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the corolla : lobes oblong, blunt, (sometimes geminately combined) ; corolla 5-jicl : lobes 

 reniform-roundish, mucronate, shorter than the flatfish -expanded tube; anthers ovate- 

 oblong; style straightish; berry ovoid. — Jacq. Jmer. Pict. t. 48. Bot. Mag. t. 2708.— 

 S. coriaceura, Hook. S. Hookerianum, Spreng. S. vaccinifolium, Dun. : a small- flowered 

 form. — 4-7' high, variable in the leaves, the breadth of the calyx-lobes, and the size of the 

 flowers; leaves 4''-H", calyx 2'", yellow anthers 2'" long ; corolla 16"'-8'" diam. ; berry 

 dark-blue, 8"'-6'" long. — Hab. Jamaica!, Mae/., Pd., Wilt., March, in dry, calcareous 

 soil, and on maritime rocks, Manchester, Holland Bay, Manchioneal ; [Cuba ! to Martinique ; 

 Mexico to Peru]. 



** Calyx truncate, its 10 nerves usually produced into inframarginal, exterior 

 appendages (Polymeris, Dun.). 



40. S. retrofractum, V. Shrubby, trailing-flexuose, glabrescent or glabrous; leaves 

 ovate, pointed, petioled, entire; cymes umbelliform, shortly peduneled ; calyx truncate or 

 repand, much shorter than the corolla : appendages none ; corolla stellate, fiattish-ex- 

 panded, glabrous ; border mticronate-angular ; filaments slightly unequal : anthers ovate- 

 oblong, half as long as the corolla ; style straightish ; berry globose. — Dun. Solan, t. 5. — 

 S. longepedunculatum, Berter. S. stellatum, Jacq., is perhaps a form with the 10 appen- 

 dages of the calyx developed. — Leaves membranaceous, 4"-li", petiole 5"'-3"', pedicels 1", 

 calyx 1 W -1V, anthers 1^"' long ; corolla purple, stellate with 5 discoloured rays, 12"'-8'", 

 berry 4"' diam. — Hab. Jamaica !, all coll., in the mountains, Port Royal, Alanchester, 

 Westmoreland. 



41. S. neglectum, Dun. Shrubby, puberulous with stellate down above, glabrescent ; 

 leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, poiuted, petioled, entire, glabrous above, puberulous or gla- 

 brate beneath : cymes umbelliform, sessile ; calyx externally appendiculate below the trun- 

 cate border, one-third as long as the corolla: appendages 10, oblong, blunt, spreading or 

 recurved, about half as long as the tube (rarely wanting) ; corolla glabrous : limb sinuate- 

 5-angular ; anthers oblong : fifth filament twice as long as the rest ; style straightish : 

 stigma clavate ; berry globose. — Plum. Ed. Burnt, t. 24-5.fi 4. — Leaves 6"-4", the smaller 

 in the pair 2", petiole 6" y -8'", pedicels 8"'-4'", calyx 2'", anthers 2'" long ; corolla 8"'-10'", 

 berry 8'" diam. — Hab. Dominica !, Imr., S. Vincent !, Guild. ; Trinidad (Sieb.). 



42. S. lentuin, Cav. Shrubby, pubescent or tomentose with stellate down ; leaves 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, pointed, petioled, entire, puberulous (or pubescent) above, tomen- 

 tose or pubescent beneath ; fascicles few-flowered, sessile ; calyx externally appendiculate 

 below the truncate border, about one-third as long as the corolla : appendages 10, thickish- 



filiform, blunt, erect, as long as the tube ; corolla stellate, with the rays pubescent on I he 

 buck: limb sinuate-% -angular ; anthers obloug : fifth filament much longer than the rest, 

 equalling the other anthers ; style straightish : stigma clavate ; berry globose. — Cav. Ic. 

 t. 308. — Leaves 3"-l£" long, less sharply pointed than in the preceding ; pedicels 6-2 in 

 the fascicle, 8"'-12"', calyx 2"'-3'", anthers 2'" long ; corolla about 1", berry 4'" diam.— 

 Hab. Trinidad !, Cr., at La Ventilla; [Mexico !, Venezuela!, New Granada !]. 



Sect. 4. Lewostkmon, Sendtn. — Anthers slender, tapering above : pores minute, terminal 

 or extrorse-terminal. — Stem mostly armed with prickles. 



* Leaves unarmed, or prickly only on the midrib. 



t Stem furnished with slender, straight prickles, or unarmed (Graciliflora, Dun.). 



43. S. racemoivm, L. Shrubby, unarmed, stellate- puberulous, at length glabrescent , 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, entire or repand, petioled ; cymes lateral, simply racemi- 



form, peduneled : pedicels at length cernuous ; calyx 5-dentate, much shorter than the 

 corolla; corolla white, tripartite : segments lanceolate, pointed, somewhat longer than the 

 stamens; anthers elongated, nearly including the filiform style: stigma minuter berry 

 globose, red.— Jacq. Amur. Pict. t. 50.— Distinguished from unarmed specimens of the 

 followin" by longer anthers.— 4' high ; leaves 6"-2", calyx 1'", anthers 3*'" long ; corolla 

 10"'-12^' berry 4'" diam. — Hab. Jamaica !, Pd., along the coast, Westmoreland ; S. Kitts !, 

 Els., Dominica !, Finl., Imr., S. Vincent !, Guild. ; [S. Thomas !, French islands'!, Sieb. 

 Mart. 65]. 



