tosi. Folia grossiuscule membranacea, circiter ovata vel 
irregulariter elliptica, usque ad 50 cm. longa, 38-40 cm. 
lata (probabiliter majora), basi inaequaliter truncata, 
apice abrupte acuminata vel subacuta, margine distantis- 
sime et profundissime sinuata, valde petiolata (petiolis 
usque ad 9 cm. longis, densissime albo-stellato-tomento- 
sis), supra dense albido-sericea, infra regulariter albido- 
stellata; venis omnino stellatis. Inflorescentiae cymosae, 
laterales, breviter pedunculatae, pauciflorae. Flores pedi- 
cellati usque ad 1 cm. longi, 8 mm. in diametro, den- 
sissime molliterque stellato-pilosi. Calycis lobi aliquid 
crassulentes, triangulari-ovati, acuti, usque ad 12 mm. 
longi, extus maxime densissime molliterque albido- 
stellati, intus subglabri sed minute Jepidote, fructu per- 
sistentes. Corolla valde membranacea, Jobis albido- 
viridibus, oblongis, usque ad 18 mm. longis, 6 mm. latis, 
intus subglabris, extus dense stellato-pilosis. Anthera 
flava, erecta, plusminusve 8 mm. longa. Stylus teres, 5 
mm. longus. Ovarium globosum, dense albido-sericeum, 
2.5 mm. in diametro. Fructus globosus vel subglobosus, 
9-9.5 em. in diametro, maturitate rufescens, dense mi- 
nuteque stellato-tomentulosus: indumento faciliter ca- 
duco,maturitate subglabrescens. Pulpa acidulosa. Semi- 
na numerosissima, compressa, in circuiter ovalia, 2-8 mm. 
longa, plusminusve 1.8-2 mm. lata, straminea. 
Cotomspia: Comisaria del Putumayo, Rio Putumayo, Puerto Asis, 
altitude about 200 m. ‘‘Fruit orange-red. Size of very large orange, 
covered with caducous hairs. Leaves and petioles spineless. Shrub 
3-4 feet tall. Cultivated. Lulo.’’ August 2, 1960, Richard Evans 
Schultes 22571 (Tyrer in Eeon, Herb. Oakes Ames; Dup icatre TYPE 
in Herb. Nac. Col. ). 
Solanum alibile, sonamed because of its extensive local 
use asa fruit and source of arefreshing beverage, is close- 
ly related to S. Topiro. More extensive field or mono- 
graphic work might indicate that it should be accorded 
only varietal rank. The inhabitants readily distinguish 
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