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SOLANUM nnciiiellimi. 

 Hook-petalled Solanum. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 

 Nat. ord. SoLANACE^. 

 SOLANUM. Botanical Register, vol. l.fol. 72. 



S. unclnelhini (Nycterium) ; iuerme, herbaceum, foliis integerrimis ovato- 

 lanceolatis subcordatis obsolete pubescentibus, panieulu termniali, caly- 

 cibus campanulatis 5-crenatis, corollse laciniis apice uncinatis, antberis 

 apice biporosis altera productiore. 



Caules decumbentes, herbacei, obscure pubescentes, Jili/urmes, virides. 

 Folia alterna, ovato-lanceolata, basi subcordata, levifer pubcscenfia, integer- 

 rima, 2 jjollices longa, petiolo suo duplo longiora. Panicula tenninalis, simplex, 

 ramis subtrijloris. Flores rosei. Calyx campamdafus, dentibns 5 brevibus 

 rotmidatis. Corolla demhn patens imh rerolutu, (I'stivationc infiexo-valvari, 

 laciniis apice uncinato-injlexis. Antherse liberte, apice biporosa', conni- 

 venfes sed nidlo modo cohcerentes ; altera cceteris obfilamenfimi longius produc- 

 tiore. Stylus jjjf^ew^'/w ; aii^vAa. obscv re 2-1 obum. 



This plant flowered in the year 1837 in the garden of 

 the Horticultural Society, in the month of July, but having 

 been subsequently destroyed by the severe winter of 1837-8 

 its history was lost with it, and search has in vain been made 

 for it in books. It was a pretty decumbent pink-floweied 

 herbaceous plant, perhaps an annual, and appeared very 

 different from any thing in the collections of this country. 



If the genus Nycterium is to be preserved, and the sin- 

 gular elongation of one anther is a peculiarity deserving of 

 consideration, then the present plant will belong to it. 



In some respects it approaches the S. loxense of Dunal, 

 but that species is not said to be a Nycterium ; in other cir- 

 cumstances it would seem referable to the vicinity of >S'. lyci- 

 oides and caudicans, but the habit of those plants is by no 

 means that of the plant before us. 



Fig. 1. represents the stamens, the principal part of the 

 corolla having been cut away. 



