tation.” Apparently, however, So/anwmn muricatum has 
never become more than a rare novelty in the United 
States, but the fruits do occasionally get into the mar- 
kets locally in San Francisco and other parts of southern 
California. 
Solanum platyphyllum Humboldt & Bonpland ex 
Dunal Sol. gen. aff. syn. (1816) 88. 
Shrub occasionally weakly armed, rank, up to about 
4 feet tall. Branches stout, terete. Twigs white-stellate- 
pubescent. Leaves membranaceous, ovate in outline, at 
maturity up to about 80 em. long, 22 em. wide, basally 
truncate, apically abruptly acute, marginally distantly, 
regularly and deeply minute, strongly petiolate (petiole 
up to about 10 cm. long, somewhat sulcate, brownish- 
stellate-pubescent); upper surface dark green, asperous- 
lepidote and very sparsely stellate-pubescent ; nether 
surface pale green, densely and softly stellate-pilose : 
veins conspicuous especially beneath. Inflorescence a 
lateral, very short-peduncled, few-flowered cyme. Flow- 
ers pedicellate; pedicels more or less 5 mm. long, stel- 
late-pilose. Calyx cup-shaped, crassulent, densely white- 
stellate-pilose without, white-lepidote within, apically 
sinuate, 5-dentate, more or less 3.5 mm. long. Corolla 
somewhat crassulent, lobes triangular, apically acute, 
marginally conspicuously inrolled, up to about 9 mm. 
long, very densely white-stellate-pubescent. Anthers 
yellow, erect, linear, about 7 mm. long. Style filiform, 
apically slightly clavate, 5.5 mm. long. Fruit globose, 
up to about 2 cm. in diameter, ripening purplish red, 
glabrous (only in young form with dense stellate hairs). 
Pulp strongly acid. Seeds numerous, flat, oval in outline, 
yellowish. 
Cotombia : Comisaria del Amazonas, Trapécio amazonico, Loretoyacu 
River, altitude about 100 m. **Flowers white. Fruit edible.’’ Octo- 
ber 20-30, 1945, R. FE. Schultes 6642. 
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