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New SPECIES or SOUTH AMERICAN Prants 115 
February 10. Corolla white," may be the same, though the 
flowers are smaller, and the corolla is less deeply lobed. 
Solanum sacupanense. 
rmed with few small, short, recurved laterally compressed 
Yellow prickles. Finely and closely grayish stellate-hairy and 
e shinmg fruit. 
elongated, sub-erect. Longer petioles 2 cm. long, broad, 
channelled above, the blades 5 to 10 cm. long, 2.5 to 5 cm. broad, 
eath, th principal secondaries 8 or 9 on each side, Vibe 
falcate Vier crooked, connected by the few tertiaries. 
mes sub-sessile, simple, few- -flowered, spreading or recu neve 
Pedicels slender, thickened upward, in flower 5 or 6 mm. long, 
in fruit 10 to 12 mm. Calyx Goteta. lobed about half way, 
the tube 3 mm. broad, the lobes ovate, acute, appressed. Corolla 
white, lobed nearly to the base, the lobes widely spreading, 1 
cm. long, lanceolate, acuminate, Stamens nearly 1 cm. long, 
the white filaments nearly a third of the total length, the LL 
acuminate, nearly straight, the small pores directed up 
Fruiting calyx slightly ‘enlarged the berry yellow bot MET 
shining, globose, 1 cm. broad. 
Sacupana, lower Orinoco, April (Rusby and Squires, No. 22. ) 
Very near to Fendlers 983 from Tovar. Species near $e 
heterophya. 
Solanum deltoideum. 
Unarmed and p. un throughout. or the younger 
portions tomentose. Apparently herbaceous, the branchlets 
widely spreading, coarse but ak: sub-terete. Petioles 2 cm. 
r than the pedicels, 
narrow, acuminate, the sinuses very bro 
Berry globose, more than 1 cm. broad, apparently red, glabrous. 
Yungas, Bolivia, 1890 M. Bang, No. 740.) 
This was published as S. montanum R. & P., but a better 
acquaintance with that species proves it distinct. 
