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SoLANUM CORIACEUM. CoRIACEOUS 
SoLANUM. 
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Class and Order. 
PenrANDRiA Monoeynta. 
( Nat. Ord.—Soxanacea. ) 
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. 
a oe ee me m. 
SoLanum coriaceum; inerme, fruticosum, glabrum, foliis 
petiolatis oblongis coriaceis nitidis integris subvenosis, 
pedunculis terminalibus sub-unifloris, corolla 5-loba, 
lobis obtusissimis plicatis mucronulatis, calyce 4-par- 
tito. 
Descr. At present, in our collection, one individual of 
this plant has only attained the height of a foot. It is rigid, 
erect, much branched, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves two 
to three inches long, somewhat acute at the extremity, at 
the base pa i into a short footstalk, the texture thick 
and coriaceous, the surface very we veined, the margin 
quite entire. The flowers are upon short simple, or imper- 
fectly branched terminal peduncles. Calyx of four dees 
segments, spreading, the lower evidently formed of two, 
cohering at the margin. Corolla varying in size, sometimes 
an inch across, almost plane, of a beautiful purplish-blue 
colour, five-lobed, the lobes waved at the margin, longitu- 
dinally plicate in the middle, very obtuse and mucronated 
at the extremity. Stamens: Filaments and Anthers short : 
the latter deep orange. Germen ovate: Style longer than 
the stamens. ee i e 
