Tas. 7062. 
SOLANUM pensixe. 
Native of South America. 
Nat. Ord. SonranacEz.—Tribe SoLanER. 
Genus Soranum, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pi. vol. ii. p. 888.) 
Sonanum pensile ; scandens, sarmentosum, inerme, ramulis teretibus pubescenti- 
tomentosis, foliis ovatis v. ovato-cordatis acutis v. obtuse acuminatis 
glaberrimis supra lucidis, panicule pendule ramis simplicibus elongatis 
divaricato-recurvis multifloris, pedicellis breviusculis, calycis hemispherici 
dentibus minutis, corolla ample violacew extus puberule laciniis lineari- 
bus recurvis apicibus incurvis, filamento unico ceteris duplo longiore, 
antheris consimilibus linearibus poris minutis terminalibus dehiscentibus, 
ovario conico glabro, stylo puberulo, bacca globosa violacea glabra, semi- 
nibus lentiformibus. 
8S. pensile, Sentdnsin Mart. Fl. Bras fase. vi. Solan. p. 50; Dunal in DC. 
Prodr, vol. xiii. pt. i. pp. 84 and 679. 
S. letum, Miquel Stirp. Surinam. 139 (non Kunze). 
S. sempervirens, Dunal 7. c. p. 88. 
S. pendulum, Link mss. (non Ruiz. §& Pav.). 
S. scandens, Schomb. mss. 
S. amethystinum, Poiteau mss. 
Witheringia pendula, Rem. & Sch. Syst. vol. iii. p. 422. 
Though botanically a well-known species, this lovely 
plant was unknown to gardens till sent to Kew in 1887 
from the George Town (Demerara) Botanical Gardens by 
Mr. Jenman. It belongs to a section of the genus aptly 
called Subdulcamara by Dunal, the general resemblance of 
the species to the common 8S. dulcamara of our hedges 
being very obvious, the chief difference from the true 
Dulcamare being in the inflorescence, which in the latter 
is axillary or alar and corymbose, whereas in S. pensile and 
its allies it is terminal and panicled. 
S. pensile is a native of English, Dutch, and French 
Guiana. It has also been found on the Amazons River 
from Para up to the Solimoes River, a branch of the 
Amazons, by Spruce. There are also specimens in the 
Kew Herbarium from Miers gathered in the Organ 
Mountains (Rio de Janeiro), where, however, it may have 
June lst, 1839. 
