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CHILL 
[Solanacece. 
Caules erecti, fruticosi, valde ramosi ; ramulis filiformibus, flexuosis, lana alba laxa ubique obsitis, foliosis. 
Folia fasciculata, patentia, lineam sesquilineam longa, linearia, teretia, obtusissima, carnosa, sublanosa. 
Flores axillares, solitarii. Pedunculus axillaris, vix folionira longitudine. Calyx tubulosus, quinquefidus, 
laxe lanosus, lineis 5 elevatis notatus, laciniis linearibus obtusis insequalibus. Corolla infundibuliformis, 
glaber, limbo 5-fido, segmentis oblougo-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 not possess. The flowers ai’e truly those of a Fahiana, of which genus only two species had yet been 
described, F. irnbricata of Ruiz and Pavon, and F. thymifolia, St. Hil. PI. Rem. du Bresil, which latter, 
indeed, is most nearly allied to the present, difleriug, 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 canaliculatis, pedunculis ter- 
minalibus fructiferis erectis. — Hab. Near Barasca in Chili, where it is called “ Pichanilla.” Mr. Cruck- 
shanlis. — 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 bifld 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 iitrinque attenuatis subundulatis sparsis, pedunculis 
terminalibus corymbosis. — L’ Merit. St. v. 1. t. 36. — Parqui. Feuill. Chit. v. 3. t. 32. 
Hab. Valparaiso. 
3. BRUGMANSIA. Pers. 
1. B. Candida. Pers. Syn. v. \. p. 206. — Datura arborea. Willd. — Feuill. Chil. v. 2. 
t. 46. 
Hab. Conception ; where it is much cultivated. 
L NICANDRA. Adans. 
1. N. physalodes. Gcertn. — Feuill. Chil. v. 2. t. 16. 
Hab. Coquimbo. 
5. SOLANUM. Linn. 
1. S. chenopodoides ; inernnie, caule subherbaceo, foliis ovato-oblongis repando-sinuatis 
subbirsutis junioribus toinentosis. — Lam. Illustr. n. 2340. Roetn. 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. — Cav. 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 
sequalibus. — Ruiz et Pav. FI. Per. t;. 2. jo. 31. t. 158. f. a. 
