Tas. 7683. 
CYPHOMANDRA BETACEA. 
N. Grenada and Peru. 
Nat. Ord. SoLanacea.—Tribe SoLaNnE&. 
Genus CyrHomanpra, Sendén.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 889.) 
CrpHomanpra betacea; arbuscula molliter pubescens, contusa odore ingrato, 
caule superne ramoso, cortice pallido, ramis crassis, foliis amplis longe 
petiolatis 4-8 poll. longis ovato-cordatis acuminatis mollibus supra luride 
viridibus subtus pallidis, nervis utrinque coste 5-9 subtus prominulis 
pallide purpureis, petiolo 4-12 poll. longo crassiusculo tereti, cymis seepius 
supra- vel extra-alaribus corymbiformibus laxe di- tri-chotome ramosis, 
peduneulo valido petiolo breviore viridi, floribus longiuscule pedicellatis, 
pedicellis flexuosis fructiferis elongatis crassis, calyce parvo crateriforme 
5-lobo, lobis rotundatis, corolla pollicem diametro rutato-campanulata alba 
roseo pallide tincta, segmentis lanceolatis recurvis, filamentis brevibus, 
antheris oblongis corolla dimidio brevioribus, stylo brevi columnari, 
stigmate simplici, bacca carnosa 2-3-pollicari ovoidea flavida v. aurea 
rubro-tincta 2-loculari polysperma, seminibus orbicularibus compressis. 
C. betacea, Senditn. in Flora, vol. xxviii. (1845) p. 172, t. 1; et in Mart. 
Fl. Bras. vol. x. p. 119. Dunal in DC. Prodr. vol. xiii. pars i. p. 393. 
Morris in Gard. Chron. 1884, vol. i. p. 510; 1887, vol. i. -p. 386, fig. 77; 
1899, vol. i. p. 15, fig. 104 (the Kew plant). Journ. Hortic, ser. 3, vol. 
xxxi. p. 470. Kew Bulletin, Aug. 1887, p.2. Maiden in Agric. Gazette 
N.S. Wales, vol. v. (1894) p. 214, ewm ie. : 
Soranum betaceum, Cav. Ic. vol. vi. p. 15, t. 524. Anal. Hist. Nat. Madr. vol. i. 
(1799) p. 44. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. ii. vol. i. p. 400. Dunal, Hist. Solan. 
p. 169. Andrews, Bot. Rep. vol. viii. t. 511. Rev. Hortic. 1880, p. 150; 
1881, p. 470. 
8. crassifolium, Ortega, Hort. Matr. Dee. ix. p. 117. 
8. obliqnum, Bert. in Herb. DC. ex Dunal in DC. Prodr. Lc. 
PIoNANDRA betacea, Miers in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. iv. (1845) p. 358. 
Cyphomandra betacea is the Tomate de la Paz of 
Mexico and Central America, known also as the Tree 
Tomato and Vegetable Mercury in the West Indies, the 
latter name being given for the real or supposed value of 
the fruit in relieving disorders of the liver. It is a native 
of New Grenada, and Peru, whence it has been intro- 
duced into other parts of tropical and sub-tropical 
S. America, the West Indies, Spain, and, of late years, 
into India, China, Australia, and S. Africa. Its ex- 
tended cultivation is due to the facility with which it 
is grown, adapting itself to many soils and climates, to 
the great beauty of its abundantly produced edible fruits, 
NovemBER -lst, 1899, 
