Refugium Botanicum.} (April, 1870. 
TAB. 208. 
Natural Order SouANACER. 
Tribe SoLANE. 
Genus Hepeciapus (Miers, Hook. Lond. Journ. iv. 321). Calyx brevis, 
5-dentatus, persistens. Corolla tubulosa vel campanulata lobis 
5 patentibus lanceolatis tubo multo brevioribus spe dentibus 
totidem interjectis. Stamina 5, prope basin tubi inserta fila- 
mentis filiformibus, antheris oblongis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. 
Ovarium globosum, glabrum, biloculare, pluriovulatum, placentis 
dissepimento adnatis ; stylus elongatus, filiformis; stigma parvum, 
capitatum. Bacca globosa, calyce persistente suffulta. Semina 
plurima, in pulpa nidulantia. — Dunal in D.C. Prodr. xiii. 468 ; 
Atropa, Auct. ex parte. 
Hi. ventricosus (Baker). Fruticosa, ramis glabris haud volubilibus, 
foliis breviter petiolatis herbaceis subglabris ovatis acutis integris 
vel paullulum sinuato-dentatis, floribus ex axillis nutantibus 
breviter pedunculatis solitariis vel geminatis, calycibus flore ex- 
panso horizontaliter patentibus dentibus lanceolatis recurvatis, 
corollis pallide flavis subzequilongis ac latis ventricoso-campanulatis 
fauce constrictis lobis lanceolatis recurvatis dentibus acutis inter- 
jectis, staminibus et stylo longe exsertis. 
A native of Peru, discovered and sent by Mr. Farris. 
An erect shrub three to four feet high, with copious woody 
ascending glabrous shining green branches, the young ones 
tinged with purple. Leaves shortly stalked, herbaceous, ovate, 
acute, entire or slightly sinuato-dentate, the largest an inch and 
a half to two inches long, the upper surface a bright medium 
ereen, the lower paler, the edge inconspicuously ciliated. [lowers 
one or two together on short drooping peduncles from the axils 
of the leaves. Calyx finely pubescent, obconical at first, spreading 
horizontally when the flower expands, half an inch broad, the 
short lanceolate teeth recurved. Corolla pale yellow, half an 
inch broad and deep, campanulato-ventricose, constricted at the 
throat, the limb with ten recurved lanceolate teeth, the inter- 
mediate ones smaller. Stamens much exserted, the style ulti- 
mately twice the length of the corolla. Fruit a large glabrous 
poisonous berry, the calyx membranous and very persistent. 
This differs from all the species described by Dunal in the 
shape of the corolla. In other respects it 1s nearest H. viridt- 
