January 25, 1908] A Century or New PLANTS ` $42 
cymes; pedicels recurved, 1 cm. long, slender, densely cov- 
ered, with a rusty brown tomentum; calyx thick, similarly 
pubescent, 4 mm. long, about as wide across the top, tur- 
binate, margin truncate, with 4 apiculate teeth arising a 
trifle below the rim, the longest teeth about 1 mm. - eorolla 
7 mm. long, 4-lobed, united at the base into a shorts tube, 
the segments oblong, glabrous except along the upper margin 
and back of. the apex, rather coriaceous, its edges involute 
and with a. thick inflexed apical point, 5 mm. long, obtuse; 
the 4 filaments broadly winged, 2 mm. long, projected at 
the apex into short 3-winged lobes; anthers ovately oblong, 
2 mm. wide toward the base, 4 mm, long; ovary columnar, 
2 mm. long, glabrons; styles 2, straight, 1.5 mm, long, bearing 
finely sulcate stigmatic portions. 
Type specimen 9425, A. D. E. Elmer, Los Baños, Prov- 
ince of Laguna, Luzon, April, 1906. It can neither be re- 
ferred to S. parasiticum Blm. nor to S. blumei Nees and Blm., 
and is distinguished from its nearest ally, banahaense Elm. 
by its larger leaves, poh flowers and with corolla tube 
very much shorter. 
Solanum retrorsum n. sp.— Shrubby, 1 m. high, rather 
finely branched; the branchlets when. young stellately pubes- 
cent but soon turning glabrous brown, densely set with 
sharp retrorse straw colored 5 mm. long spines. Leaves flat, 
subglabrous. when mature or only the paler green upper 
surface dotted with ashy gray stellate hairs, alternately sċat- 
tered along the stems and branches, very variable in size, 
lanceolate, 9 cm. long by 3 cm. wide, both ends equally 
acuminate pointed, about 5 to 7-nerved on each side; pet- 
ioles 1 to 2 cm. long, usually provided with a stellate 
pubescence. Inflorescence densely clothed with stellate hairs, 
cymosely paniculate, terminal or lateral, usually those at 
the former place in flower while the lower ones are in 
fruit; the fruiting stalk about 3 cm. long and ascending; 
pedicels comparatively dense pubescent, 3 to 5 mm. long or 
much longer, recurved; calyx turbinate, leathery, 4 mm. long, 
the 5 acute or acuminate, segments about one half as long, 
densely pubescent with yellowish gray stellate hairs; petals 
5, greenish — yellow, rotately. spreading or reflexed, about .6 
