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narrowed at the base, strongly pinnately veined, the petioles 6-9 

 mm. long; stipules narrow, obtuse, deciduous, I cm. long; panicles 

 rather loosely flowered, 7 cm. long or less, minutely bracteolate; 

 pedicels 2-3 mm. long; calyx tube obconic, 2 mm. long, the limb 

 with 5 short rounded lobes; corolla white, 4 mm. long, its narrowly 

 oblong lobes twice as long as the tube; filaments about as long 

 as the corolla, the scale near the base of each with a dense tuft 

 of white hairs; stigmas one fourth as long as the style. 



Monte Jiquarito, Sierra Maestra, Oriente, Cuba, at about 

 1,100 meters altitude, September 18, 1906, Norman Taylor 515. 



The genus has been hitherto known only from the South 

 American Andes. 



20. NOTES ON SPECIES OF SOLANUM 

 Solanum Blodgettii Chapm. 



This species is cited by Mr. O. E. Schulz* as a synonym of 

 Solanum bahamense subarmatum (Willd.) O. E. Schulz, but he has 

 wholly misunderstood its type specimens, which show that it 

 is more nearly related to S. verbascifolium than to 5. bahamense; 

 it grows plentifully on Key West, Florida {Blodgett, type ; Merrill; 

 Pollard, Collins & Morris 3; Britton 520; Lansing 1969), in the 

 Florida Everglades {Britton 237; Small & Wilson 1678, 1962; 

 Small & Carter 2674, 2675, 2936, 3101), and is to be added to the 

 West Indian Flora, as it occurs on Cat Cay, Bahamas (Millspaugh 

 2341; Brace 3749). 



The varietal name Solanum bahamense subarmatum, under which 

 Mr. Schulz groups nearly or quite unarmed specimens of S. 

 bahamense, is redundant, for there is every transition from very 

 prickly plants to entirely unarmed ones throughout the range 

 of the species, individual bushes often bearing prickles below 

 and being quite devoid of them above. Harris 8169, from 

 Plowden Hill, Jamaica, as represented by our specimen, is un- 

 armed, though the duplicate of it, examined by Mr. Schulz, is 

 referred by him to the typical prickly form. 



Solanum boldoense A. DC. 

 This interesting Cuban vine is apparently of quite local 

 distribution at widely separated stations; about Matanzas it 



* Urban, Symb. Ant. 6: 223. 



