Grabowskia
(named in honour of Mr. H. Grabowsky, an apothecary, and a botanical author, of Ohlaf, in Silesia, 1792-1842). ORD. Solanaceae. A genus containing four or five species of hardy or half-hardy shrubs, natives of extra-tropical South America. Flowers pale violet. Leaves obovate or oblong, entire. The genus is nearly allied to Lycium (which see for culture).
G. boerhaaviaefolia (Boerhaavia-leaved). fl., corolla pale dull blue, imbricate in aestivation; calyx fleshy, sub-regular, often broadly cleft. April. l. fleshy, glaucous. h. 6ft. Peru, 1780. A singular spiny scrambling shrub, sufficiently hardy to withstand our winters when planted in the open shrubbery border in the South of England, or against a south wall elsewhere. (B. R. 1985.)
G. duplicata (toothed). fl. axillary, fascicled, from the upper leaves; calyx tube short, hemispherical; limb of five spreading ovate-lanceolate segments; corolla greenish-white; tube straight, very hairy within. July. l. alternate, very broadly ovate, or almost orbicular, exceedingly glaucous, waved, entire, slightly attenuated at the base into a moderately short petiole. South Brazil, 1840. half-hardy. (B. M. 3841.)