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HYOSCYAMUS canariensis. 
Canary EHenhane. 
“PENTANDRIA MONOGYNId. 
Nat. ord. Souanrm. Jussieu gen. 124. — 
Div. I. Fructus capsularis. . 
HYOSCYAMUS. Cal. tubulosus 5-fidus, persistens. Cor. hypogyna, 
infundibuliformis, limbo patente obliqué 5-lobo inaequali. Stam epipetala. 
Stylus unicus: stigma capitatum. Caps. supera (bilocularis) ovata, utrinque 
compressa et sulco exarata, apice circumscissa seu operculata. Herbe ; 
folia floralia sepé geminata; flores solitarit axillares, sepe secundi. Juss. 
Ce 
H. canariensis, suffrutescens ? foliis inferioribus cordato-ovatis, inciso= 
angulatis fine integris, obtusis; floralibus ovatis ellipticisve subintegris, 
Perennis? pilosus. Caulis strictus, teres, pilis albis mollissimis divaricatis 
a: 
hirsutus. Yolia laxé sparsa, divaricata, solitaria, petiolata, pilosa imprimts 
sublits, pubescentiam canam viridissime at subluridé translucentia, ex cordatis 
evadentia ovata, lobulis gradatim obsolescentibus ; floralia sepins integerrima 
acutula, rard gemina, quorum alterum pauld minus, subcollateraliter ap roxi- 
matum, nunquam oppositum.  Racemus terminalis, flexuoso-erectus, foliosus, 
yemotius multiflorus, alternus, distichus: flores avxillares, solitarii, erecti, 
singulatim explicandt, brevissime pedicellatz. Cal. herbaceus, lurido-virens, 
tubuloso-campanulatus, molli-pilosus, segmentis 5 latis, patentibus, muticisy 
4-plo brevioribus tubo. Cor. @ minoribus, subcaduca, fugax, stramineo- 
lutescens funce violaced, parim incequalis, altior latiorque .calyce; limbo 
rotato-paicnte laciniis brevibus, obversis, transverse latioribus, summis 2 ma- 
joribus. Stam. inclusa, declinata. Germ. post casam corollam ex opercule 
suo viridissimo umbonato-rotundoin ore tube calyctnt apparens. 
An unrecorded native of the Canary Islands; recently 
introduced by Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne. The 
seed was a present from Dr. Schmidt, the learned natu- 
ralist, who, with more of his associates, has just fallen 
a victim to the fatigues of the expedition intended to ex- 
plore the Niger. -— mM 
We can scarcely yet venture to speak of the size the 
plant may acquire, nor of its duration. We believe it 
to be suflrutescent and perennial, and that it will never 
exceed a foot and a half in height. It does not seem in- 
clined to produce many branches. The stem is upright, 
round; covered with a long dense pubescence of very soft 
white straight patent hair. Leaves of a deep lurid green, 
loosely scattered, divaricate, petioled, cordate and ovate, 
