TAR. Oage- 
SOLANU M RUNCINATUM. 
Runeinate-leaved Solanum. 
Nat. Ord. SoLANACEX®.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-(rarius 4—6-10-)partitus, fidus, dentatus crenatusve atque 
etiam integer. Corolla rotata, cupularis vel patellaris, tubo brevi, limbo plicato, 
5-(rarius 4 vel 6-)fido, partito vel angulari, Stamina 5, rarius 4 vel 6, corollz 
fauci adnata, plerumque exserta ; filamenta brevissima, equalia vel rarius ine- 
qualia. Anthere liber, apice poris geminis dehiscentes, conniventes, rarissime 
connate, equales vel interdum ingequales, loculis lateribus connectivo non 
conspicuo adnatis. Ovarium 2- (rarius 3-4) loculare, placentis dissepimento 
‘asertis adnatis multiovulatis. Stylus simplex. Stigma obtusum. Bacea 2- 
(rarius 3—4)locularis.  Semina plurima, subreniformia, compressa. Embryo 
periphericus, spiralis, albumen carnosum includens. Dunal. 
Sotanum (§ Pachystemonum) runcinatum ; caule herbaceo procumbente angu- 
loso succoso fragili, foliis puberulis pinnatifidis 5—7-lobis, lobis sinubusque 
obtusis, corollis revolutis 5-fidis, laciniis late ovatis acutis, baccis parvis 
globosis. 
SoLANUM runcinatum. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Peruv. et Chil. v. 2. p. 36. Ram. et 
Schult. Syst. Veget. v. 4. p. 579 in not. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 678 
(sub S. quercifolium). De Cand. Prodr. v. 13. P19. 1. 
The genus Solanum, notwithstanding it is now shorn of many 
of its original species, still, on account of the numerous recent _ 
additions by the researches of botanists and travellers, includes, 
under two primary sections and numerous subsections and di- 
visions and subdivisions, no less than $84 species, according to 
Dunal, in De Candolle’s ‘ Prodromus.’ Our present species, in 
that work, ranks under the first section, Pachystemonum, and the 
third subsection, Dulcamara, the same to which our Bitter- 
sweet belongs. It is a native of Chili, and was raised at Kew, 
from seeds sent from Coquimbo. It is a really ornamental 
species, and well deserving of cultivation in a greenhouse, con- 
tinuing a long time in flower during the summer months. The 
corollas are of a bright purple-colour, with five blood-red starry 
points radiating from the base of the lobes, while the large an- 
thers are yellow, from between which the green clavate stigma 
is protruded. 
DECEMBER lst, 1860. 
