Salmea
(named in honour of Prince Charles of Salm-Dyck, in Holland, an enthusiastic cultivator of plants). SYN. Hopkirkia. ORD. Compositae. A genus comprising about a dozen species of erect, sarmentose, or climbing, stove shrubs, inhabiting Mexico and the West Indies. Flower-heads white, rather small, discoid; involucre short, turbinate or campanulate, the bracts fewseriate, imbricated; receptacle conical or elongated; achenes laterally compressed; cymes corymbose, forming a pyramidal panicle at the tips of the branches. Leaves opposite, petiolate, entire or toothed. The two species described below are pretty plants, and thrive in a light, rich soil. They may be readily increased by cuttings of the young wood, inserted in sand, under a glass, in heat.
S. hirsuta (hairy). fl.-heads ternately sub-sessile, oblong, in trichotomous corymbs; involucre two or three-seriate. August. l. 3in. to 5in. long, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, denticulate-repand or sub-entire, scabrous-hispidulous above, villous-tomentose beneath. Branches villous-pubescent. Jamaica, 1823. Trailer.
S. scandens (climbing). fl.-heads hemispherical. June. l. ovate, acuminate, sub-entire, glabrous. Stem climbing, and, as well as the branches, smooth towards the apex. h. 6ft. Vera Cruz, 1820. (B. M. 2062.)