slightly petiolate, more or less remote, with or without 
smaller ones between them, all of them pubescenti-tomen- 
tose, and often hoary. The pubescence is mixed with 
glands, which cause the plant to be somewhat clammy, and 
which yield a rather powerful odour. At the base of the 
etioles are small rounded stipules, one on each side. 
eduncle lateral (not axillary), bearing four to six corym- 
boso-racemose flowers, which are drooping. Peduncles and 
pedicels bracteated with bracteas resembling the stipules. 
Calyx not one third the size of the corolla, of five, lance- 
olate, spreading se its, two, or four of the segments often 
cohering in pairs, the margin and back pubescenti-hirsute. 
Corolla large, rotate, deep yellow, the segments reflected, 
waved, and margined, acuminate. Stamens five, united into 
a firm tube, and terminating in a hollow, horn-like process: 
anthers opening by two longitudinal clefts inwards, the 
whole resembling the stamens of the plants of the Class 
Syncenesia, only that here the short filaments as well as 
the stamens firmly cohere.° Pistil roundish, pubescent. 
Style longer than the stamens, filiform, hairy below, gla- 
brous above; Stigma globose. 
Raised in the Glasgow Botanic Garden from seeds sent by 
Mr. Cruicxsuangs from Valparaiso. It produced its blos- 
soms in the stove in November. Ruiz and Pavon tell us, 
that it is found in the provinces of Lima and Chancay, and 
Frvitiée observes, that it grows in the clefts of rocks on 
the shores of the sea. The fruit which we possess in the 
Herbarium is spherical, orange-red, about the size of a pea, 
and pubescent. In the dialect of the country the plant is 
called Tomatte cimaron, or Wild Golden Apple. Indeed, 
Sir JAMEs Smirx (see Ress’s Cyclop. article Sozanum 
Lyeopersicum) does not feel satisfied that it is distinct from 
the common Love Apple, or Tomato; but had he seen — 
living specimens of the two, he would, I think; have felt 
satislied of their being specifically different. Rozmer and 
Scuutres quote with a mark of doubt Jacgurn’s figure in 
the Icones Rariores, because Linnzus describes the leaves 
as being not interruptedly pinnate: but both kinds of 
leaves are often found on the same plant. 
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