mus. It is hardy enough, in the garden of the Horticultural 
Society, to live out of doors against a south wall, where it 
does not suffer at all in moderate winters; even in the last 
severe one it was not much injured. Notwithstanding the 
dull aspect of both leaves and flowers, it forms a pleasing 
appearance when mixed with other and greener plants. 
It is a native of Brazil, where Sellow found it in the 
fields and woods of the southern provinces, a common shrub, 
growing from 6 to 10 feet high. It is also found in Peru. 
Professor Schlechtendahl considers that this genus, 
strangely enough referred to Lycium, connects Nolana with 
Solanacez, by its drupaceous fruit. But, notwithstanding 
the resemblance between the unpublished shrubby Nolanas 
and certain plants now referred to Lycium, I believe that 
the two genera are really very distinct. The fruit of Gra- 
bowskia, like that of all other Solanacex is dicarpellary, 
with the carpels posterior and anterior; and even in the ano- 
malous plurilocular instances of Datura, and more particu- 
larly of Nicotiana multivalvis and Solanum Lycopersicum, 
the same plan is adhered to in reality, although it is very 
much obscured either by the production of spurious dissepi- 
ments, or by the addition of a whorl of carpels exterior to 
the normal pair. But in Nolana the ovary is constantly 
formed upon a quinary type; an important difference in a 
systematical point of view, 
