347 



Pistil with the germen cut open to show the situation of 

 the young seeds. Fig. 9, Portion of a leaf, the central 

 part filled with a thread-shaped tough bundle of fibres 

 or vessels : — more or less magnified. 



[TAB. LXXI.] 



JABOROSA CAULESCENS. 



Pentandria Moxogynia. Nat. Ord. Solane;e. 



Gen. Char. Cal. 5-fidus. Co7\ campanulata sen tubulosa. 

 Filamenta brevissima, versus apicem tubi inserta. Bacca 

 bi- (tri- Commerson) -locularis. 



v/' 1. Jaborosa caulescens, (Gill, et Hook.); caulibus pluribus 

 decumbentibus, foliis lyrato-pinnatifidis spinuloso-den- 

 tatis petiolatis, bracteis subulatis verticillatis, corollis cam- 

 panulatis intus hirsutis. (Tab. LXXI.) 



Hab. In convallibus Andium versus Mendozam. Alt. 6400 

 ad 10,000 ped. Gillies. 



Radix longe descendens, subfusiformis, hie illic fibrosa. 

 Caules plurimi, prostrati, teretes, vix ramosi, glaberrimi. 

 Folia longe petiolata, oblonga, lyrato-pinnatifida, nervosa, 

 spinuloso-dentata, glaberrima; radicalia caulinis similia, 

 sed plerumque majora. Pedunculi axillares, solitarii vel 

 bini, uniflori, duas tres uncias longi, erecti, demum 

 fructiferi deflexi, ad basin bracteati, bracteis subulatis, 

 sub-verticillatis, patentibus. Calyx profunde quinquefidus, 

 inferne pubescens, laciniis lanceolatis erectis appressis. 

 Corolla anguste campanulata, tubo mediocri, extus glabra, 

 intus hirsuta, limbo patente, segmentis acutis. Stamina 

 fauce inserta. Filamenta brevissima. Antherfse oblonga^, 

 basi affixae. Germen subrotundum. Stylus brevis. Stig- 

 ma oblongo-capitatum, apice transversim sulcatum. Cap- 

 sula globosa, bilocularis. Iteceptacula dissepimento lon- 

 gitudinaliter affixa. Semina numerosa, nigra. 



