mus. It is hardy enough, in the garden of the Horticultural 

 Society, to live out of doors against a south wall, where it 

 does not suffer at all in moderate winters ; even in the last 

 severe one it was not much injured. Notwithstanding the 

 dull aspect of both leaves and flowers, it forms a pleasing 

 appearance when mixed with other and greener plants. 



It is a native of Brazil, where Sellow found it in the 

 fields and woods of the southern provinces, a common shrub, 

 growing from G to 10 feet high. It is also found in Peru. 



Professor Schlechtendahl considers that this genus, 

 strangely enough referred to Lycium, connects Nolana with 

 Solanacese, by its drupaceous fruit. But, notwithstanding 

 the resemblance between the unpublished shrubby Nolanas 

 and certain plants now referred to Lycium, I believe that 

 the two genera are really very distinct. The fruit of Gra- 

 bowskia, like that of all other Solanacese is dicarpellary, 

 with the carpels posterior and anterior ; and even in the ano- 

 malous plurilocnlar instances of Datura, and more particu- 

 larly of Nicotiana multivalvis and Solanum Lycopersicum, 

 the same plan is adhered to in reality, although it is very 

 much obscured either by the production of spurious dissepi- 

 ments, or I)y the addition of a wliorl of carpels exterior to 

 the normal pair. But in Nolana the ovary is constantly 

 formed upon a quinary type ; an important difference in a 

 systematical point of view. 



