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PETUNIA NYCTAGINIFLORA VIOLACEA. 
(VIOLET MARVEL OF PERU FLOWERED PETUNIA.) 
CLASS. ORDER. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
SOLANEiE. 
Generic Character. — See vol. 1, page 7. 
Specific Character. — Whole herb dark green, covered with glandular hairs. Root fibrous, perennial. 
Stems round, branched, from three to five feet high. Leaves ovate, soft, clammy, blunt. Flowers 
large, showy, resembling, for length of tube, those of the Marvel of Peru, fragrant, solitary, stalked, 
axillary. Flower stalks clothed with soft hairs, two inches or more long. Calyx deeply parted 
into five spatulate segments. Corolla white, five or six times longer than the Calyx, marked with 
five angles ; tube an inch and a half or two inches long, inside greenish yellow, outside tinged 
slightly with purple, and thickly clothed with soft hairs ; limb large, spreading about two inches 
across, with five rounded lobes. Stamens five, unequal, inserted in the mouth of the tube. Pistil 
one, longer than the stamens. 
Violacea — Stems branching, bluish green, clothed with soft hairs. Leaves betwixt ovate and lanceolate, 
dark green above, lighter beneath ; midrib purple on the under side, the whole leaf covered with soft 
glandular hairs like the stem. Calyx purplish -green, and veined with dark purple. Corolla a rich 
violet purple, intermediate in shape betwixt the P. nyctaginifiora, and P. violacea ; tube from an 
inch and a half to two inches long, bellying after the manner of the violacea, outside the tube clothed 
with soft hairs. Limb spreading, with five rounded lobes. 
Synonym. — Nierembergia Atkinsiana. British Fl. Gard. 268. 
This beautiful variety was raised by us at Chatsworth, and, as we have since 
understood, in several other places about the same time. It was produced by seeds 
of the Petunia nyctaginifiora } which had been impregnated with the pollen of the 
P. violacea (Vol. 1, p. 7). 
It is quite hardy, and a very desirable plant, emitting also a delightful fragrance, 
resembling that of the carnation and pink, as does also the P. nyctaginifiora. It 
is very readily increased by cuttings, and may be treated in every respect like its 
parents. 
Our drawing was made from a plant in the Manchester Botanical Garden, in 
June last. It may be purchased for a moderate price at almost every nursery 
around London, and in many other places. 
