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molliter piloso; folis alternis, vel geminatis, altero subminori, 
oblongis, grosse sinuato-dentatis, lobis obtusiusculis, utrinque 
pilis articulatis molliter hirsutis; margine ciliatis, rachi nervisque 
prominulis, imo in petiolum elongatum anguste decurrentibus ; 
peduneulo bifloro, petiolo 3-plo breviore, pedicellis æquilongis, 
calyceque dense pilosis, corolla fere glabra, sicco lutea, limbi lobis 
acutis, staminibus vix exsertis.—Peruvia, Prov. Chachapoyas. 
~ v. 8. in herb. meo (Mathews). 
= This species corresponds much in habit with the figure of 
H. biflorus (Atropa biflora) of the Flora Peruviana, but it is alto- 
gether covered with soft articulated down, and the leaves are 
larger, more sinuosely lobed, and with a much longer petiole. 
The leaves are four inches and a quarter long, by two inches and 
a half wide, the petiole being one inch and a half long; the 
peduncle measures only four lines, the pedicels are of the same 
length, the calyx three lines, and the corolla, tubular below, five- 
nerved, smooth, with a five-lobed expanded border, altogether six 
lines long. It differs from H. mollis, in having much smaller 
leaves, less hirsute, with infinitely shorter inflorescence. 
PŒCILOCHROMA. 
I propose to distinguish under this name a very distinct group 
of Solanaceous plants, all natives of the Valleys of the Andes of 
intertropical America. The type is the Saracha punctata of the 
Flora Peruviana. They are distinguished from that genus m 
being frutescent. shrubs or trees, not herbaceous plants, in their 
leaves being generally thick, fleshy, shining, and more or less 
destitute of pubescence, and their much larger corolla, not rotate, 
but decidedly campanulate, of much thicker consistence, often 
fleshy, and ‘generally marked with beautiful spots, whence the 
derivation of its name, from rodos, variegatus, xpepa, color. It 
is distinguished from Hebecladus and Zochroma, by its much 
smaller, glabrous, fleshy leaves, by its campanulate corolla, with 
an expanded pentangular border, not tubular and five-lobed, as in 
those genera: from Cleochroma it differs in the form of its corolla, 
and in its calyx not becoming considerably enlarged with the — 
