lowish straight prickles. eaves sinuate-pinnatifid, with 
lobes sinuate-dentate, prickly on both sides along the 
nerves, and villous, but nevertheless shining deep green on 
the upper. Peduncles lateral, frequently opposite the 
leaves, hairy, viscous, and prickly, terminated in a few- 
flowered corymb: pedicles shorter than the calyx. Calyx — 
somewhat inflated, five-cleft, with lanceolate segments, 
prickly. (Baron Jacquin remarks, that in the sterile flowers 
the calyx is hairy, and in the fruitful flowers prickly). 
Corolla large, the size of that of the potatoe, white, with 
a very slight tinge of purple, filaments very short: anthers 
equal, yellow, distinct, not connivent. We have not seen 
the fruit, but Jacquin describes it as being orange red, and 
of the size and form of a cherry. ; ) 
This species belongs to a section to which Dunat has 
given the name of Cryprocarpum, from the fruit bemg 
covered by tne enlarged calyx. 
It has fallen to the lot of few species to undergo sucha 
variety of names. Besides the six inserted in the above 
synonymy, it is supposed that four others occur in the 
catalogues of different gardens, viz. formosum, mauri- 
tanum, Thouinii, and viscidum, making together ten 
names all applied to the same species, . the Soranum Bal- 
bist of Dunat. : at P gite 3 
Some of the above synonyms are of older date than 
Dunat’s, and have therefore the right of priority ; but as 
the latter has been adopted in the two general systems noW 
in course of publication, those of Roemer and ScHvUtLT#s, 
and of Sprencex, and will no doubt be preserved by Dé 
CanpDoLLE, any attempt to restore any of the others W 
be only increasing the confusion; we have therefore no! 
hesitated to follow Dunat, the author, under the auspice 
of De Canpotze, of a laborious and useful monograph 
Soxanum. We presume, however, to hope, that the pre 
ceptor when he revises the genus for his own system, ¥ u 
frame a better arrangement ; for the making the first div- 
sions depend upon so variable a character as the Inerm4 
_ and Aculeata, seems to us to be stumbling at the vey 
_ Native of South America. | Cultivated in the stové 
Flowers most part of the summer. 7 
The specimen from which our drawing was taken was 
communicated by A. B. Lampert, Esq. from his collectio™ 
at Boyton, in June 1815. : 
