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FABIAN A imbricata. 

 Imbricated Fabiana. 



PENTANDRIA M0N0GY!<!1A. 



Nat. ord. Solanace^. 



FABIANA. Ruiz Sf Pavon. Ca/?/x tubulosus semiquinqucfidus. Co- 

 rolla hypogyna, infundibularis, tubo sensim ampliato, limbo plicato leviter quin- 

 quelobo. Stamina 5, imo corollae tubo inserta, inclusa, insequilonga, apice in- 

 curva ; antheris longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Discus bilobus carnosus. Ova- 

 rium biloculare, placentis dissepimento adiiatis, multiovulatis ; stylus simplex, 

 apice incurvus : stigma obliquum. Capsulu calyce persistente inclusa, bilocu- 

 laris, septicido-bivalvis, valvis apice bifidis, placentas coadunatas nutantibus. 

 Semina plurima, subglobosa. Embryo intra albumen carnosum subperiphericus, 



arcuatus. Suffrutices austroamericani, viscosi v. resinosi ; foliis alternis 



sparsis v. imbricatis ; pedunculis sub-axillaribus v. extra-axillaribus, soli- 

 tariis, unifloris. Endlicher genera, no. 3838, paucis mutatis. 



¥. imbricata; foliis squamseformibus imbricatis obtusis, floribus sessilibus, 

 F. imbricata Fl. Peruv. 11. p. 12. t. 122. 



This pretty little shrub was originally discovered in Chili 

 by Doinbey, from whose herbarium specimens are now before 

 me. It was first published in the Flora Peruviana, having 

 been found by the botanists attached to the Spanish survey 

 of Western South America, in plains and on the sandy banks 

 of streams in the same country. Recently it was met with 

 plentifully by Mr. Cuming, of whose dried plants it is 

 no. 140. 



It forms a small bright green shrub, with the habit of a 

 Tamarisk, or rather of a Thuja, and when in flower is loaded 

 with snow-white blossoms resembling those of some heath ; 

 it may be in fact regarded as a genus of Solanacese with the 

 habit of Ericaceae. 



It is not easy to deny the justice of the views of Schykolsky 

 and Schleiden regarding placentation in such plants as this 

 November, 1839. y 



