common to several American species. The purple fruit is 

 sometimes as large as a cherry. 



Descr. — Whole plant, except the corolla and ovary, more 

 or less pubescent, with simple and gland-tipped hairs. 

 Stem branched, woody at the base. Leaves soft, poly- 

 morphous as described above, obtuse or acute, pale yellow- 

 green, base acute, rounded or sub-cordate ; nerves many, 

 strong. Cymes terminal or on short, lateral branchlets, 

 umbelliform, shortly peduncled; pedicels slender, one to 

 one and a half inch long, spreading, decurved. Calyx 

 small, campanulate, green, lobes triangular-ovate, obtuse. 

 Corolla an inch to an inch and a half broad, between rotate 

 and campanulate, limb five-angled or very shortly and 

 broadly five-lobed, pale purple, base with five orbicular, 

 white spots, each with a green centre. Filaments short, 

 hairy ; anthers linear-oblong, dehiscing throughout their 

 length. Ovary quite glabrous ; style filiform. Berry 

 globose, purple. — J. D. E, 



Fig. 1, portioTi of branch with simple and glandular hairs ; 2, calyi ; 3, base 

 of corolla, and stamens ; 4, ovary -.—all enlarged ; 5, fruit of nat. size. 



