Floral Illustrations of the Seasons / Consisting of the Most Beautiful, Hardy and Rare Herbaceous Plants, Cultivated in the Flower Garden

by Margaret Roscoe

Pl. 16.

Plate 25. Salpiglossis picta.
Drawn from Nature by M.R. Engraved by R. Havell Jun^r.

SALPIGLOSSIS Picta.

Painted Salpiglossis.

Class and Order.—Didynamia Angiospermia.

Syn. Salpiglossis Picta. Sweets B. F. G. vol. 3. p. 258.

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Root fibrous, stem erect, branching, lower leaves broadly lanceolate, margins deeply serrate—cauline leaves sessile, linear, acute, margins slightly undulate, becoming smaller as they approach the flower—peduncles long, leafy, flowers terminal—calyx five segments, acute—corolla beautifully pencilled with yellow and purple, funnel shaped, tube long, limb spreading, five segments, emarginate—stamens four, two long and two short—anthers large, yellow—style longer than the stamens—stigma obtuse, whole plant villous.