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tube of the corolla is funnel-shaped, smooth, 6 lines long, the 
induplicate margins of the lobes being tomentous in estiva- 
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. Another species, 
likewise of Chilean growth, is enumerated in the Botany of 
Beechy’s Voyage; and a third is recorded by St. Hilaire, 
from the southernmost province of Brazil. To these I have 
now toadda fourth species, which I collected in the Paramillo 
of Mendoza,in 1825. This genus by most authors has been 
placed in the sub-tribe Nicotianee ; Lindley, however, in his 
Introd. Nat. Syst. p. 296, has arranged it in Cestrinee, 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, 1 am provided with data sufficient 
to justify the following reformation of its generic features. 
Fasiana, R. et P. Prod. 22, tad. 34.— Calyx tubulosus, in- 
sequaliter quinquefidus, lobis linearibus obtusis, persistens. 
Corolla hypogyna, subhypocrateriformis, tubo sensim am- 
pliato, limbo plicato, reflexo, breviter 5-lobo. Stamina 5, 
imo corolle inserta, imclusa, inequilonga, 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, valvis 
apice 2-fidis, margine utrinque septiferis, introflexis, 
columna placentari compressa, libera. Semina plurima, 
minima, ovata, facie interna angulata, hilo ventrali. Hm- 
