510 CONTRIBUTIONS TO 
coming a nut, a character much at variance with the bilocular 
ovarium with its many seeded placentation on the dissepi- 
ment, which is the constant attribute of Solanacee. Dr. 
Arnott (Linn. 11. 484) who added 2 new species, supported 
the views of Schlechtendahl in assigning it a place among 
Solanacee, on account of its curved embryo, a view also 
maintained by Doctor Lindley, who figured a species in the 
Botanical Register tab. 1985, under the name of G. Boer- 
haavifolium, which I have designated under that of G. Lindley. 
Finally, however, Prof. Endlicher in his Genera Plantarum, 
No. 3745 has again placed it in the albuminous section of 
Ehretiacee, a disposition that can hardly be supported, when 
it is remembered that these have an embryo, either straight, 
or but slightly curved, broad foliaceous cotyledons, and a 
small superior radicle, and that they all possess moreover 
a totally dissimilar habit; Grabowskya, on the other hand, 
has a long, slender, filamentous, and cyclical embryo, with 
semiterete cotyledons, as long as, and even more slender than 
the radicle, which points to the base. My own observations 
lead me to differ somewhat from the views of these distin- 
guished Botanists, and to consider it, as stated in p. 367, rather 
as forming a subtribe of Nolanaceæ, the reasons for which 
will presently be shown. 
Having examined both G. duplicata and G. obtusa in my 
last journey across the Cordillera in 1825, I offer the follow- 
ing as an amended character of this genus. 
GnaBOowskYA Schlect.—Ca/yz parvus campanulatus, nune 
5-partitus, nunc subinteger, margine mucronibus 5 subu- 
latis extus instructus. Corolla hypogyna, infundibulifor- 
mis, limbo 5-partito, laciniis patenti-reflexis, æstivatione 
imbricatis. Stamina 5, prope corolle basin inserta, exserta, 
filamentis gracilibus, basi villosis, antheris ovatis, bilobis, 
basi divaricatis, dorso affixis, longitudine dehiscentibus. 
Ovaria 2, adnata, e disco carnoso orta, obovata, singulo 
2-loculare, ovulis in loculis solitariis, erectis, angulo interno 
basali affixis; Stylus simplex. Stigma clavatum, com- 
pressum, sub-bilobum. Drupa baccata, calyce parum aucto 
