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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 may be 

 thus described : 



Cliocarpus (char, reform.). Calyx profunde 5-partitus, utrin- 

 que stellato-tomentosus, rarlssime simpliciter pilosus, imo 

 patellaris, circa pedicellum umbraculiformis, et^ sccus sinua 

 5-saccatus, laciniis expansis, lanceolatis, acutls, 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 Eequalibus, tubo sequilongis vel longioribus, subacutis, 

 apice inflexis, extus tomentosis, intus glabris, nervo medio 

 prominulo. Stamina 5, sequalia, corollse fere longitudine; 

 filamenta brevissima, glabra, ex annulo camoso imo tubi ad- 

 nato 5-sinuato orta, valde sigmoidea, complanata, sulcata, 

 apice acuta : anthera maguffi, erectse, circa stylum conniventes, 

 oblongse, 2-lobBe, 4-locellat8e, basi breviter bifidse, ad imum 

 sulci dorsali afiixse, lobis sine connective conspicuo parallelc 

 adnatis, sulco longitudinal! et summo prsecipue utrinque rima 

 antica obliqua valvatim late hiantibus, valvula superiori hinc 

 erecta auriculseformi, inferiori fere obsoleta. Ovarium gla- 

 brum, subrotundum, 2-sulcatum, 2-loculare, ovulis plurimis 

 dissepimento placcntifero camoso utrinque adnatis. Siylun 

 simplex, filiformis, staminibus dimidio longior. _ Stigma mi- 

 nutum, brevissime bifidum, dentibus acutis, divaricatis vel ad- 

 pressis! Bacca calyce aucto inclusa, subglobosa, 2-locularis : 

 semina pauca, reniformia, compressa, testa scrobiculata, hilo in 

 sinu laterali- enibruo teres, in albumen carnosum spiraliter 



an 



spectante, hiloque evitante sub-3-plo brevioribus.— Frutices 

 Brasilienses, pilis simplicibus {plerumque cum stellatis tnter- 

 mixtis), dense iomentosi : folia alterna, vel sape gemina, altera 

 minori, Integra, oblonga, acuta, imo obtusa, interdum cordata, 

 breviter petiolata: flores extra-axillares, solitarii aut bint, vel 

 in raceme mb-umbellajformi plures aggregati, pedicellis longis, 

 filifm-mibus , fructiferis cemuis. 



1. Cliocarpus Gardneri, nob. huj. op. p. 35, Plate 44; DC. 

 ' Prodr. xiii. 675 ;— fruticosus, subdichotome ramosus, ramis 



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