SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS, 39 
plurimis locis relata, nempe-Nova Granada, Goudot. Lima, 
in hort. cult. Mc. Lean, Buenos Ayres, in hort. cult. Tweedie, 
&e. 
According to Cavanilles this is a shrub about 4 feet in 
height. In all the specimens I have seen, the larger leaves 
measure 9 or 10 in. in length, 5 in. in breadth on a petiole, 
13 in. long: the smaller leaves are 53 in. long and 4 in. 
broad on a petiole of 14 in.: the racemes are about 7 in. in 
length: the corolla of a rosy hue has a short tube, with 5 
-oblong segments reflected at tip: the 5 equal stamens are 
included, the filaments are short and thick, the auricular lobes 
though small and hidden by the anthers are distinct and free : 
the anthers are large, curved, and approximate : the berry is 
reddish, about the size of a pigeon’s egg, and 2-celled : this is 
doubtless the same fruit that I saw in the markets of Lima, 
where it is commonly used for cooking in lieu of the ordinary 
Tomate, the flavour of which it greatly resembles. Tweedie 
remarks that it is used in Buenos Ayres for the same purpose, 
but not ordinarily, for I never observed it. 
8. Pionandra pendula. Solanum pendulum, R. et P. Flor. 
Peruv. 2.39, tab. 174, non Link :—fruticosa : foliis alternis, 
obovatis, simplicibus, vel geminis, aut pinnatis, utrinque 
pubescentibus, integerrimis, venosissimis, foliolis 2—6 nis, 
oblique cordatis, acutissimis, impari majori: racemis depen- 
dentibus, furcatis, pedicellis articulatis, sepe deciduis : 
fructu magno pyriformi—Peruvia in Muia. 
From the figure of Ruiz and Pavon, I do not doubt this 
species “belongs to this genus; and although the leayes are 
sometimes pinnate, they are often simple and cordate: the 
racemes, as in the other species, generally grow out of the 
bifurcation of the branchlets, and have many fleshy, secund 
flowers, with articulated pedicels: the fruit is also large, 2- 
celled, with lunulated placentations. . 
9, Pionandra odliqua. Solanum obliquum R. et P. Fl, Per. 
9.35, tab. 165, a:—glabra: foliis simplicibus, sub 5- 
nerviis, obovatis, oblique cordatis, acutis, supra nitidis, 
leviter pubescentibus : racemis extra-axillaribus, recurvis, 
