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short-peduncled, twice bifurcating, the fruiting branches at length 

 I — 1.5 dm. long, loosely fruited, in flower rather dense: pedicels 

 stout, in flow^er very short, in fruit i cm. long and strongly thick- 

 ened upward : calyx campanulate, 5-7 mm. long, the thick, trian- 

 gular-ovate acute or acutish lobes appressed, 3 mm. long and 

 broad, the shiuses of similar form and size : calyx-bud 6 mm. 



long, 4 mm. broad, obovoid with rounded apex : corolla-bud sub- 

 globose : corolla-tube very short, the lobes ovate : anthers 7 mm. 

 long, lanceolate, incurved at the apex : fruit depressed-globose, 

 1.2 cm. broad in the dried and wrinkled condition, smooth and 

 shining, apparently green at maturity. 



Mapiri, 5000 ft., April, 18S6 (no. J J I). 



A stout shrub, apparently in the Aculcatac, but prickles not 

 found upon the specimen. 



Species near S. dccoruui^ also near to Lechler's no. 21 18 from 

 Peru and Mathew's no. 3252. 



Solanum Lechleri sp. nov. 



Unarmed, stellate-tomentosc and gray, except the blackish 

 fruits and the dark-green upper leaf-surfaces which are rather 

 sparsely hairy, the hairs slightly stellate ; branches herbaceous : 

 petioles 1—2 cm. long, weak, narrowly margined above: blades 

 5—10 cm. long, 2.5—5 ^^^- bi'oad, owate from a broad, rounded to 

 sub-truncate base, acuminate, acute, entire, thin, the venation 

 sparse, slender and weak, crooked, pale, lightly prominent both 



sides : cymes terminal, on slender peduncles, in early flower 4 cm. 



broad, dense, the flowers drooping : pedicels 7—10 mm. long, 

 weak and slender: calyx 4-5 mm. long, lobed tw^o thirds of the 

 way, the lobes herbaceous, ovate, acutish, the sinuses broadly 

 triangular, acutish : corolla blue, a little more than i cm. broad 

 when expanded, deeply lobed, the lobes broadly ovate, obtuse : 

 anthers yellow, 3.5 mm. long, oblong, straight, the pores looking 

 inward and slightly towards one another: style nearly twice the 

 length of the anthers : the stigma small : fruit blackish, 7 mm. in 

 diameter. 



Yungas, 4000 ft., 1885 (no. 790). The same as Lechler's no. 



1939 and i^fide Britton) Mandon's no. 1106. 



Solanum pseudo-lycioides sp. nov. 



Glabrous and unarmed ; branches whitish, numerous, bearing 

 many short, divaricate, rigid and spine-like, at first leafy, branch- 

 lets an inch or two in length : leaves numerous, .5 to 2.5 cm. long, 

 2.5 to 5 mm. broad, oblong to oblanceolate, tapering into a very 



