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HABROTHAMNUS FASCICULATUS. Cluster-flowered Habrothamnus.

Nat. Ord. SOLANACEÆ. Trib. CESTREE. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Generic Character HABROTHAMNUS, Meissn.-Calyx campanulatus, 5-dentatus.

Corolla hypogyna, clavato-tubulosa, tubo longo, limbo 5-dentato contracto. Stamina 5, medio corollæ tubo inserta, inclusa; filamenta simplicia. Anthera longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium biloculare placentis oblongis dissepimento adnatis, pluriovulatis. Stylus simplex; stigma capitatum, obsoletè bilobum. Bacca calyce cincta bilocularis. Semina pauca angulata, umbilico ventrali. Em- bryo in axi albuminis carnosi rectus; cotyledonibus foliaceis; radicula tereti, infera. Frutices Mexicani, glabri v. subtomentosi-pubescentes, pilis articulatis; foliis alternis integerrimis; floribus inæqualiter cymosis; corollis baccisque rubris. Endl. rived from aßpos, gay, and báuvos, a shoot, or branch; so named from the beauty of its flowering branches.

Botanical Description A shrub, according to Hartweg, about five feet high,

downy. Branches terete. Leaves alternate, on short thick red petioles, ovato-acuminate, waved, entire, obtuse at the base, pen- ninerved. Flowers in involucrated capitate cymes. Involucral leaves three or four, resembling those of the stem, but much smaller and nearly sessile. Pedicels short, or none. Calyx small, with a short obconical tube and five erect ovate acuminated cili- ated segments. Corolla rather a deep red rose-colour, urceolate, but much elongated and tapering at the base, constricted at the mouth; limb of five spreading, ovate, very acute, ciliated segments. Stamens included. Filaments inserted below the middle of the tube. Anthers short-oblong. Ovary globose, on a fleshy disk, two-celled, few-seeded. Style included. Stigma capitate, some- what two-lobed. Thrifty Whiskers HABROTHAMNUS fasciculatus; fruticosus, ramis junioribus pubescentibus, foliis breviter petiolatis ovatis acuminatis integerrimis pubescentibus penninerviis, floribus terminalibus cymoso-capitatis involucratis, involucri foliolis folia æmulantibus sed multo minoribus, calycis segmentis ovatis acuminatis, corolla urceolatim tubulosa basi attenuata ore valde constricta, laciniis ova- tis acutissimis patentibus ciliatis, staminibus infra medium insertis. HABROTHAMNUS fasciculatus. Endl. in Benth. Plant. Hartw. no. 369. Walp. Repert. Bot. Syst. v. 3. p. 123. Hartw. in Hort. Trans. Lond. N. S. 3. Tab. 2. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. Misc. 1843. no. 73. MEYENIA fasciculata. Schlecht. in Linnæa, 8. p. 251. HABROTHAMNUS elegans. Scheidweil. in Walp. Repert. Bot. Syst. 3. p. 122. et Addend. ejusd. volum. p. 934. H. purpureus. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1844. t. 43. and Miscell. no. 19. A very handsome greenhouse shrub, which in its native country (Mexico) bears innumerable closely placed heads or clusters of beautiful red flowers, but of which the sample given exhibits only one such head. This was communicated by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., from their Nursery, Exeter; they imported it, I believe, through Belgium. One has only to look at the figure above quoted in the Hort. Society's Transactions' to see how this plant is capable of improvement, and that figure, done from the native dried specimen, is no exaggeration over nature. Hartweg describes it as one of the gayest productions of the Mexican Flora. Our specimen was produced in winter. The generic name is de- SEPTEMBER 1ST, 1845. 6 N