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OXYPETALUM sotanorpkEs. 
Solanum-like Oxypetalum. 
Nat. Ord. AscLEPIADE#.—PENTANDRIA DiGyNIA. 
Gen. Char. Cal. 5-partitus, sepalis lanceolatis acutis. Corolla tubo campanu- 
lato brevi; limbo 5-fido v. 5-partito, laciniis lanceolatis v. ligulatis patulis v. 
reflexis, preefloratione dextrorsum torta. Corona staminea 5-phylla, foliolis tubo 
adnatis retusis marginatis y. bifidis, introrsum nudis v. denticulo v. callo auctis. 
Anthere membrana terminate. Masse pollinis oblonge vy. obovate v. raro 
basi attenuate, processubus geniculatis appendicula dentiformi arrecta nigra 
auctis.  Stigmatis corpusculum lineare, planiusculum. Stigma acuminatum, 
acumine elongato bipartito, ramis seepius divaricatis. Folliculi leves v. spinis 
innocuis contortis onusti. Semina comosa.—Suftrutices Americe tropice, Bra- 
silienses, v. Chilenses, volubiles, v. herbe erecta, foliis oppositis sepius pubescentibus, 
pedunculis interpetiolaribus brevibus paucifloris, floribus majusculis interdum 
suaveolentibus, azureis, albis, ochroleucis v. virentibus. Desne. 
OxyPETALUM solancides ; caule subsimplici erecto pubescente, foliis lanceolatis 
v. oblongo-cordatis mucronatis acutis utrinque tomentosis petiolatis, pedun- 
culis terminalibus v. extra-axillaribus corymboso-paniculatis plurifioris, 
coroll laciniis ovato-acuminatis patentibus, corone stam. foliolis longe 
exsertis apice alte bifidis laciniis linearibus obtusis divaricato-lyratis, anther. 
membranis obtusis, stigmate longiusculo bifido, “folliculis lineari-oblongis 
incano-tomentosis.”  Desne. 
OxyPEtatum solanoides. Hook. et Arn. Bot. of Beechey’s Voy. p.289. Decaisne 
in De Cand. Prodr. v. 8. p. 586. 
Scnizostemma longifolium.  Decaisne, Etud. Asclep. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 1838. 
p. 344. 
A pretty greenhouse plant, native of Rio de la Plata and 
South Brazil, with much the habit of O. c@ruleum, Desne. 
(Zweediea versicolor, Bot.Mag. t.3630) ; but the flowers are not 
quite so large, nor are they of that bright tint which gives the 
charm to that favourite shrub. The present species blossoms 
during the summer months. 
Descr. A shrub or under-shrub, with slightly branched stems, 
weak, and with somewhat of a climbing character, everywhere 
clothed with a close, villous tomentum. Leaves oblong-cordate, 
TMucronate, with a deep sinus between the lobes at the base, 
about equal in length to the petiole; the upper ones gradually 
APRIL Ist, 1848. 
