338 Britton: Studies of West Indian plants 



Solanum ierense sp. nov. 



A shrub about 2 m. high, the slender unarmed branches diver- 

 gent, glabrous, the young twigs stellate-pubescent. Leaves thin, 

 ovate or elliptic-ovate, 5 cm. long or less, delicately pinnately 

 few- veined, sparingly stellate-pubescent above, densely stellate- 

 pubescent beneath, the apex acute or obtuse, the base obtuse or 

 narrowed, the slender petioles 4-10 mm. long; flowers solitary or 

 geminate (rarely 3) in the axils on nearly filiform pubescent 

 peduncles 2.5 cm. long or less; calyx stellate-pubescent, 5-7-cleft, 

 the lobes linear-lanceolate, acuminate; corolla white, 5-6-cleft, its 

 lobes linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 10 mm. long; stamens 5 or 6, 

 all alike, the anthers somewhat attenuate, 8 mm. long, the fila- 

 ments 1-2 mm. long; immature berry "globose, about 7 mm. in 

 diameter. 



Hillside, Chacachacare, Trinidad {Britton, Freeman and Watts 

 2706). In flower and young fruit April 3, 1921. 



Solanum Hazenii sp. nov. 



A tree up to about 5 m. high with a woody trunk about 1.5 

 dm. in diameter. Leaves broadly elliptic, rather thin and flaccid, 

 10-20 cm. long, 8-15 cm. wide, strongly pinnately veined on the 

 under side, the apex short-acuminate, the base obtuse, the upper 

 surface finely stellate when young, glabrous when old, the under 

 surface persistently stellate-tomentulose, the stout, stellate-tomer- 

 tulose petioles 3 or 4 cm. long; inflorescence stalked, about 

 equalling the leaves, many-flowered, tomentulose; pedicels short; 

 flower-buds subglobose, rounded, tomentulose; calyx tomentulose, 

 deeply lobed, 5 mm. long, the lobes obtuse; corolla white, 20 

 mm. broad, 5-lobed to below the middle, the lobes broadly ovate, 

 acute; stamens all alike, the anthers 3 mm. long, about twice as 

 long as the filaments; berry globose, black, about 8 mm. in diam- 

 eter. 



Hillsides, northwestern parts of Trinidad mainland and on the 

 adjacent Bocas Islands. Type from Saddle Road {Britton and 

 Hazen 156). 



Solanum capillipes sp. nov 



A shrub, about 2 m. high, the slender young branches pilose, 

 the older branches glabrous. Leaves oblong-elliptic to elliptic- 

 lanceolate, membranous, all alike, pinnately veined, glabrous, 

 somewhat darker green above than beneath, 10-15 cm. long, 

 3-6 cm. wide, acuminate, the slightly inequilateral base narrowed, 

 the petioles about 1 cm. long; racemes lateral, few-flowered, 



