Tas. 7945. 
SOLANUM Gtavcopnyiium, 
Native of South Brazil and Uruguay. 
Nat. Ord. Souanacex.—Tribe Sonanea. 
Genus Sotanvy, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 888.) 
Sotanum glaucophyllum ; frutex erectus, pluricanlis, usque ad 6 ped. altus, 
fere omnino glaber, caulibus rectis subsimplicibus glaucis, ramulis fracti- 
feris demum rubescentibus, internodiis quam foliis multoties brevioribus, 
foliis deciduis petiolatis crassiusculis glaucis lineari-lanceolatis szpins 
cum petiolo 4-8 poll. longis utrinque attenuatis acutis venis immersis 
inconspicuis, floribus roseo-purpureis circiter 1 poll. diametro in eymas 
laterales laxas 5-6 poll. latas dispositis, bracteis minutis cito deciduis, 
pedicellis graciliusculis curvatis, calycis parvi lobis rotundatis apiculatis 
ciliolatis, corolle subcampanulate lobis ovatis apiculatis incurvis extus 
leviter puberulis, antheris aurantiacis pulverulentis, ovario glabro, stylo 
what sequante, fructa oblongo-ovoideo 9-10 lin. longo purpureo- 
violaceo. 
&. glaucophyllum, Desf: Cat. Hort. Par. ed. 3 (1829), p. 396. 
8. glaucum, Dun. in DC. Prodr. vol. xiii. (1852), pars1, p. 100. Bertol. Mise 
Bot. vol. xii. p. 46. Belg. Hortic. vol. iii. (1853), p. 165, eum fig. color. 
Betifreund, Fl. Argent. vol. iii. t. 152. 
8. glaucophyllum et 8S. glaucum, hortulanorum, fide Dun, in DQ. Prod. loc. 
cit. 
Solanum glaucophyllum was cultivated in Paris three- 
quarters of a century ago, and it was described, though 
not very fully, by Desfontaines, in the publication referred 
to above. Dunal, when preparing his monograph for the 
** Prodromus,” seems to have been unaware that a descrip- 
tion of the plant had appeared, and chose the shorter of 
two names then current in gardens. 
A year later Prof. Ch. Morren figured and described it 
_In the “ Belgique Horticole,” where he attributes its intro- 
duction, in 1833, to the botanist Gaudichaud; but most 
probably it was originally introduced by Auguste de Saint- 
Hilaire, who travelled in South America between 1816 and 
1821, and was apparently the first to discover this species. 
The only wild specimen in the Kew Herbarium is of his 
collecting, and from Uruguay. It is also recorded from 
South Brazil and the Argentine Republic. 
It is singular that such a very attractive Solanum should 
have scarcely become known outside of botanic gardens 
Marcu Isr, 1904. 
