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IOCHROMA tubulosa. 
Tubular Iochrome. 
>” 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. SOLANACEE. 
IOCHROMA, Bentham. Calyx ovato-tubulosus, subinflatus, 5-den- 
tatus. Corolla tubulosa v. tubo longo infundibuliformis, limbo plicato 5- 
dentato v. 5-fido. Stamina 5, corolla paullo breviora, prope basin tubi 
inserta. Anthere oblongæ loculis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Ovarium 
biloculare placentis a dissepimento (sectione transversali) stipitatis bifidis 
multiovulatis. Stylus apice clavato-capitatus emarginatus v. brevissime bi- 
fidus crassiuscule stigmatosus. Bacca indehiscens calyce inclusa, pulpa tenui. 
Semina numerosa compressa, orbicularia v. reniformia. Æmbryo curvatus ? 
-——Frutices Ecuadorenses, tomentosi v. pubescentes. Folia alterna, petio- 
lata, ovata v. oblonga, integra. Cymwe -paucifloræ, sessiles, v. breviter pedicel- 
late, primum terminales mox laterales. Corollee cyanee, speciosæ.—Bentham 
in litteris. 
I. tubulosa ; foliis ovatis, calyce (4-lineari) corolla 3-4-plo breviore, corolla 
tubulosa brevissime 5-dentata.—Bentham in litteris. 
Habrothamnus cyaneus, Lindl. in Botanical Register, 1844. misc. 68. 
In the opinion of Mr. Bentham the plant now figured, 
which was mentioned in the last volume of this work under 
the name of Habrothamnus cyaneus, is better separated asa 
peculiar genus, to which two other species, also found by 
Mr. Hartweg in Equatorial America, must be added. “ This 
new genus," writes Mr. Bentham, ‘differs from Habro- 
thamnus in the æstivation of the corolla; and as far as I 
can judge from a not quite ripe fruit, in the fruit and seed 
belonging to the tribe of true Solaneæ not to the Cestrinee. 
Mr. Hartweg states that the fruit is pulpy, a sort of berry, 
and not a dry capsule." 
Mr. Hartweg found this plant in the form of a shrub, 
from four to six feet high, growing on the mountains of 
Yangana, near Loxa. It flowered in the Garden of the 
Horticultural Society in August, 1844. 
