names, it grows subspontaneously and is semi-cultivated 
along roadsides and the edges of cultivated land. 
Solanum straminifolium Jacquin Misc. 2 (1781) 
298, 
Shrub up to about 6 ft. tall. Trunk and basal parts 
of woody branches and branchlets heavily armed with 
spines. Leaves membranaceous, dark green above, grey- 
green (in life) beneath, ovate in outline, up to about 80 
cm. long, 16-25 cm. wide, basally unequally truncate, 
apically acute, marginally very deeply sinuate, strongly 
petiolate (petiole up to 9 em. long, 0.5 cm. in diameter, 
armed with strong spines protruding at right angles, 
sparsely stellate): upper surface very remotely stellate- 
pubescent, otherwise subglabrous; nether surface very 
densely white-stellate; veins conspicuous, armed above 
and below with relatively stout spines. Inflorescence a 
lateral, stout-peduncled, few-flowered cyme (peduncles 
up to 1.8 cm. long). Flowers pedicellate, pedicels up to 
8 min. long, white-stellate-pubescent. Calyx cup-shaped, 
leathery, inconspicuously 5-dentate, up to 8 mm. long, 
glabrous within, densely yellow- or white-stellate with- 
out. Corolla white with oblong lobes up to 9 mm. long, 
apically subacute, glabrous within, extremely densely 
white-stellate without. Anthers erect, yellow, linear, 
usually shorter than corolla. Style clavate, up to 4.5 mm. 
long. Ovary densely stellate. Fruit globose, up to about 
3 cm. in diameter, red, densely and very minutely stel- 
late but subglabrescent when ripe. Seeds numerous. 
CotompBia: Comisaria del Vaupés, Rio Piraparana, altitude 250-600 
m. “‘Arbusto de 2 m. Flores blaneas.** August 27-31, 1952. H. 
Garcia- Barriga 14256.— Rio Vaupés, Cachivera de Yurupari, altitude 
400 m. “"N. v. cobuia (Kubeo). Yerba 1 m. Flores blaneas; frutos 
rojos.”” October 24-26, 1952. H. Garcia-Barriga 14946. 
It would seem that the collections cited above may be 
referred to Solanum straminifolium, although much more 
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