NOLA'NA ATRIPLICIFO'LIA. 
SPINACH-LEAVED NOLANA. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
SOLANACE^. 
Native of 
Height 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Peru. 
4 inches. 
August. 
Annual. 
in 1834. 
No. 692. 
Nolana is a word deduced from the Latin nola, 
a little bell, an appellation which is sufficiently well 
supported by the shape of the flowers of this genus. 
Atriplicifolia, the specific name, is compounded 
from Atriplix, a genus of plants, and folium, a 
leaf, from the resemblance of their foliage. 
An old plant of this genus — the Nolana pros- 
trata, is an annual with which florists of the last 
century were well acquainted. This was succeeded, 
in 1822, by a brighter flowered species — the No- 
lana paradoxa, (see No. 207.) Both may now be 
considered as superseded by the present very 
showy species, whose flowers are larger than either 
of the preceding, and resemble those of the Con- 
volvulus tricolor. 
Seeds of the Nolana atriplicifolia may either be 
sown in pots and forwarded in a hotbed, or they 
may be sown at once, in the borders, in the latter 
part of April. The soil should be rendered light 
and rich by the admixture of leaf-mould, sandy 
peat, or some friable compost ; and if a flower-pot 
be turned over the seeds, when sow n, it will forward 
their vegetation. 
Don’s Syst. Bot. 4, 479. 
