Ml". J, Miera on the genus liabrotbamnus. 181 



very peculiar habit, easily distinguishable from that of Cestnim, 

 they justify uie in recalling the recommendation suggested, as 

 above quoted, and in reinstating the genus, as proposed by Mr. 

 Bentham, with the following amended character : not having 

 seen the seed, I copy the description of it and the fruit wholly 

 from that of Endlicher. ' Gen. VV 3867. In coming to the 

 above conclusion, it ought to be stated at the same time, that 

 H. tomentosiis, with its small calyx and the paucity and smallness 

 of its bracts, does not sensibly differ in habit from many species 

 of Cestrum, while on the contrary C. bradeatum and C. organense 

 possess the large involucrating bracts that characterize most 

 species of Habroihamnus. As the description and figure given 

 by Kunth, of Cestrum roseum, coiTespond entirely with Habro- 

 ihamnus, I have added it, as another species of this genus, and 

 others may perhaps also be found to belong here. 



Habrothamnus, Benth., (char, emend.). — Calyx tubulosus, co- 



:.-, loratus, 5-dentatus, dentibus acutis. Corolla infundibulifor- 



.1 mis, tubo imo angusto, summo inflato, ore contracto, limbo 



vl brevi, 5-partito, lobis acutis, reflexis, sestivatione impKcativa*. 



,1 Stamina 5, inclusa, ie({nali'a. ; filamenta subulata, infra medium 



-'" tubi inserta, apice subinflexa ; anthera ovatse, 2-lob8e, spiculato- 



rugosse, imo dorsi sine connectivo affixse, utrinque longitudi- 



^^ naliter dehiscentes. Ovarium ovatum, apice urabilicatum, 



yr breviter stipitatum, stipite glandulo annular! instructo et 



cyatho (coroUse reliquo) circumdato, 2-loculare, dissepiment© 



medio placentifero ; ovulis paucis, spermadermis ligulatis 



suspensis. Stylus simplex, apice sub-incrassatus, infundibu- 



laris, ore integro sub-2-lobo. Stigma sphsericum glandulosum, 



subemarginatum, spiculoso-papillosum, medio cavum. Bacca 



calyce persistente cincta, 2-locularis. Semina pauca, angulata, 



umbilico ventrali. Embryo in axi albuminis carnosi rectus ; 



cotyledonibusfo\isiceis,radicula tereti infera. — Frutices Mexicani 



et Ecuadorenses sub-tomcntoso-pubescentes, pilis articulatis ; 



folia alterna, integerrima ; flores ineequaliter cymosi, aut sub- 



fasciculati, bracteis magnis sapius involucrati, calycibus corollis 



baccisgue rubris. 



The species described are the following : — 



1. Habrothamnus fasciculatus, Bth., PI. Hartw. n. 369 ; Trans. 

 Hort. Soc. iii. 1. tab. 1 ; Bot. Mag. tab. 4183. H. elegans, 

 Schweid. H. purpureus, Lindl. Bot. Reg. n. s. 15. tab. 43. 

 Meyenia fasciculata, Schl. Linn. viii. 251. 



* iEstivatio implieativa, nempe lobis singulatim conduplicatis, hoc modo, 

 marginibus sese aeque cum contiguis induplicato-conniventibus, nee ut in 

 Cestro, marginibus solummodo cum contiguis induplicato-valvatis. 



