NEW SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PTANTS 113 
mm. long, the filaments nearly a third of the total length, the 
anthers linear-oblong, straight, not acuminate, the pores look- 
ing upward and slightly inward. Berry oval, about 1 cm. 
long 
“Trailing 4 to 5 feet. Local in damp open places, clearings, 
etc., 4,000 to 6,000 feet. Collected on Sierra del Libano, 6,000 
feet. January 23 and March 18. (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, 
No. 1175). | 
Solanum penduliflorum. 
Specimen consisting of the end of a branch, in young fruit 
and bearing a single flower. 
Stellate-puberulent throughout, the branch slender, strongly 
striate, the petioles strongly deflexed at the base. Petioles 
6 to 20 mm. long, slender, striate o1 costate, sometimes twining, 
the blades 4 to 5 cm. long, 2 to 3 cm. broad, ovate with lightly 
cordate base and short-acuminate and acute summit, the slender 
than the others, the anthers 4 mm. long, na 
the pores large, looking upward and laterally. Berry globose, 
8 or 9 mm. broad. ; : 
"A vine, 15 feet long. Second growth. Alluvial soil, 
lí mile from coast, Don Diego, May 5. Only one plant ps 
mostly in fruit, the corolla white, the berry purplish." Herbert 
H. Smith, No. 2661.) 
2 Solanum scorpioideum. 
hortly, densely and harshly stellate 
ferruginous. Branches woody, deep-pur 
ed h sho 
sparsely hairy, sparsely arm Bape Ere yellow prickles, 
ioles (only the upper leaves 
caress aba wi armed like 
ng and 17 cm. broad, 
ounded sub-cordate base 
d acutish summit, thick, 
riangular-ovate 
