490 MR. J. G. BAKER ON THÉ 
nulate tube. Corolla dark lilac, subrotate, nearly an inch in 
diameter, pilose externally ; segments deltoid, half as long as the 
tube. Anthers bright orange-yellow, linear-oblong, nearly j in. 
long; filaments very short. Berry perfectly globose, smooth, 
under an inch in diameter.— o this type the following wild 
Chilian specimens in the London herbaria evidently belong, viz. :— 
(1) Bridges, 719, “In los Andes near rivers, province of Valdivia ;" 
(2) Reynolds, 78, “ Antuco;" (3) Germain, “ Cordillera de 
Maule ;” (4) Gillies, * Andes of Chile and Mendoza;" and (5) 
Gillies, * At San Isidro, near the foot of the mountains of Men- 
doza, March 1824." 
2. SOLANUM ETUBEROSUM, Lindl.— his is figured and described 
by Lindley in the * Botanical Register,’ tab. 1712, and is adopted 
as a specles by Dunal. The specimen figured is now in the 
Lindley collection at Cambridge. Lindley’s note upon it is as 
follows :—“ Facies omnino S. £uberosi, sed tubera nulla profert : 
flores majores sunt, brevius pedunculati, calyxque glaber est et 
lucidus, nec pilis hispidus. Species certo certius distinctissima, 
etsi notis levibus cognoscenda. This curious plant is a hardy 
perennial, native of Chili, whence it was obtained some years 
since by the Horticultural Society. It bears rich clusters of 
purple blossoms, with a golden yellow centre, from July to 
October, and is very easily multiplied by dividing its stout rooting 
underground stems. Although extremely similar to the Potato 
in appearance, yet its larger and more compact flowers, and its 
want of the power of producing tubers, render it a proper plant 
for a flower-garden.” To me it seems likely to be a variety of 
tuberosum, marked by its want of tubers, its subglabrous leaves 
and calyx, its short unpointed calyx-segments, and very large 
bright-coloured corolla. A wild specimen, called S. etuberosum, 
in the Chilian herbarium of Mr. E. C. Reed, labelled (by Dr. 
Philippi ?) * Los Damos, Jan. 1872," differs from Lindley's type 
by its more hairy leaves and ealyx and more pointed calyx-teeth. 
3. SOLANUM FERNANDEZIANUM, Philippi ——This is a plant of 
the island of Juan Fernandez, characterized in the ‘Linnea, 
vol. xxix. p. 23. It looks to me likely to be a mere variety of 
S. tuberosum, differing from the type by its slender stems, sub- 
glabrous stem, leaves, and ealyx, very large thin narrow-oblong 
pointed leaflets, small calyx, and small purple corolla. The 
