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ation of the lateral fissure : each anther is deeply 2-lobed at its 

 base, and is attached at the bottom of its dorsal groove to the 

 apex of a sigmoid-shaped filament, which crosses it abruptly to the 

 front, so that the anther appears fixed astride upon it : the fila- 

 ments are short and closely surround the ovary, they are com- 

 pressed, somewhat broad, deeply channelled, being often enlarged 

 in the middle by two auricular erect margins ; they are j oined 

 together by a narrow, fleshy, annular ring, which is united by 

 its base to the foot of the corolla. The calyx is formed of five 

 lanceolate, acute leaflets distinct nearly to its base, which con- 

 sists of a small inverted cup, having five saccate cavities alterna- 

 ting with the segments; these segments are at first expanded, 

 but after the fall of the corolla they collapse, increase consider- 

 ably in size, become yellowish, reticular, and more membra- 

 naceous in texture; their margins approximate and turn out- 

 wards, thus forming a somewhat pointed, 5-toothed, globosely 

 ventricose pentagonal tube with salient winged angles, which 

 are saccate at their base as above mentioned, thus greatly re- 

 sembling in shape that of Nicandra or Physalis in fruit : the seg- 

 ments are densely covered on both sides with glandular, simple, 

 and stellated hairs intermixed. The corolla is nearly the length 

 of the calyx, is cleft almost to the base, where it is briefly tubu- 

 lar ; the segments, which scarcely exceed the stamens in length, 

 are expanded, smooth inside, with a keeled medial nervure, and 

 outside are densely tomentose with stellated pubescence. The 

 ovary is conically ovate ; the style is slender, erect, fusiform at 

 the apex, and terminated by two minute teeth : the berry is round, 

 about the size or smaller than a common pea, 2-celled, and con- 

 tains a few large, compressed, reniformly- orbicular seeds. I have 

 ascertained that the Solanum megalochiton of Dr. Sendtner, and 

 S. didymum of M. Dunal, both belong to this genus ; S. eriocalyx, 

 from its description, also appears to be congeneric with them, and 

 probably other species of Solanum^ enumerated by M. Dunal in his 

 monograph, will find a place here. Its generic features m^y be 

 thus described : — , 



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Cliocarpus (char, reform.). Calyx profunde 5-partSus^ iitnn- 

 que stellato-tomentosus, rarissime simpliciter pilosus, imo 

 patellaris, circa pedicel! um umbraculiformis, et secus sinua 



- 5-saccatus, laciniis expansis, lanceolatis, acutis, in fructu 

 auctus, tunc laciniis erectis (ut in Nicandram) marginibus 

 refractis hinc valvatim conniventibus, tubum ventricosum 

 carinato 5-gonum ore 5-dentato fere clauso simulantibus. 

 Corolla subrotata, calyce plus minusve sequilonga, 5-fida, laci- 

 niis sequalibus, tubo sequilongis veJ longioribus, subacutis, 

 apice inflexis, extus tomentosis, intus glabris, nervo medio 



