Chilopsis
(from cheilos, a lip, and opsis, resemblance; on account of the calyx being furnished with a distinct lip). ORD. Bignoniaceae. A greenhouse evergreen shrub, requiring a compost of peat and fibry loam. Cuttings of half-ripened shoots will root in sand, under a bell glass, in a gentle bottom heat.
C. linearis (narrow-leaved). fl., corolla dark purple, with a tubular base, and a dilated companulate throat; lobes oval-roundish, with curled, crenated edges; racemes terminal, short, dense, tomentose. May. l. alternate, linear, flat, elongated, 3in. to 5in. long, glabrous, coriaceous, attenuated at both ends. h. 10ft. Western North America, 1825. An erect branched shrub.