ALS 
ANGELONIA salicarizfolia. 
Fiolet-flowered Angelonia. Angelon. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMLA. ‘ 
Nat. ord. Scropuutanre. Jussieu gen. 117. Div. F. Stamina 4 didy- 
nama. ri 
Scroruunanine. Brown prod. 1.453. Sect. II. Stamina 4 
antherifera. . 
ANGELONIA. Cal. (parvulus, virens) 5-partitus, subobliquus, ap- 
pressus; Jac. subaqualibus, 2 approximatis., Cor. irregularis, patens, 2- 
labiata: tubus brevis; faux fornicata; labium superius 2-partitum; inferidts 
multd majus, 3-partitum, lacinid intermedia ad basin feré in formam calcei 
ampliata, demuin rotundato-plana, _ Fil. tubo corollz inserta, eo pauld 
longiora, arcuata, hirsuta, subaqualia: anthe, loculis divergentibus acutis. 
Germ. globosum hirsutum : stylus brevis: stig. acutum. Caps. calyce per- 
sistente stipata, depresso-globosa, levitér 4-sulcata, 2-loc., polysperma, 
apice 2- valvis, valvulis 2-fidis: sem. numerosa; minuta, subcuneata, super- 
ficie scrobiculata. Caulis herbaceus: fol. decussatim opposita, serrata, pu- 
bentia: peduncult acillares, solitarit, 1-flori ; fructifert recurvati. Humb. et 
Bonpl. pl. equin. 2. 92, 
Angelonia salicaricefolia. Humb, et Bonpl. pl. equin. 2. 92. tab. 108. 
Angelon. Colonis hispanicis, fide Humb. et Bonpl. 
ae a 
This very ornamental plant has been recently intro- 
duced by Mr. Herbert, to whom we are indebted for the 
drawing, taken by himself from a sample that flowered this 
summer, for the first time, in the hothouse at Spof- 
forth. > 
The genus was framed by Messrs. Humboldt and Bon- 
pland, and originates with the present species, observed 
by those distinguished naturalists in a wild state on the arid 
rocks of gneiss in the enviroris of Caraccas, the capital of the 
South American province of that name. It is known among 
the inhabitants by the appellation of dngelon, and used me- 
dicinally for the same purposes as the flowers of the Violet 
with us. ‘The range of its geographical elevation appears 
to be between 5 and 600 toises above the level of the sea. 
In natural affinity the genus borders upon Atonsoa; but 
differs essentially in corolla and fruit. It is confined at 
resent to a single species, not recorded in any general sys- 
tent of vegetables. 
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