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ANGELONIA SALICARI^FOLIA. 
(willow- LEAVED ANGELONIA.) 
CLASS. ORDER. 
DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
SCROPHULARIACE^. 
Generic Character. — Calyx four-parted, nearly equal. Corolla irregular, spreading, two-lipped, with 
a short tube, and arched orifice ; upper lip two-parted, lower much larger, three-parted, with the 
middle segment slipper-shaped at the base. — Loudon's Encyclopcedia of Plants. 
Specific Character. — Plant an evergreen, herbaceous, perennial, from 15 to 30 inches high ; dividing 
into hranches immediately above the crown of the root. Branches four-cornered, generally 
upright, sometimes recumbent for the lower half, or thereabout ; leafy only at their upper extremity, 
closely and shortly furred. Leaves opposite, spreading, near, sessile, 1^ to 2 inches long, 6 to 8 
lines broad, shortly furred on both sides, slightly indented at the edges. Flowers violet-coloured, 
axillary, solitary ; peduncles long. Calyx deeply five-cleft, two segments closer than the rest. 
Corolla subbilabiate, bipartite ; lower lip much longer, tripartite, the middle segment larger, and 
enlarged at the base in the form of a slipper, rounded at the end. Stamens four, attached to the 
tube of the corolla ; filaments unequal, shorter than the corolla, slightly bowed, and furred their 
whole length. Anther's two-celled, yellow ; cells divergent, pointed. Germen spherical, pubes- 
cent. Style very short. Stigmas pointed. Capsule spherical, depressed, girded at the base by 
the calyx, which becomes slightly fleshy ; marked from bottom to top on the outside by 4 furrows, 
opening at the upper part into 2 cells ; both valves splitting at the top into 2 parts. Seeds nume- 
rous, small, wedge-shaped, attached to a fleshy receptacle, with a pitted membranous coating. — 
Bot. Reg. 415. 
Perhaps a more ornamental, and consequently a more truly valuable plant has 
not been introduced to our collections for some time than the one here figured ; 
but because it has been known in this country for twenty years, it is now almost 
banished from our stoves, and is rarely seen or met with except in the collections 
of such individuals who do not participate in the general mania for new plants, 
but value them only as they are more or less intrinsically interesting, either in 
general appearance, or the individual or united beauty of their flowers. 
In cultivating this plant, two important particulars relative to its natural 
habits should be kept in view ; first, that it is found growing on dry rocks, and 
consequently will not thrive in a soil that is too retentive of moisture, or which 
