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SALPIGLOSSIS STRAMINEA. 
Straw-coloured Salpiglossis. 
- DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.—Nar. Onv. BIGNONIACEE. — 
Gen. Cuar.—Cal. 5-partitus, subinequalis. Cor. infundibuliformis, limbo 
5-lobo. Filam. quintum, sterile. Stylus apice dilatatus. Capsula 2-lo« 
cularis, dissepimento valvis parallelo. _ 
Salpiglossis straminea ; caiade glanduloso, stylo niichtalts 
‘Herbaceous, from a foot and a half to two feet high, panicled above; the 
stem and branches cylindrical, slender, and, as well as the whole, even 
to the outside of the corolla, clothed with glandular and slightly glu- 
tinous pubescence. Leaves remote, linear-oblong, tapering at the 
base into a sort of petiole, the margins sinuato-dentate, the upper~ 
most leaves gradually passing into linear entire bractee. Flowers 
paniculate, each pedicel having a bractez at its base. Calya oblongo-« 
ovate, cut about half-way down into five upright linear-lanceolate 
teeth, and marked with as many elevated, green, glandular, elevated 
lines. Corolla large, handsome, funnel-shaped, straw-coloured, marked 
with several fulvous br anching lines or veins: the limb somewhat ob- 
lique, cut into 5 broad and notched unequal spreading segments, of 
which the upper one is the largest, and the two lowermost ones the 
smallest. Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted near the base of the corolla, 
together with a fifth abortive filament. F%lamenis glandular and white 
below, glabrous, acuminated, and purple above. Anthers large, bluntly 
cordate, of two oval lobes, opening by a fissure above. Pollen yellow. 
Pistil : Germen oblongo-ovate, with a groove on each side, 2-celled, with 
numerous ovules attached to a large fleshy centre receptacle. Style as 
long as the tube of the corolla, green, dilated upwards, and terminating 
in the broad, compressed, grooved, yellow stigma. 
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The seeds of this rare but highly interesting plant were - 
sent to our Botanic Garden from Chili, by ALEXANDER 
CRUICKSHANKS, Esq. in 1825, and they produced flowering 
plants which flourished in the greenhouse in the summer of 
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