IX, C, 2 Merrill: The Plants of Guam 1389 
PHYSALIS ANGULATA Linn. Sp. Pl. (1753) 183; Safford 353. 
G. E. S. 386, McGregor 508, locally known as tomate chaca. 
Widely distributed in the tropics of both hemispheres, probably a native 
of tropical America. 
Mr. Safford records Physalis minima Linn. Sp. Pl. (1753) 183, from 
Guam (p. 353), under the same native name as indicated on the specimens 
I have referred to P. angulata Linn. I have seen no Guam material that 
I would refer to P. minima Linn., which is a very pubescent plant. I sus- 
pect that Mr. Safford’s Physalis angulata is the species I refer to P. lancei- 
folia, and his P. minima is the species I refer to P. angulata. 
SOLANUM Linnaeus 
SOLANUM NIGRUM Linn. Sp. Pl. (1753) 186. 
G. E. S. 438. 
Temperate and tropical regions of both hemispheres. 
SOLANUM MELONGENA Linn. Sp. Pl. (1758) 186; Safford 375. 
G. E. S. 31, locally known as berenghenas, commonly cultivated. 
Cultivated in all warm countries. 
SOLANUM GUAMENSE sp. nov. 
Frutex vel suffrutex erectus, ramosus, inerme, stellato-tomen- 
tosus; foliis valde inaequalibus, ovatis ad elliptico-ovatis, integris 
vel obscure repandis, obtusis vel acutis, minoribus 1 ad 3 cm 
longis, majoribus 4.5 ad 12 cm longis; inflorescentiis axillaribus 
extra-axillaribusque, circiter 4 cm longis, paucifloris, dichotomis, 
floribus 5-meris circiter 12 mm diametro, pedicellatis; fructibus 
carnosis, globosis, glabris, circiter 6 mm diametro. 
An erect shrub or undershrub, or at least suffrutescent, 
branched, the branches terete, 83 to 4 mm in diameter, dark- 
colored when dry, older ones glabrous, the internodes short, the 
younger ones densely stellate-pubescent with straw-colored or 
grayish indumentum. Leaves exceedingly variable in size, al- 
ternate or the small ones subfasciculate, chartaceous, in general 
ovate to elliptic-ovate, uniformly and rather densely stellate- 
pubescent on the lower surface, less densely pubescent on the 
upper surface, the indumentum pale or straw-colored, the apex 
blunt or acute, the margins entire or in the larger leaves ob- 
scurely repand, the base broadly rounded to somewhat acute, 
usually slightly inequilateral; larger leaves 5.4 to 12 cm long, 3.5 
to 8 cm wide, the lateral nerves 4 to 6 on each side of the midrib, 
distinct, laxly anastomosing, the petioles stellate-pubescent, 1 
to 3.5 em long; smaller leaves 1 to 3 cm long and about as wide. 
Inflorescence axillary and extra-axillary, stellate-tomentose, 
cymose, rather lax, 3 to 4 cm long, dichotomous, rather many- 
flowered. Flowers 5-merous. Calyx funnel-shapped, 2.5 mm 
long and about as wide at the throat, pubescent, the teeth 
