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divisa. Gemme nude, foliis induplicatis. Inflorescentie normaliter terminales, sed per recaules- ' 
centiam et concaulescentiam alares, axillares, extra-axillares, eymosze, cymis nunc simplicibus nune 
dichotomis, nunc e ramulis compluribus indefinite ordinatis compositis, faciem corymbi racemi um- 
bell v. paniculæ simulantes. Flores hermaphroditi, rarius polygami, sæpe pistillo abortivo steriles, 
interdum solitarii.— Melongena, Tournef. Inst. p. 151. t. 65. 
The Solana inhabiting tropical Polynesia, and preserved in the herbaria of the British Museum, Hooker, 
and Bentham, amount to fifteen species, only seven of which were given in Professor A. Gray's list of Poly- 
nesian Solanacee. The species as yet not found in Viti are— 
1. S. incompletum, Dunal in DC. Prodr. vol. xiii. sect. 1. p. 311.—Hawaii (Nelson! in Mus. Brit.; 
Remy, n. 451, fide A. Gray). There are two specimens of this, without flower and fruit, at the British 
Museum, which Dunal provisionally named S. Sandwichianum, a name afterwards cancelled.. * — - 
2. S. xanthocarpum, Schrad. et Wendl. Sert. Hanov. i. p. 8. t. 2.—Oahu, Sandwich Islands (Barclay ! 
in Mus. Brit., Seemann, n. 1721).—Native Hawaiian name, * Kikania.” Probably introduced from India. 
"The plant is about two feet high, and in my notes I call the berries scarlet. The calyx is clad with large 
straw-coloured spines. : : 
3. S. (§ Morelle vere) Forsteri, Seem. in Journ. of Bot. 1863, p. 207; herbaceum, annuum, breviter 
villoso-tomentosum demum glabrescens; caule inermi vix angulato geniculato-flexuoso ; foliis ovatis acu- 
minatis integerrimis v. sinuato-dentatis basi cordatis v. in petiolum attenuatis; cymis extra-axillaribus 3-6- 
floris ; pedicellis cernuis; calycis laciniis ovatis acutis; corolla extus tomentella; baeca globosa glabra pisi 
magnitudine.—S. nigrum, Forst. Prodr. n. 106, non Linn.— Easter Island (Forster! in Herb. Mus. Brit.), 
Tahiti (Nelson !, Sir J. Banks!), Vavao, Friendly Islands (Barclay !). This species is much nearer to SN. 
villosum, Lam., than S. nigrum, Linn.; but the leaves are generally less deeply eut than they are in $. 
villosum, and in only one specimen, collected by Sir.J. Banks in Tahiti, do there occur any deep indenta- 
tions. Forster's specimen, from Easter Island, is much more hairy than the Tahitian or Tongan speci- 
mens. The flowers and berries are much smaller than in the true S. nigrum. Solander, in his MS. volume, 
included the Tahitian specimens under the name of S. rubrum, but he describes the berry as black. 
4. S. amicorum, Benth. in Lond. Journ. of Bot. vol. ii. p. 227 ; DC. Prodr. xiii. sect. 1. p. 269.— Tongan 
Islands (Forster! Nelson! Barclay! in Mus. Brit., U. S. Expl. Exped.! in Herb. Benth.). 
5. S. puberulum, Nutt. mss. in Seem. Journ. of Bot. 1863, p. 207 ; fruticosum, ramis junioribus fur- 
furaceo-tomentosis demum glabratis, foliis geminis, altero multo minore, ovato-oblongis acuminatis inte- 
gerrimis vel sinuato-lobatis; lobis acutis, basi obliquis, utrinque furfuraceo-puberulis, ante evolutionem 
ochraceo-tomentosis; floribus extra-axillaribus simpliciter racemosis; pedicellis gracilibus; calycis lobis 
subulatis corolla tomentosa fere 5-partita 3—4-plo brevioribus; baccis globosis glabris nitidis ($ une. dia- 
metro).—5S. puberulum et pulverulentum, Nutt. mss. in Herb. Mus. Brit.—Oahu, in silvis montosis (Nut- 
tall ), Sandwich Islands (Menzies! in Herb. Mus. Brit.). This is very near S. Sandwichense, Hook. and 
Arn., and S. tetrandrum, R. Brown, but differs from both in not having divaricate cymes but simple ra- 
cemes. It is far less tomentose than S. Sandwichense, the leaves, when fully developed, being quite gla- 
brous on both sides, as are also the fruiting peduncles and pedicels. Larger leaves, including petiole, 4—5 
inches long, 2 inches broad; fruiting pedicels 1 inch long. 
6. S. Bauerianum, Endl. Fl. Norf. p. 54.—Norfolk Island (Herb. Hook.). Very near S. anthropopha- 
gorum and S. viride, R. Br., but corymbs generally terminal and corolla glabrous. 
7. S. Nelsoni, Dunal in DC. Prodr. vol. xiii. sect. 1. p. 123.— S. rotundifolium, Nutt. mss. in Mus. 
Brit. et Herb. Hook.! S. argenteum, Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech. p. 92?— Kauai (Nuttall! in Herb. Hook. 
et Mus. Brit.), Oabu (Remy, n. 442, fide A. Gray). I have compared Nuttall's specimen of S. rotundi- 
folium with the original one of Nelson, at the British Museum, and there can be no doubt that they are 
identical. But I do not find in Hooker’s herbarium the specimen, mistaken by the authors of Becahay's 
Botany for S. argenteum, which A. Gray hesitatingly refers to S. Nelsoni. Nor has Prof. Arnott, as he 
informs me, a specimen of it. : 
Var. thomasiefolium, Seem. in Journ. of Bot. 1863, p. 209; foliis cordato-ovatis sinuato-lobatis, lobis 
(5-7) obtusis vel cordatis integris; fructu globoso glabro pisi magnitudine.—S. vestitum, Nutt. mss. in 
Herb. Mus. Brit.—Atoi (Nuttall! in Herb. Mus. Brit. et Hook.). This has quite the look of Thomasia 
solanacea, Gay, and would probably be described as a new species by any one not having seen the evident 
. transition there is in some specimens of what Nuttall has called S. rotundifolium and A. Gray justly 
considers identical with the original S. Nelsoni, Dun., preserved at the British Museum. In these speci- 
mens some of the leaves have a tendency to become sinuato-lobate, whilst again several leaves of my var. 
thomasiefolium are cordate and entire. The resemblance between S. Nelsoni var. thomasigfolium and 
Thomasia solanacea is quite ns striking as that between the Amazonian moth and the humming-bird figured 
in Mr. Bates's Travels on the Amazon. 
8. S. Austro-Caledonicum, Seem. in Journ. of Bot. 1563, p. 209; fruticosum, erectum, inerme; foliis 
