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FABIANA imbricata. 
Imbricated Fabiana. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. SOLANACER. 
FABIANA. Ruiz & Pavon. Calyx tubulosus semiquinquefidus. Co- 
rolla hypogyna, infundibularis, tubo sensim ampliato, limbo plicato leviter quin- 
quelobo. Stamina 5, imo corolle tubo inserta, inclusa, insequilonga, apice in- 
curva; antheris longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Discus bilobus carnosus. Ova- 
rium biloculare, placentis dissepimento adnatis, multiovulatis ; stylus simplex, 
apice incurvus : stigma obliquum. Capsula calyce persistente inclusa, bilocu- 
laris, septicido-bivalvis, valvis apice bifidis, placentas coadunatas nutantibus, 
Semina plurima, subglobosa. Embryo intra albumen carnosum subperiphericus, 
arcuatus. Suffrutices austro-americani, viscosi v. resinosi; foliis alternis 
sparsis v. imbricatis ; pedunculis sub-axillaribus v. extra-axillaribus, soli- 
tarüs, unifloris. Endlicher genera, no. 3838, paucis mutatis. 
F. imbricata ; foliis squamzeformibus imbricatis obtusis, floribus sessilibus. 
F. imbricata. Fl. Peruv. 11. p. 12. t. 122. 
This pretty little shrub was originally discovered in Chili 
by Dombey, from whose herbarium specimens are now before 
me. It was first published in the Flora Peruviana, having 
been found by the botanists attached to the Spanish survey 
of Western South America, in plains and on the sandy banks 
ofstreams in the same country. Recently it was met with 
plentifully by Mr. Cuming, of whose dried plants 1t 15 
no. 140. 
It forms a small bright green shrub, with the habit of a 
Tamarisk, or rather of a Thuja, and when in flower is loaded 
with snow-white blossoms resembling those of some heath ; 
it may be in fact regarded as a genus of Solanacez with the 
habit of Ericacez. 
It is not easy to deny the justice of the views of Schykofsky 
and Schleiden regarding placentation in such plants as this 
November, 1839. — . Y 
