( 1874 ) 
SoLANDRA GRANDIFLORA. GREAT-FLOWERED | 
SoLaANDRA. 
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Class and Order. 
PentAnpria Monoeynia. 
Generic Character. 
Cal. rumpens. Cor. clavato-infundibuliformis, maxinta, 
Bacca 4-locularis, polysperma. : ; 
Specific Name and Synonyms. 
- Soxanpra grandiflora. Swart? Act. Holm. 1787. p. 300. 
t. 11. Flor. Ind. Occid. 1. p: 387. t. 9. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. 
p. 936. Hort. Kew. alt. 1. p.388. Jacq. Hort. Schenbr. 
1. p. 21. t. 45. Salish. in Act. Soc. Lin. 99. t. 6. Mart. 
Mill. Dict. Meen Exot. Bot. t. 6. : 
Datura sarmentosa. Lamarck Ill. n. 2295. 
Srramonium scandens flore luteo. Plum. Ic. ined. 
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Sotanpra grandiflora with us is a fine climbing stove 
shrub, with large shining laurel-like leaves, and magnificent 
flower, of a cream-colour and agreeable scent. In Jamaica, 
where it is indigenous, the flowers are of a pale flesh-colour, 
and the shrub is called the Peach-blossomed Trumpet-flower : 
cultivated in the stove at Vienna, according to Jacquin ; the 
inside of the tube is tinged with purple, but the flower is 
otherwise white ; from whence it would appear, that it re- 
quires a greater intensity of light to bring out the red colour. 
So the fruit, which is a conical white berry the size of a hen’s 
egg, is filled with a red pulp in the West-Indies, which was 
white at Vienna; with us we have not heard that it has ever 
produced any ripe fruit, except perhaps in Mr. Saxisgury’s 
garden at Mill-HilJ, who describes the pulp as green, 
