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villous below, appressed-hispid above; the hispidulous filiform teeth 

 twisted aud hooked at the tips, becoming 4 mm. iu length : corolla white, 

 early deciduous ; the tube 13 to 15 mm, long, spreading above to a limb 

 2h cm. broad, with shallow rounded lobes: stamens unequally inserted 

 above the base of the minutely pubescent corolla-tube ; anthers pubes- 

 cent : stigmas filiform : fruiting calyx enclosing the ovate-oblong muricu- 

 late and minutely puberulent drupe. — Occurring rarely in the thickets 

 upon hillsides, November, 1894 (no. 70). 



Solannm lignescens. Erect, lignescent, 4 or 5 dm. high, spar- 

 ingly branched, the older parts covei'ed with a tliin brownish cortex; 

 branches, leaves, pedicels, and calyces viscid and covered with slightly 

 fuscous stellate hairs : leaves mostly solitary, rarely geminate, ovate-ob- 

 long, entire, on thickish petioles 7 to 13 mm. long, acute at base, blunt or 

 rounded at the apex, dull green and sparingly pubescent above, pale and 

 densely pubescent beneath, especially on the midrib and the 7 to 11 

 lateral veins : umbels 3-6-flowered, subsessile a little below the leaves ; 

 the peduncles in fruit becoming 3 or 4 mm. long ; pedicels reflexed, in 

 an thesis 7 to 10 mm. long, in fruit becoming twice that length: calyx 

 short-campanulate, 3 mm. long, with 5 oblong obtuse lobes: corolla 

 white, minutely pubescent, 1^ cm. broad, with lance-ovate acute lobes: 

 stamens oblong, about 4 mm. long : style slightly exserted : berries 

 smooth, black, 12 mm. in diameter. — In fields, high up on the mountains, 

 November, 1894 (no. 216). The fresh plant, according to Dr. Palmer, 

 has the odor of tobacco. 



Herpestis decumbens. Rather stout, 3 dm. or so high from a 

 decumbent base ; the hollow quadrangular stem much branched and deli- 

 cately spotted with pale green and brown : leaves 4 or 5 cm. long, lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, with tliickish margins, appressed-serrate above, cuneate 

 below to half-clasping slightly decurrent bases, glabrous, irregularly pitted 

 beneath : flowers solitary in the axils of the short upper leaves ; pedicels 

 about 2 mm. iu length : calyx subtended by a pair of lanceolate bracts 



4 mm. long ; the three outer sepals ovate with rounded or subcordate 

 bases, 7 to 9 mm. long, strongly nerved, the posterior larger than the 

 others ; inner sepals lanceolate, acuminate, glandular-ciliate on the 

 margins and midrib, about 7 mm. in length : corolla bilabiate, scarcely 

 exceeding the calyx, the upper lip 2-lobed ; the tube sparingly pubescent 

 below the four short stamens : ovary and capsule ovate-oblong, covered 

 with pellucid dots ; style thickish, dilated, 2-lobed at the apex : capsule 



5 or 6 mm. high ; seed minute, black, oblong, truncated, and strongly 

 reticulated. — In wet bottoms, March, 1895 (no. 609). A rather stout 



