FABIA'NA IMBRICATA. 
IMBRICATE-LEAVED FABIANA. 
Class. 
PENTANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
SOLANACEiE. 
Native of 
Height 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Raised 
Chili. 
21 inches. 
June. 
Shrub. 
in 1837. 
No. 914. 
The appellation, Fabiana, has been adopted in 
honour of a Spanish botanist of that name. 
This country is indebted to Mr. Cuming for the 
possession of this curious heath-like plant; it was, 
however, previously published in the Flora Peru- 
viana, having been discovered in Western South 
America, by the botanists attached to the Spanish 
survey of that country. 
A newly-discovered hardy or half-hardy heath 
will always be an object of interest; and the 
present plant has so exactly the general appear- 
ance of one, that it is just as desirable. It has all 
the neatness and abundance of flowers of some of 
the best individuals of that genus ; and their habit 
also, though belonging to a rather distant order. 
This novel little shrub has proved tolerably 
hardy, but may require the assistance of a little 
defence against severe frosts. It should have a 
dry situation, and probably sandy peat would suit 
it better than common soil. Cuttings will strike 
root quickly, when treated as those of heaths. A 
plant should be kept in the frame, as a protection 
against loss, by unexpected severity of weather. 
