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sharper-toothed ; upper ones linear, entire, sessile, thickly-
clothed with glandular hairs. Flowers panicled, terminated
in racemes, and in the axils of the forks. Flower-stems
glandularly glutinose. 5-angular, 5-cleft: segments
obtuse. Corolla tubular, funnel-formed, abruptly attenuated
downwards, of a bright brown, on a yellow ground, becoming
darker by age. Stamens 4, didynamous, two longer than
the other 2, inserted in the tube, where it begins to increase
in size, with a sterile one inserted between the 2 long ones :
filaments hairy below and smooth upwards, the upper part
pale blue: inserted in the back of the anthers, a little above
the base : anthers 2-lobed, lobes opening at the sides for the
ejection of the pollen : pollen golden yellow. Ovarium
smooth, pyramidal. Style smooth, flattened a little below
the stigma, but not toothed as in S. sinuata. Stigma truncate,
transverse. ’
The present plant is a hybrid, between S. picta and
S. purpurea, raised from the seeds of the former by Mr. Cameron,
formerly Gardener to the late Robert Barclay, Esq.
If the seeds of this plant are sown on a hot bed in Spring,
and the plants planted out in the open border about the end
of April, or beginning of May, they will be in full flower in
July; or if the plants are protected from the frost, during
Winter, they will survive ; and in this case they will flower
very early in Spring.
Our figure was taken from a plant that flowered in the
Nursery of Mr. Lee, of Hammersmith.
The generic name is derived from aa\ny%, a tube, and
yXorra, a toiigue ; in allusion to the species having a small
tongue-shaped process, or a sterile filament in the tube.
1. Calyx. 2 . Corolla laid open, shewing the insertion o f the Stamens. 3. Ovai-v
S ty le , and Stigma.