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SOLANUM macrantherum. 
Large-anthered Bitter-sweet. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. SoLANACES. 
SOLANUM, Botanical Register, vol. 1. fol. 71. 
__8S. macrantherum; caule scandente lignoso fruticoso, foliis petiolatis ovatis 
"cal btus tomentosiusculis, racemis paniculatis laxis. Dunal, Solan. 
p. 16. n. 81. Rimer §& Schultes, 4.596. Bentham Pl. Hartweg. no. 367. 
S. dulcamaroides. Poir. encycl. meth. suppl. iii. 750. 
Suffrutex pilosus, subscandens, pluripedalis. Folia ovato-cordata, acuta, 
mollia, omnia reniformia et indivisa. Panicule terminales, lara, multifiore, 
pedunculis bisbifidis. Calyx 5-angularis.“ Corolla fere sesquiunciam lata, 
intus atropurpurea, extus violacea, annulo faucis pallelo. Antheree, ratione 
corolla magne, lutea, breves, obese: inferiore maore. 
A fine half-shrubby greenhouse plant, with large clusters 
of deep purple flowers, whose centre is occupied by a knot of 
large bright yellow anthers. It is nearly allied to the bitter- 
sweet of our hedgerows, but its flowers are very much larger, 
and handsomer. 
For its introduction we are indebted to Mr. Page, nursery- 
man, Southampton, who writes of it thus :— 
“Sept. 24, 1840. The Solanum is growing vigorously, 
and promises to be arborescent. It was kept during the last 
winter in a conservatory. I received the seeds in July, 1838, 
from Mexico, from Mr. Parkinson; they were sown late in 
the autumn, and many of the plants damped off. That which 
flowered is now about three feet high, with several branches, 
and fine large leaves. It is a very beautiful plant, and I 
expect will produce an abundance of flowers from its vigour- 
ously growing shoots. 
In Mexico the plant scrambles up any thing it may be 
near, just as happens to the English Bitter-sweet, and this 
February, 1841. D 
