MACLOSKIE I SOLANACEyE. 709 



CESTRUM PARQUI L'Her. 



Stems numerous, erect, branching, floriferous. Leaves short-petioled, 

 narrow-lanceolate, acute both ways, subundulate, glabrous ; younger leaves 

 of the axillary buds like stipules. Panicles terminal, erect, leafy and 

 bracted, containing spike-like racemes. 



(In moist parts of Chili; a fetid shrub, the flowers smelling by night; 

 "in south of the Province of Buenos Ayres," J. Ball); probably in N. 

 Patagon. 



7. FABIANA Ruiz & Pav. 



Erect, heath-like shrubs, with small, crowded leaves, and numerous short- 

 pediceledyfowr.?, terminal or oppositifoliose. Calyx-teeth mostly ovate, 

 obtuse. Corolla-tube long, enlarged upwards, its limb short, with indu- 

 plicate-valvate lobes. Anthers short, their lobes dorsally apposed, at 

 length subglobose. Disk fleshy. Stigma dilated. Capsule oblong, 2- 

 celled, each cell 2-valved. Seeds numerous. 



Species 52, Chili and Brazil, and southwards. 



i. F. HIERONYMI Nied. 



Shrub branching from below, the branches thick, flexuose, cylindrical. 

 Yoimg branches yellow-green, granulate (not viscid). Leaves sessile, 

 scaleform, semiorbicular, only half mm. long, glabrous, 3 larger under the 

 calyx. Flowers terminal, solitary, subsessile. Calyx glabrous, persist- 

 ing under the subcylindrical, glabrous capsule. Seeds small, brown. 



N. Patagon. 



2. F. IMBRICATA Ruiz & Pav. 



Short, leafy shrub, with erect branching stem and branchlets. Leaves 

 minute, i mm. long, ovate, sessile, concave, scale-like, thickish, imbricat- 

 ing. Flowers along the branchlets, solitary, sessile. Calyx cup-like, 5- 

 cleft ; its segments obtusish. Corolla-segments short, obtuse, reflexed, 

 white or somewhat violet. Ovary with a red, fleshy, bipartite, basal nectary. 

 Habit of tamarisk. (Fig. in Eng. & Prantl, iv, 3^, p. 31, D, E, F.) 

 (Chili, rocky places and sands by streams) ; Patagon., Chubut. 



3. F. PATAGONICA Speg. 



Denuded, viscous, scarcely subpuberulous. Branchlets erect, straight, 

 terete, remotely subnodulose. Leaves small, narrowly linear, spatulate, 



