FERNALD. — MEXICAN SOLANUMS. 659 



Dec. 1894, and Isla Pietlra, uear Mazatlan, Dec. 31, 1894 {Frank H. 



Lamb, nos. 336, 330"); Rosario, June 20, 1897, and foothills of the 



Sierra Madre, near Colomas, July 20, 1897 (/. N. Rose, nos. 1402, 



1777): Jalisco, barranca near Guadalajara, June, 1886 (Edw. Palmer, 



no. 106); uear Guadalajara, Nov. 14, 1888, May 27, 1891 (C. G.Fringle, 



nos. 2193, 5140 [type]) ; mountains near Talpa, alt. 1,200 to 1,540 m., 



March 7, 1897, Maria Madre Tsl., May 3-25, 1897 {E. W. Nelson, 



nos. 4040, 4185): Colima, Colima, Jan. 9-Feb. 6, 1891 {Ediv. Pol- 



mer, no. 1179): Guerrero, Acapulco, Nov. 1894 (AVw. Palmer, no. 



148). 



-1- •<- Pedicels not glandular. 



++ Pubescence of branches and lower face of leaves whitish-lanate. 



S. Hartwegi, Benth. Essentially unarmed, branches rarely with a 

 few spines : leaves from oblong-lanceolate to ovate, entire or sinuate- 

 repand, acuminate, pale green above, the youn^^er stellate-velutinous, the 

 older scabrous: cymes many-flowered, the branches scorpoid; peduncles 

 pedicels and calyx white-lanate ; fruiting pedicels mostly erect: ripe 

 fiuit red, glabrous, 1 cm. or more in diameter. — PI. Hartvv. 68; 

 Duual, I.e. 262, S. torvum, var. lanatum, Dunal, I.e. 261. — Hart- 

 weg's original specimen was from Hacienda del Carmen. Dunal's 

 variety was based upon a Guatemala specimen. The following are 

 referred here: Mexico, Valley of Mexico, Nov. 27, 1865 or 1866 

 {Bourgeau, no. 725): Vera Cruz, Valley of Cordova, Jan. 16, 1865 

 or 1866 {Bourgeau no. 1671) ; region of Orizaba, May to July {Bour- 

 5'eaM, nos. 2408, 2556, Botteri, nos. 82, 1083, Seaton, no. 142); Santa 

 Lucretia, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Feb., 1895 (C. L. Smith, no. 1071) : 

 Oaxaca, hills near Oaxaca, alt. 1,850 m., Sept. 8, 1894 (C. G. Pringle, 

 no. 4891) ; Monte Alban, alt. 1,690 m., Nov. 24, 1894 (Z. C. Smith, 

 no. 341) ; near Totontepec, alt. 1,690 m., vicinity of Choapam, alt. 

 1,170 to 1,385 ra., vicinity of Yalalag, alt. 1,230 to 2,400 m., July, 

 1894 (^. W. Nelson, nos. 788, 835, 952); Tillantongo, Dec. 12, 1895 

 {Ed. Seler, no. 1591) : Guatemala, San SigUc4n, Depart. Quiche, alt. 

 1,785 m., May, 1892 {Heyde & Liix in exsicc. J. D. Smith, no. 3446) : 

 Costa Rica, Cartago, Prov. Cartago, alt. 1,300 m., Nov., 1887 {Juan 

 J. Cooper in exsicc. J. D. Smith, no. 5872). Palmer's no. 637 from San 

 Luis Potosi, 1878, may be an attenuated form of this. 



++ ++ Pubescence ochraceous or fuscous. 

 = Branches more or less armed. 

 S. Fendleri, Van Heurck & Miill. Arg. Sparingly armed : pubes- 



