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Browallia (Tropical America is the home)

Tropical America is the home of the half-dozen species included in this genus. To those described on p. 214, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

B. viscosa (viscous). fl., calyx segments lanceolate, acute; corolla with violaceous, obovate, emarginate segments, the largest spotted white at base, the tube whitish, inflated at top; peduncles crowded at the tops of the branches. Summer. l. roundish-ovate, obtuse, hairy, 1in. to 1 1/2in. long. h. 1ft. to 2ft. New Grenada. Half-hardy annual. (R. G. 142.)