416 SOLANACE. 
tersb. 10. p. 286. Hook. et Arn. p. 152.) plant clothed with 
hoary down ; stem suffruticose ; leaves petiolate, ovate, acutish, 
quite entire; racemes umbellate, terminal, few-flowered ; calyx 
urceolate, 5-cleft: with acute segments; corolla 5-cleft, 3 times 
longer than the calyx. h. H. Native of California. | Corolla 
at first campanulate. Anthers biporose at the apex, with a ten- 
dency to split. 
Umbelliferous Nightshade. Shrub. 
106 S. Baname’nse (Mill. dict. no. 24.) shrubby; leaves 
lanceolate, sinuately toothed, glabrous; umbels erect. h. F. 
Native of the Bahama Islands, Catesby. Dill. elth. t. 363. 
Bark brown. Leaves 34 inches long, and 14 broad, acuminated, 
pale green. Umbels small, lateral. Flowers large, white; seg- 
ments acuminated. 
Bahama Nightshade. Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 
§ 2. Racemes, cymes, or corymbs, lateral, rameal, not axillary 
nor opposite the leaves. 
107 S. va‘cum (Heyne, ex Wall. cat. no. 2624. Nees, in 
Lin. trans. 17. p. 48.) shrubby ; leaves ovate-oblong, repandly 
sinuated, clothed with powdery tomentum beneath while young, 
as well as the young branches; cymes lateral, bifid; calycine 
segments long-acuminated ; berries small, globose. h, S. 
Native of the East Indies. S. corymbósum, Wight, herb. 
This is a very distinct species, nearly allied to S. longifolium, 
and S. Bombénse, or pubigerum, Dun. ; but differs in the leaves 
being repandly angular ; from the first it differs in the flowers 
being smaller, and white ; and from the last in the calycine seg- 
ments being long-acuminated. 
Common Nightshade. Shrub. 
108 S. ru'rEo-A'LBUM (Pers. ench. 1. p. 221. Dun. sol. 
168. syn. p. 18.) stem shrubby ; leaves ovate, acute, downy on 
both surfaces; racemes cymose, lateral; flowers secund. h. 
S. Native of Peru, in groves at Cuchero. S. pubéscens, 
Ruiz. et Pav. fl. per. 2. p. 36. t. 169. f. b. Corolla pale yel- 
low. Berry globose, shining, orange-coloured, size of a cherry. 
Habit of S. pubéscens ; but differs in the flowers being cymosely 
branched, less umbellate, and not opposite the leaves. Calycine 
segments deflexed, acute. 
Yellow-white-flowered Nightshade. Shrub. 
109 S. cuzonaA'wTHUM (Spreng. syst. 1. p. 682.) leaves ob- 
long, attenuated at the base, shining above, and quite glabrous, 
but clothed with stellate tomentum beneath ; peduncles sub-um- 
bellate ; corollas minute, green; calyx 5-parted. h.S. Na- 
tive of Brazil. 
Green-flowered Nightshade. Shrub. 
110 S. xa’xum (Spreng. syst. 1. p. 682.) leaves ovate, acute, 
glabrous, veiny; branches cirrhiferous, scandent; peduncles 
racemose, loose; calyx 5-parted. h.. S. Native of Monte 
Video, Sello. 
Loose Nightshade. Shrub climbing. 
111 S. picHóromum (Lour. coch. 1. p. 160.) stem suffruti- 
cose, pilose ; leaves cordate-lanceolate, quite entire, tomentose ; 
peduncles dichotomous. h.G. Native of China. - Dun. sol. 
p. 167. syn. p. 18. Stem diffuse, branched. Berry small, glo- 
bose, red. 
Forked-peduncled Nightshade. Shrub. 
112 S. riirérme (Ruiz. et Pav. fl. per. 2. p. 31. t. 159.) 
stem suffruticose ; leaves ovate and cordate, obtuse, pubescent ; 
peduncles filiform, bifid, subumbellate. h. S. Native of 
Peru, on hills at Lomas de Atiquipa. Dun. sol. 171. syn. p. 
18. Habit of Sálvia. Stem granular. Flowers drooping. 
Corolla pale blue, thrice as large as the calyx. 
Filiform-peduncled Nightshade. Shrub. 
113 S. víre (R. Br. prod. p. 445.) suffruticose ; leaves 
I. SoraNUM. 
ovate-oblong, acute, entire, flat, membranous, glabrous; ra- 
cemes corymbose, simple or bipartite; calyx and corolla 5- 
cleft. 5. GG. Native of New Holland, within the tropic, on 
the sea shore. Perhaps the same as S. viride. Forst. pl. escul. 
p. 42. Spreng. mant. 1. p. 37. 
Green Nightshade. Shrub. 
114 S. serrceum (Ruiz. et Pav. fl. per. 2. p. 33. t. 161. f. 
b. Dun. sol p. 181. syn. p. 19.) stem shrubby ; branches 
slender ; leaves small, ovate-lanceolate, silky, quite entire; pe- 
duncles 2-flowered, or few-flowered, cymose. h.S. Native 
of Peru, at Huassen-huassi, in woods. Branches silky. Leaves 
hoary. Corolla bluish-violet, silky outside. Berry red. Ruiz. 
et Pav. say that this species agrees with S. eleagnifolium, and 
probably, like it, prickly at the base. 
Silky Nightshade. Shrub 43 feet. 
115 S. Linxia'num (Roem. et Schultes, syst. 4. p. 601.) stem 
shrubby, much branched ; branches twiggy, thickish, strigose ; 
leaves ovate-lanceolate, strigose on both surfaces, somewhat re- 
pand; peduncles 2-flowered. h. S. Native of Brazil. $. 
diffüsum, Link, herb. Leaves 1l inch long, and § an inch 
broad. Peduncles extra-foliaceous, nearly an inch long, de- 
flexed. Calyx 5-parted, hairy, with lanceolate segments. Berry 
glabrous, size of a pea. : 
Link’s Nightshade. Shrub. 
§ 3. Racemes opposite the leaves, or almost so, tomentose, 
downy, or clothed with leprous-like silvery, powdery down. 
116 S. nu'rans (Ruiz. et Pav. fl. per. 2. p. 34. t. 166. f. a.) 
shrubby; leaves oblong-ovate, acuminated, woolly beneath ; 
racemes very short, opposite the leaves, cymose, recurved, 
many-flowered; flowers secund, drooping. h.S. Native of 
Peru, in waste places on the road to Pillao, where it is called 
Chuculate by the natives. Dun. sol. p. 167. syn. p. 19. Shrub 
rusty; branches granular. Leaves quite entire, granular above, 
and nearly glabrous. Corollas small, white. Calyx woolly. 
Berry yellow, globose. 
Drooping-flowered Nightshade. Shrub. 
117 S. vendsum (Dun. syn. p. 19. sol. ed. 2d. t. 105. H.B. 
et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 3. p. 32.) arborescent ; branches 
floccosely pilose; leaves lanceolate-oblong, acuminated, acute 
at the base, quite entire, rather pilose above, and hairy beneath; 
corymbs opposite the leaves. 5. S. Native of New Granada, 
on the Andes of Quindiu. Leaves floccose on the midrib be- 
neath, 5 or 54 inches long; petioles floccose. Calyx small, with 
roundish segments. Berry nearly globose, size of a sloe. 
Veiny-leaved Nightshade. Shrub or Tree. 
118 S. Swarrzia‘num (Roem. et Schultes, syst. 4. p. 602.) 
shrubby ; leaves petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, quite entire, coria- 
ceous, glabrous, clothed with stellate hairs, beset with orbicular, 
golden-yellow scales beneath ; racemes solitary, terminal. Mh. 
S. Native of Brazil, near Villa Ricca. S. aüreum, Swartz, in 
litt. Branches terete, beset with rusty scales. Racemes 5- 
flowered ; pedicels deflexed, scaly. Calyx pentagonal, scaly 
outside. Corolla beset with scales outside, dark purple inside, 
with acuminated segments. Anthers purple. 
Swartz’s Nightshade. Shrub. 
119 S. cxAPHALIOI pes (Pers. ench. 1. p. 223.) stem shrubby ; 
leaves lanceolate, repand, glabrous, shining; umbels opposite 
the leaves, tomentose; berries drooping. h. S. Native of 
Peru, in shady places at Tarma; and in hedges about Aca- 
bamba, where it is called Nununya by the natives. Dun. sol. 
p- 178. syn. p. 19. S. calygnaphalium, Ruiz. et Pav. fl. per. 2. 
p.31. The calyxes being clothed with tomentum, the plant has 
much the appearance of a species of Gnaphàlium. Corollas vio- 
laceous. Berries dark red, saponaceous, size of a filbert. 
