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Soranum Tweepianum.~ Mr..Tweepir’s 
SoLanum. 
ERE EEREE ERE EKER 
Class and Order. 
Pentanpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Soranez. ) _ 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 5—10 partitus. Cor. subrotata, 4—10-fida. _An- 
there conniventes apice poro gemino dehiscentes. Bacca 
2, 3, 4-locularis, placentis septo adnatis. Semina glabra. 
Specific Name and Character. 
Sotanum Tweedianum ; pubescenti-viscidum, * caule her- 
baceo, foliis cordatis basi angulato-dentatis sublonge 
petiolatis, racemis umbellatis, floribus (inter majores) 
nutantibus. 
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Among the numerous species of Soranum which we have 
received from Mr. Tweepte, gathered near Buenos Ayres, 
is the present one, of which seeds were sent to the Glasgow 
Botanic Garden in 1833. It produced its conspicuous and 
lively flowers in the greenhouse in the month of October : 
these are of a purplish-white colour, with the projecting 
Stamens of a full orange. The foliage indeed has little to 
recommend it, being very similar to that of some of the 
Varieties of our S. nigrum. See 
Descr. Stem a foot and a half high, erect, rounded, 
branched, especially upwards, green tinged with purple, 
clothed with short and fine ciaday hairs. Leaves alter- 
Nate, upon footstalks of about the same length, cordate, 
rather acute, membranaceous, obtuse and somewhat unequal 
at the base, where, at the sides, they are sinuato-dentate ; 
© rest entire: the whole viscido-pubescent ; but ae so 
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