiora 2 — 4 cm. longa, 1 — 1,5 cm. lata, forma sat variantia, oblan- 

 ceolata, obovata vel elliptica, apice acuta vel obtusiuscula, basin versus sensim angus- 

 tata, sessilia vel alato-petiolata, floralia multo minora, elliptica vel lanceolata, plus 

 minus amplexicaulia, raro tamen basi angustata, utrinque plus minus dense glutinoso- 

 hirsuta. Pedicelli ut ramuli hirsuti, floriferi 1 — 3 cm. longi, erecti vel erecto-patentes 

 et sursum curvati, fructiferi ad 5 cm. accrescentes. Flores in racemos spurios, se- 

 cundos, foliosos vel subnudos collocati. Calyx plus minus dense glutinoso-hirsutus, 

 tubo basi acuto vel obtusiusculo, tubuloso-campanulato, 4 — 5 mm. longo, laciniis 

 oblongis, apicem versus haud vel vix angustatis vel etiam paulo dilatatis, summo apice 

 rotundatis, insequalibus, 4 — 10 mm. longis. Corolla extus hirsuta, glutinosa, alba, tubo 

 obscuriore, 3,5 — 5 cm. longo, 0,2 — 0,4 cm. diam., subcylindrico, sursum leviter ampliato, 

 subito in limbum infundibuliformi-planum, 2,6—3,5 cm. diam. metientem expanso, 

 lobis deltoideis, obtusis vel apiculatis. Stamina usque ad medium corollini tubi 



