Tab. 4183. 



HABROTHAMNUS fasciculatus. 



Cluster-Lowered Ilabrothamnvs. 



Nat. Ord. Solanace^:. Trib. Cestre/E. — Pentandria Monogynia. 



Gen. Char, HABROTHAMNUS, Meissn. — Calyx campanulatus, 5-dentatus. 

 Corolla hypogyna, clavato-tubiilosa, tubo longo, limbo 5-dentato contracto. 

 Stamina 5, medio corollse tubo inserta, inclusa ; filament a simplicia. Antliera 

 longitudinaliter detuscentes. Ovarium biloculare placentis oblongis dissepimento 

 adnatis, pluriovulatis. Stylus simplex ; stigma capitatum, obsolete bdobum. 

 Bacca calyce cincta bilocularis. Semi, 1a pauea angidata, umbilico ventrali. Em- 

 bryo in axi albuminis carnosi rectus ; cotyledonibus foliaceis ; radicula tereti, 

 ini'era. — Frutices Mexicani, glabri v. subfomentosi-pubescentes, pilis articulatis ; 

 foliis alternis integerrimis ; floribus ituequaliter cymosis ; corollis baccisque rubris. 

 Endl. 



Habrothamnus fasciculatus; fruticosus, ramis junioribus pubescentibus, foliis 

 breviter petiolatis ovatis acuminatis integerrimis pubescentibus penninerviis, 

 floribus terminalibus cymoso-capitatis involucratis, involucri foliobs folia 

 semulantibus sed multo minoribus, calycis segmentis ovatis acuminatis, 

 corolla urceolatim tubulosa basi attenuate ore valde constricta, laciuiis ova- 

 tis acutissimis patentibus ciliatis, staminibus infra medium insertis. 



Habrotiiamnus fasciculatus. Endl. in Bentli. Plant. Hartic. no. 369. TTalp. 

 Repert. Bot. Syst. V. 3. p. 123. JIart/r. in Ilort. Trans, land. N. 8. 3. 

 Tab. 2. lindl. in Bot. Bey. Misc. 184.3. no. 73. 



Meyexia fasciculata. SchlecM. in Linnaa, S.p. 251. 



Habrothamnus elegans. Scheidweil. in Walp. Repert. Bot. Syst. 3. p. 122. et 

 Addend, ejusd. vol am. p. 934. 



H. purpureus. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1841. t. 43. and Miacell. no. 1 9. 



Avery handsome greenhouse shrub, which in its native country 

 (Mexico) bears innumerable closely placed heads or clusters of 

 beautiful red flowers, but of which the sample given exhibits only 

 one such head. This was communicated by Messrs. Lucombe, 

 Pince, and Co., from their Nursery, Exeter ; they imported it, I 

 believe, through Belgium. One has only to look at the figure 

 above quoted in the ' Hort. Society's Transactions' to see how this 

 plant is capable of improvement, and that figure, done from the 

 native dried specimen, is no exaggeration over nature. Hartweg 

 describes it as one of the gayest productions of the Mexican Mora. 

 Our specimen was produced in winter. The generic name is de- 



SEPTEMBER 1ST, 1845. 



