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SOLANUM amazoniura. 



New purple shrubby Nightshade. 



PENTANDRIA MOXOGYNU. 



SOLA'S U Ms Cat. 1-phvllus, 4-15-dcntatus Jobatnsve, pefslstens, 

 rap£ post efflorescentiam crescens, Cor. (infera) 1-pctala, rota (a ; tubus 

 bievis; limbus magnus, plicatus, 5-anguIatus lobatusve, internum 4-0-lo- 

 batus, patens, (modi irregularis). Stam. aliquand6 4-C):Jtl. subulata, 

 minima, interduin iuaequalia : auth. oblongue, approximate distantesve, 

 scepius sequales, interduin insequales, apice poris 2 dehiscentes. Stylus 

 fill for mis, rectus v. detlexus, in Jioribusfertilibus lougior Itaminibus, in 

 Ji. sterilibus suba?quans filatuenta : stigma obtusum, siibsimplt-x, aut 



2-3-4-fidum. Hacca subrotunda, ovata, oblonga, glabra, apice puucto 

 notata, <2-:3-5-Ioc. : placenta carnosa, convexa, ant convexo-concava 

 nunc a dissepimento non discreta, nunc ope laminse intermedia* longi- 

 tudiualis dissepimento utrinque ad axern affix* : sem. pl'triuia, subro- 

 tunda, ovata, sa»pius compressa, margine cincta, glabra aut miuatissimd 

 scrobiculata, pulpa molli diaphana. saepissime convoluia. Danal solan. 

 !Jf>. 



Caulis herhaceits aut frutescens, inermis ant aculeatus, aut raro spi- 

 riosus. Folia simplicia, infegra, fobata, decompositaque, alterna, in 

 pturimis geminata, raro ternata. Pedunculi so/itarii aut plures, $irn* 

 pikes aut multijidi, axil lares aut extra-axil lares, oppositijb/ii aut sparn 

 aut terminates. Pedicelli Solani tuberosi sub ftore articulati. Fructus 

 S. esculent! magnus, subo-loC. Huic Jios 6-9-divisus. Dunal, ubi 



tupnL 



Div. Acuhata. 

 Sub-div. Corollis 5-jidis, baccis calyee aucto 8f acufeato tectis. 

 S. amazonium, fruticosuni, polvgamum, tridynamum, tomentosum, sub- 

 aculeatum : foliis oblongo-ovatis, repandis v. sinuato-lobatis ; calycibus 

 bermapbroditis solis aculeatis : flore irregulari, subinaequali. 

 Frutex 3-b-pedalis, erect us, pilis brevibus stipitato-stellatis densis his- 

 pidiusculis canescens. Caulis inermis, teres, Jlexuosus, dichotomo-ramosus. 

 Folia remote alterna, rariiis 2-3 approximata, petiolata, patentia, elongate! 



qfundis 



scepiiis incequalia, a supino vlerionque JL 

 Sf petiolis sparsim acxdeata, longitudine h 



foliis opposito 



multifo 



f ••-«■■- v ----- 



-jtori, erecti,Jii 



evolvendi fac Heliotropiij, disticho-secundi ; nedicem _^ 



breviores. Flos primarius cujusque racemi solus hermaphroditic, uetcri 



irevior, 5-jidus, laciniis In 

 pedicello echinatus, (fruct 



crescens? J ; in mare inermis atque cadens cum corolla. Lor. ampin, l uncias 



fore transversa, sinuato-quinquejida (in masculis plurimum profundius), r/o- 



lacea cum stelld media Jlava radiis externis 5 tomentosis respondente ; lacjnize 



orato4anceolalce, sum mam medium versus obliquatce, infinne 2 subtongiores 



' " * ' " tv*. subsessiles* continue* declinata ; in nuribus 



divaricatiores. Anth. JU 



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