with two sizes of stellate hairs occurring together: veins 
pinnate, more or less 10 on each side, midrib and lateral 
nerves conspicuous on both surfaces but especially so be- 
neath; blade dark green above, pale green with definite 
purplish hue beneath. Inflorescence a lateral, very short- 
peduncled, few-flowered cyme. Flowers pedicellate, 
white, about 4 cm. in diameter; pedicels stoutish, up to 
15 mm. long, densely tawny-purple stellate. Calyx lobes 
subcrassulent, more or less triangular, apically subacute, 
up to about 11 mm. long, basally 8 mm. wide, extremely 
densely purple-white stellate pubescent without, glabrous 
within. Corolla thick, membranaceous, white, lobes ob- 
long-ovate, up to about 10-11 mm. long, 4-5 mm. wide, 
apically obtuse to occasionally subacute, glabrous within, 
densely white stellate-pubescent without. Anthers yel- 
low, erect, linear, about 8 mm. long. Ovary globose, 
densely white-stellate. Fruit globose, rarely round-ovate, 
about 5 cm. in diameter, orange-colored when ripe, 
densely covered with easily deciduous white stellate hairs. 
Pulp acidulous, pale yellowish green. Seeds very numer- 
ous, flat, oval in outline, about 4 mm. long, yellowish 
white. 
Cotombpia: No definite locality. 1842, Sinelair s.n. Comisaria del 
Putumayo, Valley of Sibundoy, Sibundoy, altitude about 2225 m, 
‘*Kamsa name = ma-sha-kve.’’ February 16, 1941, R. FE. Schultes 3271, 
— Same locality. May 29, 1946, PR. EF. Schultes & M. Villareal 7616.— 
Departamento del Huila, San Agustin, Parque Arqueolégico, altitude 
1600-1700 m. Nombre vulgar=naranjilla.””, November 29, 1957, R. 
Romero-Castateda 6595,.—Comisaria del Putumayo, road from San 
Francisco to Mocoa, altitude about 2500 m. “‘Leaves purplish be- 
neath. Flowers white. Cultivated. Naranji/la.”’ July 27, 1960, RLF. 
Schultes 22549, 
Solanum quitoense, native apparently to Ecuador, 
grows best on the high, rainy but well drained slopes of 
Andean valleys between 4500 and 7500 feet, from south- 
ern Colombia to northern Peru. The plant requires about 
sixty inches of rain a year (McCann, L. P.: ‘* Ecuador's 
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