Nolana
(from nola, a little bell; alluding to the shape of the corolla). SYNS. Neudorfia, Sorema, Teganium. ORD. Convolvulaceae. This genus consists of about eight species of hardy, glabrous or pubescent, often diffuse or prostrate herbs, natives of Chili and Peru. Flowers whitish, bluish (or pink ?), in the axils, shortly pedunculate; calyx campanulate; corolla broad, almost funnel-shaped. Leaves solitary or twin, sessile or petiolate, entire, flat, sometimes slightly fleshy. The species are of easy culture in any moderately good garden soil, and in a sunny situation. Seeds should be sown in the open border during April or May. The species best known to cultivation are the following:
N. atriplicifolia (Atriplex-leaved). fl. large; throat white, yellow inside. Summer. l. spathulate; radical ones large. Stems procumbent, rather villous. Peru, 1834. SYN. N. grandiflora. (S. B. F. G. ser. ii. 305.) N. grandiflora (large-flowered). A synonym of N. atriplicifolia. N. lanceolata (lanceolate).* fl. blue, white, green, solitary in the axils. July. l. twin, lanceolate, semi-amplexicaul, obliquely adnate at base. h. 6in. Chili, 1860. (B. M. 5327.
N. para doxa (paradoxical).* fl., corolla campanulately funnel-shaped. Summer. l. ovate, obtuse, pilose. Stem prostrate, hairy. Chili, 1825. (B. R. 865.) N. paradoxa (paradoxical), of Sims. A synonym of N. tenella. N. prostrata (prostrate). fl. pale blue. July. l. ovate-oblong, twin, rhomboid-ovate, entire. Peru, 1761. (B. M. 731.) N. tenella (tender).* fl. pale blue, with a paler eye, on hairy, filiform peduncles. Summer. l. ovate, obtuse at both ends. Stems filiform. Plant clothed with viscid down. Chili, 1824. (B. M. 2604, under name of N. paradoxa.)