NAT. ORDER. 
Solonacece. 
SALPIGLOSSIS STRAMINEA. PAINTED SALIIGLOSSIS. 
Class XIV. DiDYNAMiA. Order II. Angiospermia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx., five angled, five cleft. Segments, two lobed. 
Stamens, four. Style, tongue-shaped. 
!i'pe. Char. Corolla, cream-colored, veined wdth blue. 
The stem rises from tw^o to three feet high, paniculately branched 
at the top ; the branches dichotomous, forked ; the corolla is large, 
purple or straw-colored, and variegated ; the leaves are alternate ; 
the lower ones petiolate sinuated ; upper ones narrower, entire; the 
calyx is angled, five cleft, funnel-shaped, and gradually widening to 
the top ; the limh is five cleft and plicate ; the segments are two 
lobed ; stamens four in number, two long and two short, with the 
rudiment of a fifth between the two longer ones ; style truncate at 
the apex ; stigma truncate, transverse ; cajjsule ovate, two-celled, 
two-valved, valves bipartible ; seeds erect, angular, a little com- 
pressed, truncate, scabrous from elevated dots ; embryo arched, with 
short oval cotyledons. This family are all annual, or biennial plants, 
and generally clothed with glandular hairs. Natives of Peru and 
Chili. 
Propagation and Culture. A light fresh earth, not too rich, will 
be found to suit this species of plants best. They are all showy 
plants, and succeed best when the seed is sown in the open border 
in the spring. They can, however, be reared in the autumn and 
placed in the hot-house during winter, for spring use. 
Vol. iv.— 68. 
