Tab. 4192. 

 HEBECLADUS biflorus 



Twin-fowered Hebecladus. 



Nat. Ord. Solane^:. — Pentandria Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. HEBECLADUS, Miers. Cat. brevis, profunde 6-partitus, laci- 

 niis ovatis submembranaceis 1-nerviis venosis, persistens. Corolla infundibub- 

 formis, tubo amplo calyce 2-6-plo longiore, fauce ampbato, bmbo patenti-sinuato, 

 5-lobo, lobis acutis, ssepissime dentibus interjectis, sestivatione basi valde pbcatis. 

 Stamina 5, imo corollas inserta, filamentis filiformibus, glabris, basi dilatatis, an- 

 theris exsertis, cordato-oblongis, adnatis, 2 -lobis, longitudinaliter debiscentibus, 

 polbne albido. Ovarium, subrotundum, glabrum (disco nullo?), 2-locidare, pla- 

 centis dissepimento adnatis, pluri-ovulatis. Stylus simplex, exsertus. Stigma 

 clavato-capitatum, sub2-lobum. Bacca globosa, parva, calyce membranaceo 

 suffulta. Semina plurima in pulpam nidulantia, compressa, reniformia, testa re- 

 ticulata. Embryo intra albumen carnosum hamato-arcuatus, cotyledonibus semi- 

 teretibus, radicula tereti, inferne paulo crassiore, duplo longiori, hilum petente. — ■ 

 Suffrutices America intertropicae ; ramubs subdicltotomis, fiexuosis, teneris ; fobis 

 plerumque geminis, altero vix minori, ovatis, ellipticis vel cordatis, integris, petio- 

 latis. Inflorescentia pedunculo solitario laterali cernuo,floribus 1-2 velplurimis, 

 umbellatis, rubris,jlavis, vel rubro-viridescentibus. Bacca alba, pisi magnitudine. 

 Miers. 



Hebecladus biflorus ; suffruticosus, ramis glabris teretibus, foliis ovatis acutis 

 glabris undulatis saepe angulato-sinuatis superioribus geminatis, pedunculis 

 subbifloris, floribus nutantibus, calyce rotato, limbo patente undulato, co- 

 rolla? tubo conico cybndraceo pubescenti-piloso striate purpureo, bmbi laci- 

 niis cum dentibus intermediis lanceolatis patentibus glabris. 



Hebecladus biflorus. Miers in Hook. Bond. Journ. Bot. v. 4. p. 322. 



Atropa biflora. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Per. et CHI. v. 2. p. 44. tab. 181 b. Spreng. Syst. 

 Veget. v. 1. p. 698. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veg. v. 5. p. 684. Walpers' Repert. 

 Bot. v. 3. p. 103. 



A very pretty Solanaceous plant, with graceful drooping two- 

 coloured blossoms ; a native of the Andes of Peru, about Tarraa, 

 Canta, Culluay, &c, according to Ruiz and Pavon, and collected in 

 the same countries by Mr. Mathews, but only recently introduced 

 in a living state by Mr. Veitch of Exeter, through Mr. William 

 Lobb. It flowered in Mr. Veitch's Nursery in August 1 845, and 

 from a fine specimen kindly communicated by him, the accom- 

 panying figure is taken. It only requires a good greenhouse and 

 may easily be increased by cuttings and probably by seed. The 



NOVEMBER 1ST, 1845. 



