. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. Mr. J. Miers on several genera hitherto placed in Solanacese. 173 figure is given in the margin ; fig. 1 being the corolla viewed sideways; fig. 2, ditto seen in front; fig. 3, ditto seen from above. I have added to this group a new genus^ Pteroglossis, founded upon a plant collected in the north of Chile by Bridges (his No. 1389). In Salpiglossis the two broadly expanded lips of the stigma appear al- most confluent into a tongue-shaped process, while in the other genera they
. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. Mr. J. Miers on several genera hitherto placed in Solanacese. 173 figure is given in the margin ; fig. 1 being the corolla viewed sideways; fig. 2, ditto seen in front; fig. 3, ditto seen from above. I have added to this group a new genus^ Pteroglossis, founded upon a plant collected in the north of Chile by Bridges (his No. 1389). In Salpiglossis the two broadly expanded lips of the stigma appear al- most confluent into a tongue-shaped process, while in the other genera they are more or less distinctly separated and 2-lipped, especially in Leptoglossis and Browallia; but in Pteroglossis one of the lips appears altogether wanting, or reduced to a small pi'ominent gland. 6. Petuniece.—The genera which I have separated from the Solanacece to form this tribe, approach the Salpiglossidece most closely in habit and in the general structure of their flowers and seeds, and moreover partake of their peculiar feature, the great dilatation of their stigma : the broadly expanded lips of this or- gan appear however more or less soldered into a tongue-shaped process, as in Salpiglossis, which singularly embraces the con- nate anthers in Nierembergia^. They diff'er notwithstanding from the Salpiglossidece in the pe- culiar complex aestivation of their corolla: that of Nierembergia, being figured in plate 18 A. fig. 2 of the 'Illustration of South Amer. Plants,^ will require no further explanation : the figure of that of Petunia was omitted in plate 23 of that work, and its description was most obscurely given in 'Lond. Journ. Bot.' v. p. 18 (in a note), owing to several omissions and transposals of words in the hurry of the last moment of the monthly publication of that journal. In order to remedy this omission, a delineation of the aestivation t of Petunia violacea is now given in the margin; fig. 1 being the corolla seen in front; fig. 2, the same viewed side
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