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(presertim versus marginem) pilis simplicibus rigidis dense 
vestita, hilo marginali. Embryo intra albumen carnosum 
arcuatus ; cotyledonibus semiteretibus ; radiculà tereti 
hilum spectante.—Herbæ Americe meridionalis puberule, 
diffuse, ramose, subscandentes; caule angulato, flexuoso, 
suffruticoso; ramis foliis oppositis. Folia solitaria, vel 
gemina, rarius terna, integra, in petiolum longum decur- 
rentia, Flores solitarii, albidi, vel lutei, siccitate nigricantes, 
pedunculati, demum cernui. Bacca rubra. 
$ I. Eusauricnroa. Corolla longe tubulosa, intus imo glabra. 
l. Salpichroa glandulosa. Atropa glandulosa. Hook. Bot. 
Misc. 2.230. Hook. Icon. 106; caule fruticoso, suberecto; 
foliis geminis, longe petiolatis, cordato-ovatis, glanduloso- 
pubescentibus, szepe incano-tomentosis ; calyce pubescente, 
profunde 5 partito, laciniis linearibus; corolla flava, longe 
tubulosa, staminibus styloque inclusis.— Pasco Peruvie. 
2, Salpichroa dependens. Atropa dependens. Hook. Icon. 107 ; 
caule suffruticoso, pendente; foliis geminis, cordato- 
ovatis, breviter petiolatis, fere glabris, subtus pallidis; 
calyce tubuloso, tenui, pubescente, 5 fido, demum fructifero 
subampliato hinc fisso; corolla longe tubulosa, stylo sta- 
minibusque exsertis.—Peruvia (Mathews, n. 829). 
3. Salpichroa hirsuta. Atropa hirsuta, Meyen (Riese um die 
Erde, 1, 466). Nees ab Esenb. (Nov. Act. 19, Suppl. 1, 389) ; 
caule suffruticoso, ramosissimo, diffuso; foliis geminis, 
subcordato-ovatis, longe petiolatis, calycibusque profunde 
5 partitis, hirsutis; corolla tubulosa, antheris cum styli 
apice exsertis,—Peruvia, circa Pisacomam, altitudine 15,000 
ped. 
This appears to be the same plant, of which many speci- 
mens exist in the herbarium of Sir William Hooker from 
Various localities, viz : 
: Pichincha (Jameson, n. 32), Pichincha (id. n. 301), Colum- 
bia (Hartweg, n. 1311) In these the stem is 4-angular, 
flexuose ; the leaves are solitary, geminate, and ternate, from 
