FERNALD. — MEXICAN SOLANUMS. 559 



Dec. 1894, and Isla Piedra, uear Mazatlan, Dec. 31, 1894 (Frank II. 

 Lamb, nos. 336, 33G a ); 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); near Guadalajara, Nov. 14, 1888, May 27, 1891 (C. G.Pringle, 

 nos. 2193, 5140 [type]) ; mountains uear 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, Colhna, Jan. 9-Feb. 6, 1891 (Edw. Pal- 

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



148). 



+- -t- Pedicels not glandular. 



++ Pubescence of branches and lower face of leaves vvhitishdanate. 



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

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

 repand, acuminate, pale green above, the younger stellate- velutinous, the 

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

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

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

 Dunal, 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- 

 geau, nos. 2408, 2556, Botteri, nos. 82, 1083, Sealon, no. 142); Santa 

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

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

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

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

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

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

 (Ed. Seler, no. 1591): Guatemala, San Siguan, Depart. Quiche, alt. 

 1,785 m., May, 1892 (Heyde & Lux 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 & Mull. Arg. Sparingly armed : pubes- 



