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CHILI. 



[Solanacece. 



Caules erecti, fruticosi, valde ramosi; ramulis filiformibus, flexuosis, lana alba laxa ubique obsitis, foliosis. 

 Folia fasciculata, patentia, liucam sesquilineam longa, linearia, teretia, obtirsissima, carnosa, sublanosa. 

 Flores axillares, solitarii. Pcdunculus axillaris, vix foliorum longitudine. Calyx tubulosus, quinquefidus, 

 laxe lanosus, lineis 5 elevatis notatus, laciniis linearibus obtusis insequalibus. Corolla infundibuliformis, 

 glaber, limbo 5-fido, segmentis oblongo-ovatis, reflexis. Stylus corolla brevior. Stigma oblongo-capitatum. 



Had. Coquimbo. — The young- shoots of this plant are clothed with a lax but abundant wool, and its 

 fasciculated, terete, and fleshy leaves have much the appearance of some species of Portulaca. The fruit 

 we do uot possess. The flowers are truly those of a Fabiana, of which genus only two species had yet been 

 described, F. imbricata of Ruiz and Pavon, and F. thymifolia, St. Hil. PI. Rem. du Bresil, which latter, 

 indeed, is most nearly allied to the present, differing, however, in the absence of the woolly covering to its 

 branches, and in the scattered leaves. A fourth species has, however, been discovered in Chili by Mr. Cruck- 

 shanks, and, we believe, also by Dr. Gillies, which may be thus named and characterised : — F. viscosa ; 

 pubescenti-viscosa, foliis sparsis anguste linearibus patentibus obtusis dorso canaliculars, pedunculis ter- 

 minalibus fructiferis erectis. — Hab. Near Barasca in Chili, where it is called " Pichanilla." Mr. Cruck- 

 shariks. — This also resembles the F. thymifolia of St. Hilaire, but that has the peduncles mostly axillary, 

 and, when in fruit, reflexed, and the corolla has the tube much broader at the base. F. viscosa has been 

 cultivated at the Edinburgh and Glasgow Botanic Gardens, from seeds introduced by Mr. Cruckshanks. We 

 possess the fruit, which is an oblong capsule, in part surrounded by the persistent calyx, 2-valved, the valves 

 with their margins introflexed, so as to form 2 cells, and bifid at the extremity. Receptacle of the seeds 

 central, becoming free from the dissepiments, and split through the middle, entire at the summit. 



2. CE STRUM. Linn. 



1. C. Parqui ; foliis lanceolatis utrinque attenuatis subundulatis sparsis, pedunculis 

 terminalibus corymbosis. — L'Herit. St. v. 1. t. 36. — Parqui. Feuill. Chil. v. 3. t. 32. 

 Hab. Valparaiso. 



3. BRUGMANSIA. Pcrs. 

 ]. B. Candida. Pers. Syn. v. 1. p. 206. — Datura arborea. Willd. — Feuill. Chil. v. 2. 

 t. 46. 



Hab. Conception ; where it is much cultivated. 



4. NICANDRA. Adam. 

 1. N. physalodes. Gcertn. — Feuill. Chil. v. 2. t. 16. 

 Hab. Coquimbo. 



5. SOLANUM. Linn. 



1. S. chenopodoides ; inerme, caule subherbaceo, foliis ovato-oblongis repando-sinuatis 

 subhirsutis junioribus tomentosis. — Lam. Illustr. n. 2340. Roem. et Sch. v. 4. p. 591. 

 Feuill. Chil. v. 2. t. 14. 



Hab. Valparaiso and Conception. — Dr. Gillies finds it on the other side of the Andes, near Mendoza. 



2. S. pinnatum ; inerme, caule herbaceo sulcato, foliis impari-pinnatisectis segmentis 

 decurrentibus, floribus corymbosis terminalibus^ — Caw. Ic. v. 5. p. 23. t. 439. f. 1. 



Hab. Coquimbo. 



3. S. crispum ; inerme fruticosum, foliis ovatis subcordatisque undulato-crispis sub- 

 acuminatis integerrimis, floribus corymbosis terminalibus, calycibus 5-dentatis, staminibus 

 aequalibus. — Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Per. v. 2. p. 31. t. 158. f. a. 



