Salpichroa
(from salpinx, a tube, and chroos, skin; alluding to the form and texture of the flowers). SYNS. Busbeckea, Salpichroma. ORD. Solanaceae. A genus consisting of about ten species of stove or greenhouse herbs, sub-shrubs or shrubs, natives of extra-tropical South America or the Andes. Flowers white or yellow, sometimes 2in. to 3in. long; calyx five-fid or five-parted; corolla long, tubular or urceolate, the lobes five, acute, induplicate-valvate, often short, erect or spreading; stamens affixed above the middle of the tube; pedicels solitary. Leaves entire, rather long-petiolate, often rather small. S. glandulosa, the only species introduced, is a stove shrub, requiring culture similar to Juanulloa (which see).
S. glandulosa (glandular). fl. yellow; corolla eighteen to nineteen lines long, the throat nearly 1/2in. in diameter; peduncles filiform, nodding at apex. July. l. twin, long-petiolate, cordateovate, seven to eleven lines long, glandular-pubescent, often hoary-tomentose. Stem sub-erect, much branched. h. 2ft. Chili, 1844.