SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS. 349 
in consistence; the petiole is about 3 in. long, fleshy, round 
beneath, flat above, with a somewhat broad decurrent ciliated 
margin ; the leaves are generally ternate, and the united bases 
of the foot-stalks give a knotty form to the axils, which are 
about 3 in. apart. The number of peduncles and bracts gene- 
rally correspond with that of the leaves. It may be doubted 
whether the slender leaflets seen in the axils should be consi- 
dered as bracts or stipules, neither of which organs are usually 
met with in the Solanaceous group of plants; but I have 
adopted the view of Sir Wm. Hooker, who considers them as 
bracts, which is justified by the circumstance of their being 
always seen rather within the line of the petioles; they are 
linear, slender at base, about 1} in. long, swelling at the ex- 
tremity into a spathulate blade, with a long cuspidate point. 
The peduncles are round, rather slender, about 14 in. long, 
somewhat erect, 1-flowered. The calyx is persistent, swelling 
about the torus, somewhat membranaceous above, and divided 
into 5 equal, long, tapering, erect segments, furnished with 
long articulate pubescence. The corolla is of a lurid cream- 
colour below the border, which is white, both externally and 
within, where it is covered with woolly tomentum; the tube 
is funnel-shaped, rather more than } in. long, the border 
being divided into 5 rather acute, expanding lobes, which are 
Somewhat plicate at base; the anthers are almost sessile, and 
fixed by their base below the mouth of the corolla, they are 
deeply 2-lobed and laterally compressed, so that they stand 
. out in a circular ring around the stigma, they are of a lurid 
green, and burst in front somewhat laterally by a longitudinal 
fissure, throwing out a yellowish-coloured pollen. Mhe ova- 
rium is globular, somewhat flattened at the summit, and 
divided into 2, 3, or 5 indistinct lobes. The style is erect, 
cylindrical, somewhat enlarging at its extremity. The stigma is 
. Oblong, cordate at base, tapering, obtuse at apex, formed of 2 
indistinct flattened adnate lobes, fleshy, green, and shining. 
The berry is cernuous, fleshy, and 2-celled ; the seeds are flat- 
tened, reniform, subrhomboidal, with a marginal hilum; the 
testa is somewhat fleshy and rugous; the embryo is slender, 
