inaqualissinue, 3 irnis maximis cornijormibus arcnatis parallelis corolla paido 

 brevioribus : in hermaph. parum incequales, corolla 3-plo fere breviores. 

 Stylus virens 9 arcuato-declinatus, altitudine Jere corolla?* Flos masculus 

 nondicm expansus rejert papilionaceum non apertum* 



The Solanams have recently given occasion to a valuable 

 monograph, in which more than 200 species are displayed : 



South 



a large proportion of which has been supplied 

 America. The author is Monsieur Dunal, a pupil of the 

 celebrated Professor de Candolle. Considerable pains ap- 

 pear to have been bestowed on an analytical arrangement of 

 the species, the best defence we have against an inundation 

 of new generic names. A supplement is announced, and is 

 to contain many more figures than are in the former part. 

 This had been already communicated in manuscript to 

 Monsieur Poiret, who has introduced the substance into a 

 late volume of the supplement to Lamarck's Encyclopedia. 

 We have not, however, been able to discover our plant in 

 any species. It agrees in part with tridynamum ; but the 

 stem in that is described as herbaceous and prickly, and no 

 mention is made of the species being polygamous, nor of 

 any difference between the barren and the fertile calyx. 

 In the last points our plant coincides with polygamum, but 

 there again the barren flowers are not tridynamous, viz.- with 

 three anthers large, the others small. 



Amazoniunt would have ranged under Nycterium, but 

 that s;enus has been reduced to Solanum bv Monsieur Dunal. 

 The species is shrubby, flexuose, dichotomously branched, 

 clothed by a close short pile of stellately pencilled stipitate 

 hairs ; and has not, we believe, exceeded four feet in height 

 with us. Racemes numerous, many-flowered, placed be- 

 tween the leaves, so as to be alternate with these as 

 well as opposite to them ; at first revolute, as in Helio- 

 TBOPIUM. Flowers pointing one way, nearly two inches 

 across, of a bright violet blue, with a yellow 5-rayed star, 

 answering to a tomentose one of as many rays on the out- 

 side : the primary one of each bunch fertile, with a calyx 

 armed with prickles and growing with the germen of 

 the future berry, as that grows : the others barren, and we 

 may observe, that as no offspring is confided to their care, 

 so no arms have been bestowed on them, and they fall 

 when the flower falls. The corolla of both flowers is 

 irregular, but that, of the barren one more conspicuously 

 so, the angles or segments being separated by much deeper 



