HABROTHAMNUS FASCICULATUS. 
(Cluster-flowered Habrothamnus.) 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
'Natural Order. 
SOLANACE M. 
sneric Character.— Calyx campanulate, five- 
tc ied. Corolla hypogynous, tubular, and club-shaped, 
tv long, limb five-toothed, contracted at the mouth. 
Sf tens five, inserted about the middle of the tube of 
tl corolla, included; filaments simple. Anthers 
o; ing lengthwise. Ovary two-celled, placenta ob- 
1c , dissepiment adnate, many-seeded. Style simple ; 
st aa capitate, indistinctly two-lobed. 
ecibic Character.— Plant a shrub, growing five 
t< x feet high, downy. Branches round. Leaves pe- 
ti te, alternate, ovate-acuminate, entire, somewhat 
R; y ; petioles short, fleshy, tinged with red. Flowers 
c; Dse, produced at the termination of each branchlet. 
fasciculate. Floral leaves three or four, situated im- 
mediately beneath each fascicle. Calyx small, tubular, 
somewhat coloured, cut into five erect, ovate-acumi- 
nate, fringed segments, or teeth. Corolla three times 
the length of the calyx, of a deep rich crimson colour, 
urceolate, tapering at the base, and contracted at the 
mouth ; limb in five slightly spreading acute teeth. 
Stamens included. Filaments simple, and inserted 
below the middle of the tube. Anthers almost round. 
Ovary round, seated on a shallow fleshy disk. Style 
shorter than the tube. Stigma capitate. 
Synonymes. — Meyenia fasciculata, Schlecht. Habro- 
thamnus elegans, Scheidweiler. Cestrum roseum, Hort. 
This beautiful hardy greenhouse plant is a native of mountain sides in Mexico, 
we it was found growing in company with Gaultlieria nitida , Cobcea stipularis, &c., 
a . formed a shrub of five or six feet high of most surpassing beauty. 
It was introduced from its native country to Belgium, by M. Van Houtte, 
Mseryman, Ghent, about 1839, and from thence it found its way into the Nursery 
(Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., Exeter. It was also received into the Gardens 
0 he Horticultural Society. 
Although a free bloomer, in this country it has hitherto flowered only imper- 
f ly. In its native habitats the flowers are produced in such quantities as to give 
t branches the appearance of a crimson wreath ; and Hartweg describes it in his 
c imunications with the Horticultural Society as one of the gayest plants of the 
1 xican Flora. 
It flowered at Chatsworth this last spring on the conservative wall, where it 
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