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corolla : lobes ovate, often mucronate ; corolla bluish, externally tomentose, 5-partite : 

 segments lanceolate-linear, acuniiuate, little exceeding the anthers ; berry globose. — Bun. 

 Solan, t. 15. — S. obscurum, V. S. stamineum, Steua 1 .! S. heterophyllum, Lam.: a form 

 with ternately approximate leaves. S. Rodsehiedii, Mey. Esseq. I: a form with sinuate leaves 

 and stout prickles.— Leaves 5"-3" (-2"), prickles l"'-4"', corolla 6"'-10"', anthers 6'" long. 

 — Hab. Trinidad !, Lockh., in dry, cultivated ground ; [Panama !, Venezuela !, Guiana !, 

 Brazil!]. 



50. S. jamaicense, Sw. ! Shrubby, wholly tomentose, prickly along the branches and 

 midribs of the leaves : all prickles recurved, subcompressed, yellow ; wool stellate ; leaves 

 rhomboid, siuuate-angular (or entire), cuneate at the subsessile base ; cymes lateral umbel- 

 liform, subsessile; calyx usually prickly, 5-partite, half as long as the corolla : segments 

 lanceolate, or linear, acuminate ; corolla bluish or white, 5-partite : segments lanceolate, 

 little exceeding the anthers ; berry globose, yellow. — SI. t. 144. f, 3, Bun. Sol. t. 20 and 22. 

 — S. brevipilum, heterotridum, and cuneifolium, Bun. — Leaves 6"-3" (-2"), prickles 3'"- 

 H"', corolla 3"', authers 2'" long; berry 3"'-2'" diam.— Hab. Jamaica!, Mac/., At., 

 Wullschl., in waste ground ; [Cuba ! to Brazil !]. 



ttt Stem furnished with straight frarely slightly recurved) prickles ; corolla 5-fid, 

 plaited at the base (Torva, Ns.) 



51. S. torvum, Sw. Shrubby, tomentose, prickly along the branches, petioles, and 

 midribs of the leaves (or unarmed) : prickles distant, straightish, subcompressed ; wool 

 stellate ; leaves ovate, sinuate-angular or subentire, pointed, subcordate or truncate at the 

 base, long-petioled, scabrous above, hoary -velvety beneath ; cymes lateral, usually bifid, 

 scorpioid-corynibiform : pedicels glandular ; calyx unarmed, 5-fid, at length 5-partite, one- 

 fourth as long as the corolla : lobes ovate, mucronate-acute ; corolla whitish, stellate, 5-fid: 

 lobes ovate-lanceolate ; style incurved above ; berry globose. — Bun. Solan, t. 23. Jacq. 

 Schcenbr. 3. t. 324. — S. ferrugineum, Jacq. — Variable ; leaves 8"-2", prickles l'"-2£' , 

 corolla 5"'-7"', anthers 3'" long ; berry 4'" diam. —Hab. Jamaica !, Macf., March, Wullschl., 

 in hedges; S. Kitts!, Antigua!, Wullschl., Dominica!, Imr., S. Vincent!, Guild.; Trini- 

 dad !, Sieb. Tr. 25, Or. ; [Cuba ! and Mexico ! to Brazil and Ecuador ! ; Bermudas ; East 

 Indies !]. 



52. S. inclusum, Gr. Shrubby, tomentose, prickly along the branches, and rarely on 

 the midribs of the leaves : prickles distaut, slender, straight ; wool stellate ; leaves ovate, 

 or ovate-oblong, repand-entire or slightly sinuate, bluntish, petioled, scabrous above, hoary- 

 tomentose beneath ; cymes lateral, few-flowered ; calyx prickly at the base or unarmed, 

 5-fid, one-third as long as the corolla : lobes ovate or ovate-oblong, bluntish ; corolla blu- 

 ish, 5-fid: lobes ovate-lanceolate, twice as long as the anthers ; berry depressed-globose, 

 red, surrounded by the excrescent, foliaceous calyx. — S. tomentosum americanum, Auct. 

 S. tomentosum, Hort. Germ. S. hybridum, Bun. (non Jacq). — S. tomentosum, L., of the 

 Cape (S. coccineum, Jacq. Ic. Rar. I. 43.) has much smaller, pea-like berries, supported by 

 a minute calyx. — Leaves 2"-3", prickles 3"'-2'", corolla 5"'-6"', anthers 2'" long ; berry 

 8"'-10'" diam., equalling or exceeded by the calyx. — Hab. Jamaica!, Pd., St. Thomas, i. 

 V. ; [Cuba !, French islands ! ; Mexico to Guiana]. 



** Leaves bearing stout, straight prickles on the veins and midrib (Acanthophora, Bun.) 



53. S. Btramonifolvum, Jacq. {non Bun). Shrubby, tomentose with sleltate down, 

 prickly on the leaf-ribs and branches (rarely unarmed) : prickles stout, straight, compressed 

 or recurved on the branches ; leaves broadly ovate, angular-pinnatifid, scabrous above, hoary- 

 tomentose beneath -. lobes deltoid, spreadiug ; cymes lateral, subsessile, scorpioid-contracted ; 

 calyx unarmed, 5-crenate, one-fourth as long as the corolla: crenatnres roundish or mucro- 

 nate ; corolla blue, h-partite, externally tomentose : segments ovate-lanceolate ; authers 

 ovate-lanceolate, incurved; berry globose, tomentose, yellow. — Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 44. — S. 

 toxicarium, Rich. 8. demerarense, Bun. ! — Leaves 8"-3", yellow prickles 8"'-2'", corolla 

 3"'-6'", anthers 2"'-3'" long; berry 6"' diam.— Hab. Trinidad!, Sieb. Tr. 23, Sch.; 

 [Guiana !, Brazil !]. 



54. S. hirtum, V. Shrubby, tomentose with stellate down, long-hirsute on the pedicels 



