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scales; leaves elliptical or ovate, pointleted, petioled, entire or repand, dotted above with 

 minute scales, usually more densely lepidote beneath ; cymes terminal or lateral, loug- 

 peduncled : pedicels fastigiate, thickened above, lepidote, as well as the flowers ; calyx 

 4-lobed, much shorter than the corolla : lobes roundish-deltoid ; corolla ^-partite : seg- 

 ments ovate-oblong, bluntish ; anthers oblong. — A tree or shrub, 30' high ; leaves 6 "-4", 

 petiole 8"'-6'" long; cymes irregularly dichotomons, 6— 12-flowered : pedicels spreading or 

 cernuous, 4"'-5'", calyx H'"-2'", anthers 2"' long ; corolla 10"'-8'" diam.— Hab. Jamaica!, 

 Pd., Wils., Mac/., Portland Gap, Manchester, iu moist woods near Mandaville. 



Sect. 2. Pi.agioporus. — Anthers oblong, blunt : pores forming transverse slits, introrse- 

 terminal or terminal. — Stem unarmed ; down stellate ; cymes corymbiform, peduncled, 

 usually terminal. 



35. S. Radula, V, Shrubby, scabrous, with sessile stellate down ; leaves lanceolate, 

 acuminate at both ends, subsessile, or tapering into a short petiole, entire, greenish on both 

 sides : hair-fascicles somewhat distant ; cymes terminal or lateral, long-peduncled : flowers 

 stellate-tomeutose ; calyx 5-lo6ed, half as long as the corolla : lobes ovate, bluntish; corolla 

 deeply o-ftd: lobes ovate bluntish; anthers oblong: pores transverse, introrse ; style in- 

 flexed ; berry " globose." — Miq. Sarin, t. 38. — Leaves 6"-3" long, 12"'-8'" broad ; calyx 

 \\'", anthers 1'" long ; corolla white, 4'" diam. — Hab. Trinidad!, Or., common; [Cuba, 

 French islands ; Venezuela !, Guiana !, Brazil !]. 



36. S. asperum, V. Shrubby, scabrous with sessile stellate down ; leaves elliptical 

 or elliptical-oblong, pointleted, tapering into the winged petiole, entire, greenish, paler 

 beneath : hair-fascicles distinct ; cymes terminal, long-peduncled : flowers stellate-tomen- 

 tose ; calyx broadly ^-dentate, less than half as long as the corolla : teeth deltoid, half as 

 long as their tube; corolla deeply o-ftd : lobes ovate-oblong, pointed; anthers oblong : 

 pores transverse, introrse; style incurved ; berry "globose." — Bun. Solan, t. 7. — 10'-12' 

 high ; leaves 8"-6" long, 24"-2" broad : petiole 12"'-8"' long, winged to the base ; calyx 

 2 , anthers 1'" long ; corolla 6'" diam. — Hab. Dominica !, Imr. ; [Cuba to French islands ; 

 Guiana !, Brazil !]. 



37. S. callicarpifolium, Kth. Shrubby, scabrous and tomentose above with stipitate 

 and sessile stellate down ; leaves elliptical, sharply pointed, tapering into the petiole, en- 

 tire, scabrous-wrinkled and green above, hoary -tomentose beneath ; cymes terminal, or at 

 length lateral, long-peduncled: flowers stellate-tomentose ; calyx 5 -fid, half as long as the 

 corolla: lobes deltoid ; corolla 5 fid: lobes ovate-oblong, bluntish; anthers broadly oblong: 

 pores transverse, introrse; style incurved above; berry globose. — S. asperum, Sieb. Tr. 20 

 (non V.).— Leaves 6"-2" long, 3"-l" broad : petiole 12"'-4'" long, rarely winged to the 

 base ; calyx 2'", anthers 1"' long ;. corolla 5'". berry 4'" diam., the latter black in drying. — 

 Hab. S. Vincent!, Guild.; Trinidad!, Sieb., Lockh., Cr., S.Anns; [Cuba!; Mexico!, 

 Panama !, Guiana!]. 



38. S. verbascifolium, L. Shrubby, wholly tomentose ; leaves ovate, pointed, ab- 

 ruptly passing into the petiole, entire : down soft, hoary beneath ; cymes terminal, long- 

 peduncled : flowers hoary-tomentose ; calyx 5-fld, half as long as the corolla : lobes deltoid ; 

 corolla 5-partite : lobes ovate-oblong, bluntish ; anthers oblong : pores transverse, terminal ; 

 style straightish; berry globose. — Jacg. H. Vind. 1. t. 13. Wight, Ic. t. 1398. —A shrub 

 or low tree, 8'-12' high, variable in the leaves, greenish or yellowish-grey above, in the 

 down yellowish or hoary, appressed or spreading ; leaves ] 0"-3", petiole 14"-i"> calyx 2" - 

 3'", anthers 1'" long: corolla white, 4"'-6'", berry 4'" diam.— Hab. Jamaica!, all coll.; 

 Trinidad !, Sieb. Tr. 21 ; [Key West !, Cuba !, and Mexico ! to Brazil ! ; Galapagos ! to East 

 Indies !]. 



Sect. 3. Microporus, Sendtn. — Anthers ovate-oblong or oblong, with minute pores at the 

 bluntish point. — Stem unarmed ; flowers in lateral, simply umbelliform or cymbiform 

 cymes, or solitary. 



* Calyx-divisions 5 (Lycianthes, Bun.). 



39. S. havanense, Jacg. Shrubby, glabrous ; leaves lanceolate-oblong or elliptical- 

 oblong, bluntish, tapering into the short petiole, entire ; cymes corymbiform, usually few 

 (-l)-flowered : flowers large, blue ; calyx deeply 5-fld, one-fourth to one-sixth as long as 



