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~ ovato-oblongis acuminatis integerrimis, basi obliquis, supra pubescentibus, demum glabris, subtus ramulis 
pedunculis ealyeibusque dense tomentosis; corymbis extra-axillaribus bifidis oo-floris; calycis 5-fidi 
laciniis triangularibus acutis; corolle laciniis lineari-lanceolatis extus dense tomentosis; stylo stamina 
superante; bacca globosa levi glabra pisi magnitudine.—Loyalty Islands (Sir G. Grey !), New Caledonia 
(Sir E. Home!), Isle of Pines (Milne! M'Gillivray!). A shrub, from 12-14 feet high. Leaves from 4-5 
inches long, 1-14 inches broad. Corolla longer than the calyx. Fruiting peduncle swollen towards the 
apex. The nearest ally of this species is ©. Sandwichense, Hook. et Arn., but the lobes of the corolla are 
linear-lanceolate almost subulate, whilst those of S. Sandwichense are ovate-acuminate. 
9. S. Sandwichense, Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech. p. 92.—S. Woahense, Dun. in DC. Prodr. vol. xiii. sect. 
1, p. 268.—Oahu (Beechey! Seemann! n. 2273, Macrae!, Hinds!, Nuttall!, Barclay!). Var. (?) B. 
Kavaiense, A. Gray, Proceed. Amer. Acad. vol. vi. p. 48.—Kauai (U. S. Expl. Exped.), Oahu (Barclay! in 
Mus. Brit.). ij 
10. S. Milnei, Seem. Journ. of Bot. 1863, p. 210; fruticosum, erectum, inerme; ramis peduneulis 
pedicellisque cano-tomentosis ; foliis solitariis elliptico-lanceolatis utrinque longe acuminatis v. ovato-acumi- 
natis, irregulariter et minute undulato-crenatis, basi inequilateralibus, supra adsperso-pilosis demum glabris, 
subtus cano-tomentosis; floribus dichotomo-cymosis extra-axillaribus vel terminalibus; cymis divaricatis 
oo-floris; calycis laciniis euspidatis; corolle 5-fide tomentose laciniis lanceolatis; antheris apice 2-porosis ; 
stylo stamina superante, basi pilosa; bacca globosa glabra.—Isle of Futuna, New Hebrides (Milne! in 
Herb. Hook.), Aneitum (Milne!, M‘Gillivray!). “A shrub, 5 feet high” (Milne), and “ generally growing 
in clumps in waste places " (M‘Gillivray). Leaves with long petioles, and 6-7 inches long and 2 inches 
broad. Flowers apparently white. The fruit on the specimens I have seen not quite ripe. 
The following is a clavis to the Vitian species :— 
Flowers terminal . : : : : : í í : . S. tuberosum. 
Flowers axillary . ^ : : : Í : : : . SS. Vitiense. 
Flowers extra-axillary. 
Stem herbaceous š : ; ; : : 3 . Ñ. oleraceum. 
Stem woody. 
Fruit very hairy . . : : : : ; : . BS. repandum. 
Fruit glabrous. 
Leaves glabrous . . : ju ; : -  . S. anthropophagorum. 
Leaves with stellate hair below . : i i . -~ S. tetrandrum. ` 
1. S. tuberosum, Linn. Spec. p- 282; Dun. l. c.; rhizomate tubera gerente, caule herbaceo ; 
foliis impari-pinnatisectis, segmentis inzequalbus majoribus 3-5-jugis basi inæqualibus subcordatis 
subtus villosis albescentibus, alternis minutissimis ; pedicellis articulatis; corollis plicatis 5-angu- 
latis. —“ Potato” of the English colonists. Cultivated by some of the European colonists. 
I have eaten Potatoes grown at Rewa, Viti Levu, but they had a rather soapy taste, the climate being 
probably too warm for them ; they would grow well in the mountains of Viti Levu and Kadavu. 
2. S. oleraceum, Dun. in DC. Prodr. vol. xiii. sect. 1. p. 50; caule herbaceo annuo leviter 
angulato-dentato ; foliis longe petiolatis ovato-oblongis acuminatis membranaceis integerrimis v. 
angulato-dentatis glabriusculis ; pedicellis cymoso-umbellatis; corollze (albz) laciniis acutis; bacca 
globosa (nigra) glabra.— Nomen vernac. Vitiense, * Boro ni yaloka ni gata."—Common throughout 
Viti (Seemann! n. 344). Also collected in the Sandwich Islands (Nuttall! in Mus. Brit.), Norfolk 
Island (Milne! in Herb. Hook.), and Society Islands (Banks and Solander!) I have also seen it 
wild about Sydney, New South Wales. - ; 
This Solanum is much larger than S. nigrum, and the branches are more divaricate, the pedicels more 
filiform, and the flowers more minute than those of the species just named. Still, until somebody has care- 
fully worked out the limits of all the species comprised in Dunal's section Morelle vere, it is very difficult 
to assign satisfactory limits to a weedy and quick-growing plant like this. S. astroites, Forst., from 
the Soeiety Islands, may possibly be a synonym of S. oleraceum. Forster has left no description, drawing, or 
specimen of it; but when it is borne in mind that there are only four species of Solanum from the Society . 
Islands, viz. S. anthropophagorum, S. repandum, S. Forsteri, and 8. oleraceum, and that F orster could not 
mean the first three, having previously described them, there is little doubt that his S. astroites is identi- 
cal with S. oleraceum. I have seen both S. oleraceum and the genuine S. nigrum, brought to market at Port 
Louis, Mauritius, where, as in Viti, the leaves are used as a pot-herb by all classes of the inhabitants. 
. 8. S. anthropophagorum, Seem. in Bonpl. vol. x. p. 274. t. 14. (Tab. XXXVIL) ; Bot. Mag. 
