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1 in. long; the tube of the calyx is 2 lines in length, as 
well as in diameter, having 5 equal, broad, triangular, erect 
lobes, 2 lin. long; the corolla is 1 in. long, broadly campanu- 
late, with 5 rounded lobes. 
Douia, Lindl. 
This genus was proposed by Prof. Lindley for a plant 
brought by Mr. Cuming from Chile, and which I obtained 
many years ago from Dr. Miller, of H.M.S. Dublin, who 
collected it in Concepcion. Although unquestionably be- 
longing to Nolanee, it has more the habit and inflorescence 
of a Fabiana, from the flower of which it is scarcely distin- 
guishable. The following is offered as a more extended 
generic character than that given by its distinguished 
author. 
Doutta Lindl.—Calyz persistens, tubulosus, limbo 5-partito, 
lobis lineari-acuminatis, carnosulis, obtusiusculis. Corolla 
hypogyna, fere hypocrateriformis, tubo ore ampliato, limbo 
ad basin 5-fisso, lobis brevibus rotundatis apice vix mucro- 
nulatis. Stamina 5, inequalia, inclusa, rarius exserta ; 
filamenta erecta, medio corolle inserta, filiformia; anthere 
basifixee, 2-lobe, lobis rotundatis, longitudinaliter dehis- 
centibus. Discus hypogynus, carnosus, substipitatus, mar- 
gine 5-lobo libero gynobasin cingens. Ovaria 8-10, coadu- 
nata, l-ovulata. Stylus centralis, filiformis. Stigma clava- 
tum. Drupe totidem, carnose, demum sicce, vernicose ; 
nux ovalis, 1-6-locularis, basi operculo clausa. Semen ut 
in congeneribus. 
Fruticuli Chilenses, erecti, ramosissimi; ramulis brevibus 
. flecuosis, interdum cottoneo-floccosis ; foliis fasciculatis, 
minimis, spathulatis, carnosulis, pilosis ; floribus parvis, 
solitariis, terminalibus, v. axillaribus. 
1. Dolia vermiculata Lindl. :—ramis niveo-cottoneis ; foliis 
brevissimis, spathulatis, rotundatis, crassis; calycis dentibus 
carnosis, sub-recurvis, tubo corolle multo brevioribus.— 
Chile ad Conceptionem. (Cuming, n. 893, Bridges, n. 1336. 
