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SOLANUM decurrens. 
Decurrent-leaved Nightshade. E 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Vat, ord. SotANEm. Jussieu gen. i94. Dio. II. Fructus 
baccatus. 
SoLANEE. Brown prod. 443. . 
Div. I, Corolla limbo sepius plicato. Stamina numero laciniarum, 
Embryo valdê curvatus. SoLANER vere. | Brown loc. ch, 
Subdio, 4. Pericarpium baccatum. Id. eod, loc. 
SOLANUM. Supra vol. 1. fol. 71. 
' Div. Aculeata. 
Sub-div. Corollis b.fidis, baccis calyce aucto et aculeato tectis. Am 
theris equalibus.. . 
S. decurrens, caule fruticoso villoso aculeato, foliis pinnatifidis, laciniis 
acutis, sinuato-dentatis, racemis cymosis lateralibus terminalibusque, 
Dunal solan. 232. n. 195. t. 3. D.; (sub S. Balbisii). , 
Solanum decurrens. Balbis ic. et descr. fasc. 1. 17. €. 1. | 
S. Balbisii. Dunal loc. cit. Poiret, suppl. encyc. Lamarck. 3. 776; 
: (sub Morelle de Baibis.) - : 
S. brancefolium. Jacq. ecl. 14. €. T. ` 
S. sisymbriifolium. Lamarck encyc. 4. 307.1. 83. Illust. gên. 2386, 
Persoon syn. 1. 998. Dunal solan. 939. 
Frutex mod orgyalis, erectus, viscido-hirsutus, aculeatus, ramosus, nau- 
seosd olens. Folia wiscoso-villosa, petiolata, oblonga, semipedalia et ultra, 
sinuato-pinnatifida, ad nervos flavo-aculeata, lobis ateralibus lanceolatis inte- 
ris v. repando-dentatis, summo majore ovato-acuminato, angulato, inciso-lo« 
ato; petioli longi aculeati, semiamplexicaules, subdecurrentes. Racemi las 
terales folio inferis oppositi et terminales, semipedales, multiflori, disticho- 
secundi, ex revolutis arrecto-evolvendi, floribus primariis 2 aut 3 hermaphro= 
ditis fertilibus, ceteris. sterilibus masculis > pedunculi aculeati, hirsutis pe- 
dicelli ebracteati filiformes flore duplo breviores, Cal. herbaceus, utrinque 
viscoso-villosus, extis aculeatus jn flore fertili, stellato-campanulatus, segmentis 
ovato-lanceolatis duplo brevioribus corolla. -Cor. candidissima, micans, subdi» 
aphana, extüs lanuginosa, rotata, sesquiunciam transversa, medio tenüs 5- 
da, laciniis lato-ovatis, breve acuminatis, distinctis sinubus acutis. Stam, 
declinato-conniventia, fer? triplo breviora corolla, equalia; anth. lutea, duplo 
mentis, curvule. Germ; parvulum, ovato-conicum, glanduloso- 
lon iores 4; on M 
villosum as (in sterilibus brevissimus) în Sertilibus (17 ms stamina, 
declinatus, Jliformi-clavatus : stig. continuum viride, ovato-oi ongum, eb a 
dymum, obtusum, pruinosum. (Bacca eroceo-rubens, subovata, 
pari cerasi, Bilocularis, glabra, viscosa, primüm calyce aucto tecta, dein eodem 
reflezo nuda, edulis.) 
A species recently introduced into this country, and not 
recorded in the last Hortus Kewensis; but which appears 
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