Tap. 7491. 
SOLANUM cernuvm. 
Native of South Brazil. 
Nat. Ord. Sonanacem.—Tribe SoLane&. 
Genus Sonanum, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 888.) 
Soranum (Pachystemonum) cernuwm; arbuscula orgyalis, candice valido 
erecto apice ramoso ramis crassis petiolis costa foliorum subtus cymzque 
ramis ramulisque pilis flexuosis brunneis undique dense crinitis, foliis 
amplis oblongis obovatisve acuminatis marginibus undulatis basi rotun- 
datis in petiolum brevem crassum angustatis supra levibus nervis utrinque 
6-10, marginibus undulatis, subtus nervosis tomentoso-leprosis albido- 
- spadiceis, junioribus utrinque sparse stellato-pubescentibus, racemis 
suboppositifoliis decurvis pedunculo brevi ramisque crassis, floribus 
confertis brevissime pedicellatis pollicem diametro albis, calyce brevi 
subcampanulato inequaliter 4-5 lobo post anthesin inflato baccam 
tegente, lobis ovatis obtusis stellatim pilosis, corolla 5-partita, antheris 
ates poris introrsum spectantibus, ovario apice piloso, bacca globosa 
irsuta. 
S. cernuum, Velloz. Fl. Flum. p. 84, Ill. vol. ii. t. 103. Mart. Reise, vol. i. 
p- 282; Syst. Mat. Med. Veg. Bras. p.10. Sendtn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 
vol. x. p. 42. 
S. paleatum, Schott mss. in Herb. Vind. n. 5419.: 
S. jubatum, Dunal mss. in Herb. Banks ex DC. Prodr, vol. xiii. pars. i. p. 132. 
Wawra Bot. Reis. Pr. Saxe-Coburg, vol. i. t. 66. 
A very-singular looking plant, from its stout habit and 
the dense clothing of long flexuous chaffy, sometimes 
secund hairs resembling the fur of an animal, and giving 
rise to the Portuguese name of Bolsa de Pastor, or 
** Braco de Preguiga,”’ arm of the ant-eater, It is a native 
of the provinces of Rio and Minas Geraes, growing in stony 
soil in the deciduous forests, and is a reputed sudorific of 
the Brazilian Pharmacopcea. The drawing here reproduced 
gives no idea of the size and robustness which the branches 
and petioles attain, or the length and breadth of the leaves, 
es of the cymes, which are sometimes as large as the 
st. | : 
Dunal in De Candolle’s Prodromus, adopted jubatum, a 
ms, name of his own, for this plant, in place of the earlier 
cernuum Of Vellozo, and this though Vellozo’s had been 
taken up by Martius and by Sendtner. Dunal gives as 
his only reason that Vellozos’s name was not sufficiently 
Aveust Ist, 1896, 
