1826, and continued blossoming for three months in succession. 
The same gentleman has communicated to us well dried speci- 
mens of the same plant. 
The figure of the flowers of Salpiglossis given in Ruiz 
and Pa VON, differ considerably in the shape of the corolla, and 
in that of the style, from the species here represented ; add to 
which, the corolla is in the S. sinuata, the only species hither- 
to described, said to be scarlet : hence I am led to consider our 
plant distinct. 
Fig. 1. Portion of the corolla, with the stamens. Fig. 2. Portion of a sta- 
men, with the cells of the anther closed. Fig. 3. Ditto, with the cells 
burst. Fig. 4. Calyx. Fig. 5, Pistil. Fig. 6. Section of a germen.— 
All more or less magnified. 
