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huts. The flowers are small and white. It certainly looks very 

 unlike any form of the European S. nigrum. 



Distribution. Brazil, common and widely spread. 











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About the village in waste places and at San Jose (Platform 





Island) 



A loose little "branched 



straggling shrub about six feet high, with violet or almost white 

 flowers. 





Distribution. Brazil; common round Pernambuco. 























S. mammosum, var. coBNicuLUM. — S. cornigerum, Andre in Bev. 

 Hort. 1868, p. 33, non Dunal (S. corniculatum in tab.). 

 The true " Jurubeba." This plant occurs in waste places round 



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the village. The fruit is used in liver complaints. The name 

 "Jurubeba" is commonly applied to any Solarium of this group; 

 but this, I was assured, was the correct plant. It is doubtless 

 introduced here. This species seems not to be specifically dis- 

 tinct from S. mamrnosum, which, however, is not hitherto known 

 from Brazil. The form of the fruit, which is rather larger than 

 8. rnammosum, and has an irregular number of processes at the 

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Frutex scandens, caulibus lignosis ferme unciam diametro ; 

 cortex suberosus albescens. Uaini graciles glabri. Folia valde 

 variabilia membranacea nonnunquam integra ovata lanceolata 

 acuta petiolata, circiter 2 uncias longa, unciam lata, ssepius 

 triloba, lobus medius ovato-lanceolatus 2-3 uncias longus, unciam 

 latus, lateralia breviora falcata ; baud raro praesertim in plantis 

 juvenibus multilobata vel runcinata. Paniculss nutantes multi- 

 florae, ramosao densse pulcherritnae. Flores eis S. Seaforthut 

 subsequales, violaceso, conniventes; pedicellis | unciam longis. 

 Calyx viridis parvus, dentibus parvis 5. Corolla J-uncialis, lobi 5, 

 lanccolatse acuta?!, marginibus pubescentibus. Stamina 5, filamentis 

 brevibus basi incrassatis, ad apicibus acurainatis ; antherse flav© 

 conicse, conniventes, poris magnis duobus dehiscentes. Stylus 

 gracilis curvulus ; stigma capitatum parvum. Ovarium globosum. 

 Baceae parv© globose coccinese. 



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