248 Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 



627. MesosphaeruiR uliginosum (St. Hilaire) O. Kuntze. 



HypHs uliginosa St. Hilaire, in Bentham, Labiatarura Genera et Species, 1832- 



1834, p. 81. 

 Hyptis eriocaidoides A. Richard, in Sagra, Historia Fisica, Politica y Natuial de 



la Isla de Cuba, XI, 1850, p. 157. (Through a typographical error this was 



published as "Hyptis criocauloides.") 

 Mesosphcerum uliginosum O. Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum, 1891, p. 526. 



"Crescit in insula Pinorum {Isla de Finos)'' A. Richard, I. c; 

 near Nueva Gerona, January 19, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 302. Gen- 

 eral Distribution: Cuba, the Isle of Pines, and South America. 



Family SOLANACE^. 

 Key to the Species Enumerated. 

 Fruit a berry, enclosed in a much inflated papery calyx. . . .628. Physalis angulata. 

 Fruit not so enclosed. 



An erect annual with very large ovate or lance-ovate leaves and red flowers 



4-6 cm. long; odor strong 639. Nicotiana Tabacum. 



Not as above. 



Leaves borne in two's, often unequal in size; corolla white or pale blue, about 



5 mm. long 631. Solanum antillarum. 



Leaves not borne in two's. 



No spines or strong prickles on either branches or leaves. 

 Slender-stemmed herbs. 



Corolla about i cm. long, with very slender cylindiical tube. 



640. Schwenkia americana. 



Corolla-tube turbinate. . .630. Solanum nigrum var. americanum. 



Shrubby; leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 1-3 cm. long; corolla 



white, nearly rotate 629. Capsicum frutescens. 



Shrubby; leaves oblong to lance-oblong, 5-12 cm. long; corolla 11-13 

 mm. long, with a gradually dilated tube. . .638. Cestrum diurnum. 

 Branches and leaves more or less spiny. 



Leaves 1-4 cm. long, angulate toothed, amply armed with yellowish 



spines 633. Solanum chamceacanthum. 



Leaves large, 10-25 cm. long, ovate, pale tomentose beneath, entire. 



632. Solanum verbascifolium. 

 Leaves angulate-lobed; branches armed with short recurved spines 

 with wide flattened bases. 



Petioles distinct, 1-2 cm. long 637. Solanum Houstounii. 



Petioles very short or none, base of leaf long-tapering. 



636. Solanum jamaicense. 

 Leaves entire, or sometimes somewhat angulate toothed; branches 

 armed with slender rather straight spines. 

 Spines 2-10 mm. long, at base 0.5-1 mm. wide; calyx-lobes 



acuminate 634. Solanum bahamense. 



Spines 1.5-6 mm. long, at base 1.5-3 mm. wide; calyx-lobes rather 

 obtuse 635. Solanum racemosum. 



