Tab. G914. 



SOLANUM Wendlandii. 



Native of Costa Elca. 



Nat. Ord. Solanachj2. — Tribe Solanee. 

 Genus Solancit, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. PI. vol. ii. p. 888. 



Solanum Wendlandii ; fruticosum, scandens, glaberrimum, sparse aculeatum, foliis 

 longe petiolatis, superioribus simplicibns oblongis acumiuatis basi eordatis, v. 

 varie 3-lobis, v. 3-foliolatis, foliolm lateralibus nunc parvulis nunc terminali 

 sequalibus, inferioribus inulto majoribus 6-8 pollicaribus pinnatifidis v. basi 

 pinnatis segmentis pinnisve oblongis ellipticisve, cymis atnplis, calycis parvi 

 lobis oblongis erectis ciliolatis apicibus rotundatis obtuse apiculatis, corolla 

 ampla pallide lilacino-purpurea, antheris linearibus erectis. 



Living plants of this beautiful Solarium were sent to 

 the Royal Gardens in 1882 by Dr. Wendland, Director of 

 the Royal Gardens at Herrenhausen, Hanover, with ttu 

 information that it is a native of the cold regions of 

 Costa Rica, where it climbs trees. This habit it has 

 retained at Kew, where it ascends to the rafters of the 

 Water Lily House, and 'flowers profusely. I can find 

 nothing like it described, or in the Kew Herbarium, though 

 it clearly belongs to the same set as S. lanatum, Dunal, 

 figured in " The Botanist," vol. ii. tab. 58. That, however, 

 is an erect plant clothed with rusty tomentum, and has 

 almost free lanceolate acuminate calyx-segment. The 

 corolla is exactly the same in form, size and colour in both 

 species. 



8. Wendlandii flowered, in the month of August at Kew, 

 and bears the name of the distinguished head of the long 

 and deservedly celebrated Botanical Gardens from whence 

 our specimen came, one who has himself, both by his 

 travels and writings, done so much for the Natural History 

 of Central America, and for the whole Order of Palms, of 

 which he is the sole master. 



Desck. A climbing glabrous shrub, with terete green 

 stems and branches ; prickles on the stems branches and 

 petioles few, scattered, short, hooked. Leaves very variable, 

 two to ten inches long by one and a half to four inches 



jan. 1st. 1887. 



