12 : Georg Bitter. 
XLVII. Ergänzungen zur Sektion: Anarrhichomenum. | 
293. Solanum (Anarrhichomenum) brevifolium Humb. et Bonpl. ex Dun. 
Sol. Syn. (1816), p. 22; Dun. Sol. Icon. ined, tab. 113; H. B. K. Nov, 
Gen, et Spec. III (1818), p. 36; Benth. in Pl. Hartweg (1846), p. 239; 
Dun. in DC. Prodr, XIII, J (1852), p. 139. 
Suffruticosum, radicibus adventitiis in arboribus etrupibussatis alte scan- 
dens; rami superiores debiles, tenues, diam. cr. 1 mm; virides, pilis parvis sim- 
plicibus curvatim aecumbentibus crebris obtecti; internodia er. 0,8—2 cm 
longa; folia solitaria (vel rami axillaris folio infimo parvo basilari false 
geminata); petioli graciles, 5—14 mm longi, supra canaliculati, in tota 
superficie eodem indumento parvo quo rami vestiti; laminae praecipue 
in folis superioribus simplices, elliptici-ovatae, er. 1,7: 0,7, 2,3: 1,1, 
2,8:1,5 cm, utrinque obtusae, paulo supra basim rotundatam vel A ve 
obliquam latissimae, vel (in ramis elongatioribus robustioribus) impari- 
pinnatae, - foliolis , lateralibus 1—2 parvis suborbicularibus vel oblique 
ovatis obtusis er. 4: 3- 10:7 mm, foliolo terminali pluries majori elliptici- 
` ovato obtuso er. 2,9—3,4: 1,5— 1,9 em, laminae firme membranaceae, mar- 
gine integro parum revoluto, supra obscure virides, praeter venam 
mediam breviter pilosam fere glabrae, subtus pallide virides, 
pilis brevibus simplicibus valde sparsis, punctis minutis albidis 
(arena erystallina!) crebris obsitae; vena media et venae later. prim. in 
utroque latere 5—6 eurvatim ascendentes utrinque prominentes, meso- 
phyllum supra exsiccatione satis rugosum venis venulisque reticulatim 
prominulis; inflorescentiae subterminales sessiles vel jn ramulis parvis 
axillaribus, 1—3-florae; pedicel]i graciles, cr. 10—11 mm longi, ad apicem 
versus sensim incrassati, glabri; calyx campanulatus, cr. 3 mm longus, 
apice er. 4 mm diam., in lobos 5 er. 1,5 mm longos 1 mm latos trian- 
gulares manifeste acuminatos apice ipso obtusiusculos praeter.acumina 
breviter pilosa fere glabros partitus, intus praeter membranas intersepa- 
larias diaphanas glabras praecipue in parte mediana sepalorum glandulis 
minutis breviter stipitatis erebris obsitus; corolla pallide violacea, cam- 
panulati-stellata, diam. cr. 15—18 mm, profunde in lobos. lanceolatos 
acutiusculos er. 6—8:1,5—2 mm venis 7—8 percursos extus in margine 
et in apice eucullato pilis pluricellularibus simplicibus acutis densiusculis 
obtectos partita; corollae tubus tandem paulum elongatus, er. 
2 mm longus, glaber; filamenta gracilia, tandem 1,5 mm longa, glabra; 
antherae anguste ellipsoidede, cr. 4:0,8 mm, basi manifeste cordatae, 
apice paulum emarginatae, poris parvis introrsis apicalibus obliquis; 
ovarium subglobosi-conicum, ditm. er. 1 mm, apice paulum acuminatum, 
glabrum; stylus gracilis, rectus, stamina manifeste superans, er. 7 mim 
longus, in tertia parte inferiore papillis minutis (mieroscopice solum per- 
spiciendis) crebris instructus, superne glaberrimus, ad apicem versus sen- 
sim incrassatus; stigma styli apice paulum vel manifeste crassius, sub 
elavatum, obtusum; bacca aurantiaca, subglobosa. 
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