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tube of the corolla is funnel-shaped, smooth, 6 lines long, the 

 induplicate margins of the lobes being tomentous in aestiva- 

 tion, but afterwards quite smooth. 



Fabiana. 



This genus was first proposed by the authors of the Flora 

 Peruv. for a small sea-side shrub of almost ericaceous habit, 

 with erect terminal solitary flowers. Two other species, 

 likewise of Chilean growth, are enumerated in the Botany 01 

 Beechy's Voyage ; and a fourth is recorded by St. Hilaire, 

 from the southernmost province of Brazil. To these I have 

 now to add a fifth species, which I collected in the Paramillo 

 of Mendoza, in 1825. This genus by most authors has been 

 placed in the sub-tribe Nicotianeee ; Lindley, however, in his 

 Introd. Nat. Syst. p. 296, has arranged it in Cestrinea, I 

 believe, on the authority of Bentham ; I can fully confirm 

 this disposition, for reasons founded on its carpological cha- 

 racters, (ante, p.\ 147). Having seen the typical species, as 

 well as the plant above alluded to, in the living state, and 

 collected it in seed, I am provided with data sufficient 

 to justify the following reformation of its generic features. 

 Fabiana, R. et P. Prod. 22, tab. 34.— Calyx tubulosus, in- 

 eequaliter quinquefidus, lobis linearibus obtusis persistens. 

 Corolla hypogyna, subhypocrateriformis, tubo sensim am- 

 pliato, limbo plicato, reflexo, breviter 5-lobo. Stamina 5, 

 imo corollae inserta, inclusa, ineequilonga, apice incurva, 

 antheris cordato-2-lobis, longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. 

 Ovarium breviter stipitatum, glandulis 2 hypogynis liberis 

 carnosis munitum, multiovulatum, placentis sub-lamellatis 

 dissepimento adnatis. Stylus simplex, apice incrassato- 

 curvatus. Stigma 2-lobum, obliquum, lamellis incrassatis. 

 Capsula calyce stipata, 2-locularis, septicido-2-valvis, valvi- 

 bus apice 2-fidis, margin e utrinque septiferis, introflexis, 

 columna placentari compressa, libera. Semina plurinia, 

 minima, ovata, facie interna angulata, hilo ventrali. ^ 1tl ' 



