Tab. 5424. 

 solanum anthropophagorum. 



Cannibals Solanum or Boro dina. 



Nat. Ord. Solanace.e. — Pentandma Munugynia. 



Gen. Char. Calyx 5-(rariu9 4-6-10)-partitus -fidus -dcntatus -crenatusve, atquc 

 etiam integer, regularis vel rarius subirregularis. Corolla rotata, cupularis 

 vel patellaris, tubo brevi, limbo plicato 5-(rarius 4 v. f>)-fido -partito vel 

 -angulari. Stamina 5, rarius 4 vel 6, corolhe fauci adnata, plerumque exMlta ; 

 Jilamenta brevissima, sequalia vel rarius incquatia. Antheree libera, apice poris 

 geminis dehiscentes, eonniventes, rarissime connatae, aequales vel interdum ina 1 - 

 quales, loculis lateralibus connectivo non conspicuo adnatis. Ovarium bi-(rarius 

 3-4)-loculare, placentis dissepimento insertis adnatis multiovulatis. Stylus sub- 

 simplex. Stigma obtusum. Bacca 2-(rarius 3-4)-locularis. Semina plurima, sub- 

 reniformia, compressa. Embryo periphericus, spiralis, albumen carnosum in- 

 cludens. Bunal, in De Cand. 



Solanum aniliropopliagorv.m ; fruticosum, ramis herbaceis teretibus erectis, foliis 

 glabris ovatis acuminatis integerrimis vel (inferioribus) margine angulato- 

 lobatis longe petiolatis, pedimculis petiolo brevioribus extra-axillaribus soli- 

 tariis apice subcomposite racemosis, pedicellis paucis gracilibus cernuis, 

 floribus parvis, calyce tubo brevi subhemispbaerico conspicue 5-gibboso, 

 limbo 5-lobo, lobis triangulari-ovatis acuminatis, corolla (alba) rotata pu- 

 bescente, fructu magnitudine Citri Limetta globoso obscure 2-lobo apice 

 mammillato. 



Solanum anthropophagorum. Seem, in Bonplandia, 1862. ja. 294. t. 14. 



The ' Correspondence relative to the Fiji Islands,' presented 

 to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty in 

 May, 1862, is accompanied by an interesting Appendix, being 

 a Report, by Dr. Seeinann, on the " Vegetable Productions and 

 Resources of the Vitian or Fijian Islands," in which a chapter at 

 page 58 is devoted to " Vegetables eaten icith human flesh ; from 

 which I make the following extract : — " These it may be impor- 

 tant to notice ; since, thanks to the influence of commerce, Chris^ 

 tian teaching, and the presence of a British consul, cannibalism 

 survives only in a few localities, and is daily becoming more ar d 

 more a matter of history. Human flesh, Fijians have repeatedly 



JANUARY 1ST, 1864. 



