SALPIGLOS'SIS STRAMPNEA. 
STRAW-COLOURED S A LPI G LOSS IS. 
Class. Order. 
niDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Natural Order. 
SOLANEiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Chile. 
2 feet. 
June, Sep. 
Perennial. 
in 1824. 
No. 333. 
The name, Salpiglossis, is compounded from two 
Greek words, salpigs, a trumpet; and glossa, a 
tongue; said to be given in allusion to its trumpet- 
shaped flower, and tongue-shaped style. We think 
it may, as aptly allude to the style alone, which is 
more clearly trumpet-shaped; and if, by its connec- 
tion with the flower, this be assumed to be a tongue, 
the plant may be called trumpet-tongued. 
The flowers of this genus are all peculiarly beau- 
tiful ; but a rather delicate habit, and deficiency of 
foliage, render them somewhat less showy than are 
some others with far less pretensions. 
Tlie individual plant from which our drawing was 
made, was raised from seeds, sent from Chile. Its 
purple stripes, which are strongly marked on the ex- 
terior of the corolla, are but little seen on its inner 
surface; less so than in some we have examined. 
We recommend it for culture, as a tender annual; 
for though it may sometimes, with protection, be pre- 
served in the open ground as a perennial, it will gen- 
erally be destroyed. It shoidd be forwarded in a 
hot-bed, and transplanted into a rich warm border 
about the latter end of May. 
84 Sweet’s FI. Card. 26‘2. 
