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SOLANÜUM uncinellum. 
Hook-petalled Solanum. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. SOLANACEZ. 
SOLANUM. Botanical Register, vol. 1. fol. 72. 
S. uncinellum (NYCTERIUM) ; inerme, herbaceum, foliis integerrimis ovato- 
lanceolatis subcordatis obsoletê pubescentibus, paniculá terminali, caly- 
cibus campanulatis 5-crenatis, corolle laciniis apice uncinatis, antheris 
apice biporosis alterà productiore. 
Caules decumbentes, herbacei, obscurê pubescentes, filiformes, virides. 
Folia alterna, ovato-lanceolata, basi subcordata, leviter pubescentia, integer- 
rima, 2 pollices longa, petiolo suo duplà longiora. Panicula terminalis, simplez, 
ramis subtrifloris. Flores rosei. Calyx campanulatus, dentibus 5 brevibus 
rotundatis. Corolla demitm patens imó revoluta, estivatione inflexo-valvari, . 
laciniis apice uncinato-inflexis. Anthere libere, apice biporose, conni- 
ventes sed nullo modo coherentes; alterd ceteris ob filamentum longius produc- 
tiore. Stylus pubescens ; stigma obscuré 2-lobum. 
This plant flowered in the year 1837 in the garden of 
the Horticultural Society, in the month of July, but having 
been subsequently destroyed by the severe winter of 1837-8 
its history was lost with it, and search has in vain been made 
for it in books. It was a pretty decumbent pink-flowered 
herbaceous plant, perhaps an annual, and appeared very 
different from any thing in the collections of this country. 
If the genus Nycterium is to be preserved, and the sin- 
gular elongation of one anther is a peculiarity deserving of 
consideration, then the present plant will belong to it. 
In some respects it approaches the S. loxense of Dunal, 
but that species is not said to be a Nycterium ; in other cir- 
cumstances it would seem referable to the vicinity of $. lyci- 
oides and caudicans, but the habit of those plants is by no 
means that of the plant before us. 
Fig. 1. represents the stamens, the principal part of the 
corolla having been cut away. 
