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This, if I am correct in referring it to the genus Atropa, is 

 perhaps the only species that inhabits cold mountain-districts : 

 it is very distinct from every hitherto described one, being 

 remarkable for its glandular and apparently viscid^ leaves 

 and branches, for the great length of the tube of the corolla, 

 and for its 5-partite calyx. 



4. Nicandra physalodes. Gcertn, — Atropa physalodes. Linn. — 



Calydermos erosus. Ruiz et Pav. — Alkakengi, &c. Feuill. 

 Obs. V. 2. t. 16. 

 Hab. Lurin, near Lima. 



5. Witheringia phyllantha ; caule herbaceo alato, foliis pilosis 

 cuneiformibus angulato-lobatis decurrentibus, racemis e 

 foliis nascentibus. Dunal, Sol. — Solanum phyllanthum. 

 Cav. Ic. V. 4. p. 35. t. 359. f. 1. 



Hab. Lurin, near Lima. 



6. Witheringia? salicifolia ; fruticosa, ramis elongatis, foliis 

 anguste lanceolatis acuminatis integerrimis vel superne 

 serratis, pedunculis solitariis vel binis axillaribus unifloris. 



Hab. Lurin, near Lima. 



Of the genus of this I am doubtful. In habit, it ill accords 

 with the few species of Witheringia with which I am acquainted. 

 The stems are twiggy, glabrous, and, as well as the long nar- 

 row-lanceolate leaves, much resemble some Willow or Lycium. 

 The flowers are scarcely so large as those of Solanum Dulca- 

 mara. The calyx is deeply 5-cleft, with lanceolato-subulate 

 segments. The corolla rotate. Stamens 5, spreading : anthers 

 opening longitudinally. Germen globose, 2-celled, many- 

 seeded, with the seeds arranged upon receptacles attached to 

 the dissepiment: style short: stigma capitate, furrowed. 



7. Lycopersicon esculentum. Dunal. — Solanum Lycopersicum. 



Linn. 

 Hab. Valley of Lima. 



8. Solanum amhlophyllum ; fruticosum, foliis oblongis obtusis 



coriaceis glabris intecjerrimis subtus in venarum axillis 

 solummodo tomentosis, racemis terminalibus subumbel- 

 latis, floribus (fructuque) nutantibus, calycis glabri lobis 5 



