TUBER-BEARING SPECIES OF SOLANUM. 501 
and deeply coloured, and the berry is globose and dotted all over 
with white raised points. A specimen from Chiswick Gardens 
in 1847, from tubers sent by Mr. C. A. Uhde, is in the Lindley 
herbarium. I do not think it is more than a mere variety of 
S. tuberosum. 
2. SOLANUM sUAVEOLENS, Kunth & Bouché.—This I know 
only from the full description in the ‘ Prodromus,’ and a specimen 
dried from Kew Gardens in July 1874. The root is said to be 
fibrous, annual, and quite devoid of tubers. In the specimen in 
question the stem and leaves are nearly glabrous, the leaves con- 
spicuously pseudo-stipulate, 6 or 8 inches long, with 9-11 large 
acute oblong-lanceolate leaflets 2-3 inches long, without any 
small ones interspersed. The flowers are small, white, and sweet- 
scented, the shape of the corolla being precisely that of S. £ube- 
vosum. The berry is said to be ovoid-globose, the size of a cherry, 
green, and variegated with irregular paler longitudinal zones. 
3. SOLANUM STOLONIFERUM, Schlecht.—This is said to be a 
native of the foot of the well-known volcanic mountain of 
Orizaba, at an elevation of 10,000 to 11,000 feet, and to be called 
by the natives “ Papa cimarrona." It is said to have an annual 
stoloniferous tuber-bearing rootstock, with long running stolons 
and tubers the size of a hazel-nut. The following are my notes 
on authentic specimens from the Leipsic garden, dried in Aug. 
1840 :—Stems erect, slender, flexuose. Leaves pseudo-stipulate, 
5-6 in. long, with a 1-12 in. petiole. Leaflets about 9, the lowest 
pair small, with several small ones interspersed on the rhachis, 
broad ovate, acute, much rounded at the base, the side ones 
distinctly petioled, the end one an inch long; the upper surface 
green and thinly hairy, the lower grey and densely hairy. Calyx 
tin. long, densely bristly ; teeth lanceolate-deltoid, about as 
long as the tube. Corolla small, white, with deltoid segments. 
Anthers 4 in. long. Style much exserted. Berry subglobose. 
4. SOLANUM DEMISSUM, Lindl.--This is fully described and 
figured by Lindley, in vol. iii. of the ‘ Journal of the Horticultural 
Society,’ pp. 68 & 69, and I have examined the type specimen in 
the Lindley herbarium at Cambridge. The plant was received 
from Mr. C. A. Uhde, marked “Native Mexican Potatoes, 
growing at 8000 to 9000 feet elevation," and was cultivated at 
