THE FLORIST 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL, 



OESTRUM KEGELXI, planch. 



habrothamxus aurantiacus, Reg el. Solaneae § Cestrineoe — Pentandria- 



Monogjnia. 



CHARACT. GENER. — Calyx subcampanulatus, tubuloso-cainpanulatus, 

 poculiformis, cyathipoculiformis, 5- dentatus, 5-fidus ant 5, partitus. Co- 

 rolla tubuloso-infundibuliformis, tubo elongato superne ampliato clavato aut 

 faucem saepe constrictam versus inflato, limbo 5-fido, laciniis membrana 

 plicata parvula junctis, vel 5-partito, laciniis patentibus margine infiexis 

 aut reflexis, aestivatione conduplicativis. Stamina 5, rarissime tota libera, 

 tubo usque ad medium vel ultra adnati, inclusa ; filamenta simplicia vel 

 dente aucta, basi plus minus in tubum decurrentia. Anther ce bilobae, orbi- 

 culares aut obcordatae, dorso medio affixae, minute tuberculatas, longitudi- 

 naliter dehiscentes. Ovarium ovatum vel globosum, breviter stipitatum, 

 stipite disco bypogyno circumdato, biloculare, dissepimento medio placenti- 

 fero, placentis subglobosis, pauciovulatis. Stylus simplex, superne ple- 

 rumque glandulis brevissimis obsitus. Stigma capitatum, subpeltatum, con- 

 cavum aut bilobum, rarius clavatum. Bacca ovata, ovatooblonga aut ob- 

 longo-elliptica, elliptica, aut subglobosa, calyce cincta vel inclusa, bilocu- 

 laris vel dissepimento obliterato placentisque coadunatis unilocularis. Se- 

 mina pauca, compressa, dorso rotundata, facie interna augulata, hilo ven- 

 trali. Embryo in axi albuminis carnosi rectus ; cotyledonibus parvis, folia- 

 ceis, orbiculatis, compressis ; radicula tereti, infera. — Frutices aut arbuscu- 

 lae interdum fastentes, Americas tropicae. Folia solitaria vel rarius gemina- 

 integerrima, breviter petiolata, penninervia ; gemmarum axillarium folia 

 extima evohtta, stipulas mentientia. I lores sospe suaveolentes, racemosi, 

 racemis braceteatis axillaribus elongatis, vel in corymbum,spicam aut fasci- 

 culum contractis, interdum paniculam magnam terminalem eomponentibus. 

 Corollas luteos, rarius viridescenti-albidos, albce, aurantiacce vel rubros, aut 

 purpureas. Baceos nigra? aut violaceos, interdum rufescentes, raro albas. 



CHARACT. SPECIF. — C .(Habrotliamnus) frutescens, ramis crebris pa- 

 tentibus floriferis plerumque nutantibus, sicut petioli calyces foliaque subtus, 

 pube crispa plus minus densa tectis, foliis alternis longiuscule petiolatis pe- 

 tiolis gracilibus saepius tortis limbo ovato acuminato margine leviter re- 

 pando, fasciculis florum in paniculam terminalem foliosam digestis pedi- 

 cellatis v. sessilibus, foliis floralibus 3-4 basi stipatis, floribus sessilibus, caly- 

 cis ad medium 5-fidi laciniis lanceolato-linearibus cuspidatis erectic, corollae 

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