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glaucous hue, and covered with fine, stellate pubescence, the nervures and veins' heing slender and little 
prominent; the eaJyx and corolla externally are scabridlv pubescent, the anthers. are long, linear, connivent, 
and thrcc-fodi-tha the length of the corolla. 
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702. SoLANUM scabrum, Valil, Dc Cand. Prodr. vol. xiii. p. 216. In savauas^ common all over 
the Isthmus. 
703. SohATiVM palinacanthum, Dim. in Dc Cand. Prodr. vol. xiii. p. 245. Volcano of Chiriqui, 
Veraguas. 
Aculei dcnsissime patentes vel retrorsi, apice aciculares, in caule creberrimi, in foliia utrin^ue sparsi. 
704. SoLAXUM mammosum, Linn., De Cand. Prodr. vol. xiii. p. 250. — Komen vernacnl. "Una 
dc gato." Savanas about Panama. 
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Densissirac hirsutum, pilis simplicibus patentibus vel retrorsis. IPolia 2f poll, longa, 2f lata ; petiolus 
If poll. Calyx fere ad basini S-partitus, laciuiis linearibus pilis retrorsis vestitus. Corolla violacea, seg~ 
mentis lancoolatia. Aiitlicrce liucari-obloiiga;, apice attenuato-rostrata;, 2-porosce. SUgma parvum, 2-lobum. 
705. SoLANUM torvum, Sw., De Cand. Prodr. vol. xiii. p. 260. In sunny places, common over 
the "svhole country. 
This is probablj" only a variety of tto above widely-spread and cosmopolitan species ; it is almost un- 
armed, very few sliorfc spines being seen upon tlie stenilets ; it is wbolly tomentose, not scabrid. The leaves 
are from four to five inches long, 3^ to 4 inches broad, on a petiole of 1 to 1^ inch in length ; they are ge- 
minate, one being somewhat smaller ; both sides are ochreously tomentose, with fine soft stellated hairs ; 
above they are more smoothly velutinons, with immersed nervures, below they are paler, with raised nerves 
and reticulated veins, and covered with woolly tomentum ; the panicle springs out of the stem midway be- 
tween the axils, is bi- or trl-fidly branched near the base of the peduncle, and is 2 inches long j the pedicels 
are 5 linoid long in flower, 7 lines in fruit ; the flowers are 5 to G lines in diameter. 
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706. SoLA\UM ovalifolium, H. 15. IC, De Cand, Prodr, xiii. p. 2G9. Town of Davidj Veraguas. 
707. SoLANUM Quiio'ense, Lam., Dc Cand, Prodr, vol. xiii. p. 352. — Nomcn vcmacnl. "Naranjita 
de Quito." In savanas, common over the whole Isthmus. 
'The leaves are 18 inches long, and 13|- inches broad, on a thick petiole 2^ inches in length. 
708. SoLANUM escukntum, Dun., De Cand. Prodx. vol. xiii. p. 355. Cultivated in the gardens 
of Panama.' 
709. Cypho^iaxdra beiacea, Sendtn. Flor. Bras. fasc. vi, 119. — Dim. in De Cand. Prodi-, vol. xiii, 
p. 393. — Pionandra hetacea, Miers, 111. So. Am. PI. i. 38. — Solanum betaceum, Cav. Icon. tab. 524, — 
Nomcn vernacul, '^ilonca." Between Mesa and Santiago de Vcragnas. 
710. PioxANDRA* allojjht/IIa, Micrs, n. sp. ; suffi-utlcosa^ glahcrrima, dichotome ramosa, dicho- 
* The genus C/jpliomandra of Dr. Scndtncr {Pionandra, ]VIiers) comprises two distinct forms, which are 
characterized und;-r the sectional names of Oeratoslemon and Eutlii/stemon, in 111. So. Amer. PI. vol. i. pp. 
34, 41 ; ia the former sometimes one, generally both, of the geminate leaves are cordate, the anther-ceUs 
are greatly arcuated and incurved, transversely verrucalose, and partially hurst by longitudinal slits, and tlie 
rounded glandiform apes opens by two lateral pores cleft lengthways ; they are adnate to a broad fleshy 
gibbous connective, continuous with the short, broad, and fleshy filaments, which are suddenly geniculated 
and recurved ui the middle, sometimes auriculated above, and are seated upon a free, annular, fleshy ring, 
