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SoLANUM FRAGRANS. FraGrant Sours 
AMERICAN NIGHTSHADE. 
SER E EK EKEEEE EEE EEE EEK 
Class and Order. 
PentranpriA Monoeynia. 
‘ ( Nat. Ord. —Sotanez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. monophyllus, persistens. Cor. monopetala, rotata. 
Anthere oblong, apice poris duobus dehiscentes. Bacca 
bi- tri-quadrilocularis. : 
Specific Name and Character. 
Soranum fragrans ; arborescens, foliis geminis ovatis cor- 
datisve inequalibus integerrimis, racemis solitariis ex 
axillis ramorum, floribus secundis pedicellis inferio- 
ribus maxime elongatis, calyce 5-fido, corollis lato- 
campanulatis profunde 5-partitis, limbo reflexo, stami- 
nibus geniculatis, stigmate dilatato concavo. 
This extremely curious Soranum was sent from South 
Brazil by Mr. Tweep1e, to the Glasgow Botanic Garden. 
It grew rapidly, but for the first two years showed no dispo- 
sition to flower in a pot, when it was removed into a border 
in the great stove, where it soon reached a height of twelve 
to fourteen feet, and in the month of June produced its 
singular racemes of changeable coloured flowers, the fra- 
grance of which is peculiarly powerful and agreeable. I 
can find no description of a Soranum which agrees with it ; 
but there is, in Dr. Scoomsurex’s collection from Guiana, a 
species which comes near to it, but there the calyx is almost 
entire ; the segments of the corolla are not reflexed nor 
glabrous, and the stamens are very different. 
Descr. Stem erect, arborescent, twelve or —— 
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