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192 RusBV : South American Plants 



slightly laterally : style decidedly longer than the anthers, thick- 

 ened upward, the capitate stigma large : fruit red, globose, 6 mm. 



broad. 



Junction of Rivers Beni and Madre de Dios, Aug., 1886 (no. 



Jj6). No. 809, from Guanai, 2000 ft., May, 1886, is apparently 

 the same as is Bang's no. 2514. 



The species is near ^. lictcrophylluin^ and apparently includes 



Jenman's no. 1 125. 



(Sec. Licrnics,) 



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Solanum lilacinum sp. nov. 



Unarmed, apparently herbaceous, sparsely stellate-pubescent, 

 the lower leaf surfaces softly pubescent, pale or grayish, the up- 

 per strigose, roughish, dark-green : branchlcts widely spreading, 

 flexuous, angled : petioles 1-2 cm. long, narrowly margined above, 

 weak ; blades .5-1 dm. long, 3-5 cm, broad, ovate, acute, the base 

 rounded to sub-truncate, slightly produced into the petiole, inae- 

 quilateral, entire-margined, thin: peduncles 2-4 cm. long: cymes 

 6-8 cm. broad, rather dense : pedicels slender, .5-1 cm. long, re- 

 flexed in fruit: calyx-tube turbinate, 2 mm. long and broad, 5- 



nerved, the lobes a little more than i mm. lung, triangular-ovate, 

 acutish, the sinuses larger, acute or obtuse : corolla light-blue, 

 rotate or reflexed, T-1.2 cm. broad, lobed about halfway, the 

 lobes triangular, acute : filaments slender, I mm. long, the anthers 

 yellow, 3 mm. long, linear-oblong, straight, the pores large, look- 

 ing Inward and very sliglitl}' upward : st}^le 2 mm. longer than 

 stamens: the stigma slightly elongated : fruit dard-red (?) smooth, 

 5-6 mm. in diameter. 



Unduavi, 8000 ft., Oct., 1885 (no. 779). Bang^s no. 2023 



seems to be a smoother form of the same, and Mandon's no. 409 



appears to be of this species, though it differs greatly in the size of 



the leaves. 



The species is very near S. Gayajium (Rcmy) Pliil. 



Solanum actaeabotrys sp. nov. 



Indumentum stellate-tomentose, very dense and short, rough- 

 ish, the upper leaf surface stellate-scabrous, the fruit glabrous : 

 branches woody, stout, terete, flexuous : petioles (the upper only 

 seen) 2.5 cm. long, 5 mm. thick: blades 1.5-2.5 dm. long, 1-1.5 

 dm. broad, ovate to oval, inaequilateral, especially at the rounded 

 or subcordate base, blunt or rounded at the apex, entire or ob- 

 scurely repand at the margin, thick, gray-ferruginous underneatli, 

 above ferruginous when young, becoming dark -green : cyme 



