Tab. 4138 



solanum macranthum. 



Large-flowered Nightshade. 



Nat. Ord. SolanejE. — Pentandria Monogynia. 

 SOLANUM. {Vide supra Tab. 3954.) 



Solanum macranthum; caule arboreo aculeato, ramis lanatis, foliis amplis 

 late ovatis acuminatis profunde angulato-lobatis basi attenuatis sub- 

 sessilibus utrinque lanatis subtus praecipue aculeatis, racemis folio 

 multoties brevioribus subcymosis, pedicellis calycibusque 5-fidis lanatis 

 aculeatis, corolla ampla venosa. 



Solanum macranthum. Dun. Syn. Solan, p. 43. Roem. et Sch. Syst. 

 Veget. 4. p. 650. Spr. Syst. Veget. 1. p. 689. Walp. Repert. Dot. 

 v. 3. p. 88. 



A native of Brazil, and has been long cultivated in the 

 old stove of the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, where, 

 planted in the border, it has attained to the height of the 

 roof. In such a situation, it really makes a very handsome 

 appearance, with its ample foliage, and its large pale lilac- 

 coloured flowers, which, drooping as they do from the upper 

 branches, are seen to great advantage from below. To those 

 cultivators who have not space to allow its growing thus 

 freely, cuttings may be recommended, which strike freely, 

 and flower almost as soon as struck. — It is n. 800 of Mr. 

 Gardner's Brazilian collection. 



Descr. Arborescent, and, with us, attaining a height of 

 twelve or fourteen feet; much more, probably, in its native 

 country. Branches mostly at the top, spreading ; young ones 

 densely clothed with rusty green wool, and beset with copious, 

 very rigid aculei. Leaves ample, alternate, on very short 

 petioles, almost sessile, broadly ovato-acuminate, attenuated at 

 tile base, the margins deeply angulato-lobate, the lobes acute, 

 the surface strongly marked with copious reticulated veins, 

 downy above, more so, almost woolly beneath; the hairs 

 stellate and stipitate, as at f. l,the veins on both sides prickly, 

 the aculei larger and stronger below, especially on the costa. 



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