FERNALD. — MEXICAN PLANTS. 569 



to a slender petiole 1.5 to 3.5 cm. long: peduncle filiform, usually curved 

 at tip, in fruit 2 to 3.5 cm. long : calyx in anthesis 6 mm. long, with 

 short narrowly triangular acutish or blunt lobes: corolla 1 to 1.5 cm. 

 broad, sulphur-yellow, with purple patches at base: fruiting calyx ovate, 

 1.5 to 2 cm. long, obscurely 5-angled, the tips counivent : mature berry 

 orange, edible. — Coahuila, in shade, Saltillo, Sept. 1808 (Edw. 

 Pitlmer, no. 332). 



P. Rydbergii. Perennial (?) : stem slender, tough, much branched, 

 finely glandular-puberulent : leaves lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, sub- 

 entire or shallowly sinuate-dentate, finely glandular-pubescent on both 

 faces, 0.5 to 1.5 cm. long, 3 to 5 mm. broad, acute at tip, tapering un- 

 equally at base to slender petioles about half as long : peduncle filiform, 

 in fruit becoming 1 to 1.5 cm. long: calyx open-campanulate, the lobes 

 not connivent at tip, in anthesis 0.5 cm. long, with ovate-lanceolate blunt 

 lobes : corolla barely 1 cm. in diameter, yellow, with 5 acute lobes : 

 fruiting calyx broadly open-campanulate, 1 cm. long, 5-10-angled, 

 strongly reticulate. — Mexico, Ymala, Sept. 25-Oct. 8, 1891 {Edw. 

 Palmer, no. 1713). Dedicated to Per Axel Rydberg, whose critical 

 studies of this genus have greatly cleared the confusion which prevailed 

 in the American species, and to whose unique section Crasslfoliae the 

 present species is an addition. 



Solanum (Anthoresis) plumense. Shrub with cinereous smooth- 

 ish bark: young branches finely pulverulent: leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

 long-acuminate, acutish or rounded at the base, 1 to 1.8 dm. long, 4 to 6 

 cm. wide, entire or slightly undulate, minutely cinereous-stellate on both 

 faces ; petioles slender, 2 to 5 cm. long : corymb on a long cinereous- 

 pulverulent peduncle, in fruit 1 to 1.5 dm. broad, many-flowered: calyx 

 2 mm. high, cinereous-stellate, with 5 ovate-deltoid bluntish lobes : cor- 

 olla white, stellate-pulverulent without, 0.5 cm. high, 1.5 cm. broad, with 

 ovate-lanceolate lobes: stamens subequal, oblong, truncate, 2 to 2.5 mm. 

 long: fruit subglobose, sparingly pulverulent, 1 cm. in diameter. — 

 Oaxaca, about Pluma, alt. 925 to 1,480 m., March 17, 1895 (E. W. 

 Nelson, no. 2493). 



S. 'Polymeris) dejectum. Branching a little above the stout 

 woody root: stems slender, herbaceous, ascending, decumbent at base, 

 branching, cinereous-pilose above with fine stellate hairs: upper leaves 

 geminate, unequal, from subreniform to broadly ovate, rounded or taper- 

 ing to a bluntish tip, subtruncate or gradually tapering below to a petiole 

 1 to 3.5 cm. long, finely and closely cinereous-stellate on both faces, 

 more strongly so beneath, entire or slightly undulate, 2 to 5 cm. long : 



