NIEREMBER'GIA PHGENI'CEA. 
PURPLE NIEREMBERGIA. 
' Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
# 
Natural Order. 
SOLANEJS. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Buenos Ayr. 
6 feet. 
June, Oct. 
Perennial. 
in 1831. 
No. 416. 
Nierembergia, is a term adopted in honour of a 
Spanish jesuit of the name of Neirembergius. Phce- 
nicea, from the Latin, or rather from the Greek, sig- 
nifying purple. This plant has also been called 
Salpiglossis integrifolia, after Dr. Hooker, in Cur- 
tis’s Magazine. 
The name Petunia is now familiar to every one, 
from the general cultivation given to the white - 
flowering species, which we published under No. 
208, as the Petunia nyctaginiflora. Our present 
plant differs from that, principally, in the form of its 
corolla, and the insertion of its stamens. This dis- 
crepancy Mr. Don has very properly thought in- 
sufficient to disconnect it from the genus Petunia. 
However, as Petunia is already separated from Nier- 
embergia for the same reason, it becomes requisite, 
if the two plants in question be considered as of the 
same genus, to unite them under that of Nierember- 
gia. We regret that any occasion should have arisen 
to remove these plants to a new genus, but as it oc- 
curs for the purpose of simplification, we most read- 
ily follow Mr. Don’s arrangement. 
Having disposed of the name, which our friends 
