spersed with white-stellate hairs ; nether surface very soft- 
ly and densely white-stellate-tomentulose; veins strong 
and conspicuous above and below, extremely densely 
white-stellate-tomentose. Inflorescence a lateral, very 
short-peduncled, few-flowered cyme. Flowers pedicel- 
late: pedicels up to 6 mm. long, 1.5—-2 mm. in diameter, 
very densely stellate-tomentulose. Calyx lobes somewhat 
crassulent, more or less triangular-ovate, apically suba- 
cute, up to about 15 mm. long, very densely and softly 
greyish brown-stellate-tomentose without, glabrous but 
with minute white scabs within. Corolla membranaceous, 
white or greenish white, lobes oblong-ovate, up to about 
20 mim. long, apically subacute, glabrous within, densely 
stellate-tomentulose without. Anthers yellow, erect, 
linear, about 9-10 mm. long. Style terete, 7-8 mm. long. 
Ovary globose, very densely long-white-sericeous. Fruit 
subglobose to ovoid, up to 4.5 (possibly 5) em. in diame- 
ter, ripening orange-red, sometimes tomato-red, densely 
and minutely stellate-tomentulose (hairs easily caducous 
upon handling), becoming subglabrous upon ripening. 
Pulp acidulous. Seeds very numerous, flat, oval in out- 
line, 8-4 mm. long, 2-2.5 mm. wide, pale yellowish. 
CoLtompia: Comisaria del Amazonas, Rio Caqueta, vicinity of La 
Pedrera. April 1944, R. FE. Schultes 5881.—Rio Loretoyacu, altitude 
about 100 m, September 1946, FR. FE. Schultes & G. A. Black 8394.— 
Rio Apaporis, Soratama, near mouth of Rio Kananari. “" Lulo. Topiri. 
Fruit ovoid, orange, covered with hair in unripe stage. Cultivated. 
Flowers whitish with yellow anthers.’’ March 1951, R. EF. Schultes 
1208 1.—Same locality. **Kubeo = be-td-ka. Taiwano =de-twd. Tatuya 
=de-twa. Cultivated.’’ September 1, 1951, R.E.Schultes & I.Cabrera 
13842. —Comisaria del Putumayo, Rio Putumayo, Puerto Asis. *‘Shrub 
up to 8 ft. Fruit orange-red, covered with caducous hairs. Leaves and 
petioles spineless. “‘Lu/o. Cocona.’’ August 2, 1960, R. EF. Schultes 
22571, —Comisaria del Vaupés, Rio Vaupés, Mitt. H. Garcia- Barriga, 
R. EF. Schultes & H. Blohm 157717. 
In the Vaupés and Amazonas of Colombia, the follow- 
ing Indian names are used tor Solanum Topiro: Karapana 
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