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SALPIGLOSSIS straminea.
Straw-coloured Salpiglossis.
Natural Order. S oeau em . Brownprodr. \ . p. 449.
Sect. I I . Corolla non plicata, regularis. Stamina didynama.
Embryo leviter arcuatus. Pericarpium capsulare v. baccatum.
SA L P IG LO S S IS . Calyx ,5-angularis, .5-fidus. Corolla mfundi-
buliformis, limbo 5-lobo. Filamentum quin turn sterili inter stamina
longiora. Stylus apice lingu®formis. Stigma truncatum,
transversum. Capsula ovata, 2-locularis, bivalvis : yalvis bipartibi-
libns. Dissepimentum contrarium, utrinque placentiferum. isemina
numerosissima, erecta, angolata, compressiuscula, truncata, extus
punctis plurimis elevatis scabra; ícsíaduplex; exterior crassiuscula
Crustacea ; interior tenuissime membranacea albumini adnata : albumen
copiosum, carnosum. Embryo teres, curvatus, Imteus. Cotyledones
breves, ovales, obtus®, hinc plan®, indè convex®. Radícula
cylindrica, obtusissima, cotyledonibus duplò longior centripeta.
D . Don Mss.
S. straminea, nndiqne piloso, foliis inferioribus petiolatis lanceolatis
sinuatis : superioribus subsessilibus linearibus mtegerrimis, tlori-
bus paniculato-racemosis.
Salpiglossis straminea. Hooker, exot.flor. t. 229.
Herbaceous. N/ems erect, branched; branches densely
clothed with short viscous hairs. Leares very variable,
hairy on both sides and fringed, the hairs glandular; those
at the root broadly lanceolate or oblong, bluntish, more or
less sinuate, the lobes also bluntish, and sometimes slightly
toothed : lower stem-ones narrower, lanceolate, also more
or less sinuate: the upper ones nearly sessile, linear, and
entire. PeifoZes slightly winged. Pacemes panicled Flowers
rather distant, inodorous, sometimes on long peduncles,
and sometimes nearly sessile. Peduncles terminal and lateral,
one-flowered, thickly clothed with viscous glaifoular
hairs, as is the calyx, and the outside of the corolla. Latyx
5-angular, 5-cleft, the angles acute; segments nearly equal,
or the two upper ones rather longest, keeled, acute. LtwoLa
funnel-form, cream-coloured, the tube slender towards the
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