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The three following Solanacece of the Sandwich Islands, which I 

 cannot refer to any known genus, are here characterized from materials 



4. L. PUBEEDLUM (sp. Dov.) : foliis obovatis vel oblongo-spathulatis subtus uni- 

 nerviis fasciculatis (4-8 lin. longis) cum ramulis gracilibus calycibusque minutim 

 pruinoso-pubescentibus ; floribus sessilibus ; calycis lobis angusto-oblongis obtusis 

 tubo subhemisphffirico longioribus ; filamentis glabris. — Western borders of Texas, 

 near El Paso, C. Wright, no. 1609. " A much branched shrub, 2 to 4 feet high ; tube 

 of the corolla white, the margin yellowish-green." Spines numerous and slender. 

 Lobes of the calyx a line and a half long, very blunt. Corolla 4| or 5 lines long, 

 the short lobes recurved, ovate ; the tube within pubescent below the insertion of 

 the glabrous filaments : anthers cordate-globular. 



* * Calyx insigniter 4 - 5-dentatus, dentibus lanceolatis tubo suo parum bre- 

 vioribus : pedicelli calyce breviores vel jequilongi. Glabrse vel fere glabrie, spi- 

 nescentis. 



5. L. BREViPES, Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. p. 40; Miers, 1. c. p. 117, t. 69 C. — 

 Lower California, Hinds and Barclay, Xantus, no. 89 "? without flowers or fruit. 

 Our herbaria atford no materials for this species. We have nothing from that 

 region, or indeed from elsewhere, with the calyx scarcely a line long, and yet longer 

 than the pedicel, its teeth lanceolate and acute, and the corolla five lines long, or in 

 the imperfect flower figured by Miers three lines long. A fragment in herb. Torr., 

 from California, Kev. Mr. Fitch, somewhat accords with the character, except in 

 the calyx-teeth, which are very short and broad. 



6. L. EiCHii (sp. nov.) : foliis spathulatis (3-5 lin. longis), novellis tenuissime 

 puberulis vel fere glabris; floribus tetrameris; calyce carapanulato pedicello (1 -2- 

 lin.) longiori vel sequilongo, dentibus lato-lanceolatis acutiusculis tubum suba;quan- 

 tibus; coroUffi (4 lin. longse) tubo calyce et lobis ipsis duplo longiori intus glabro ; 

 filamentis basi villosis. — La Paz, South California, Major Rich. California, Rev. 

 A. Fitch (Herb. Torr.). The latter specimen has the young leaves minutely pu- 

 berulent, the former scarcely if at all so. Teeth of the calyx inclined to become re- 

 curved-spreading. Lobes of the corolla 4, oval, not ciliolate, not exceeded by the 

 filaments. Anthers oblong. 



* * * Calyx breviter vel brevissime 4 -5-dentatus, si3epe hinc vel bi - trilabiatim 



fissus, dentibus segmentisve latis. 

 •1- Subpuberulum : filamentanuda vel basi vix pilosa (corollam haudsuperantia). 



7. L. Fremonti (sp. nov.) : foliis spathulatis (J-|-pollicaribus) cum pedicellis 

 calycibusque tenuiter puberulis; calyce cylindraceo quam pedicellus gracilis bre- 

 viori, tubo dentibus quadruple longiori ; corolla tubulosa, tubo lobis 5 quadruple 

 longioribus; filamentis prorsus glabris. (L. near yj-a^osi(?n, Miers, in herb. Torr. ; 

 Torr. in Pacif. R. R. Exped. 4, p. (71) 127.) — Interior of California or country 

 east of it, Fremont, Coll. Exped. 1849. Williams's Fork of the Colorado, between 

 California and New Mexico, Dr. Bigelow, a form with narrower leaves and smaller, 

 more slender flowers, — i. e. calyx about 2 lines and corolla ^\ lines in length ; the 

 tube of the latter pubescent inside in lines below the stamens ; while in the type of 

 the species, the calyx is 3 lines, pedicels 4-7 lines, and corolla 6 lines in length ; 



