*44 The Botanical Gazette. [May, 



Some new Solaiuicet* from Guatemala. 



JOHN M. COULTER. 



Joh 



naceous plants from his recent Gautemalan collections. Among 

 them I find the following species which seem worthy of char- 

 acterization, although in the present confused state of our 

 knowledge concerning this perplexing group absolute certain- 

 ty seems unattainable. Without any desire of possibly mul- 

 tiplying synonymy these species are put on record as follows: 



Solaiiuin 



Said to be a vine, more 



or less rough with stellate hairs: prickles stout and subulate 

 or recurved, yellowish, especially stout on the stem, usually 

 more slender on the midrib and principal veins, copious or 

 scanty: leaves rather large and membranaceous, oblong or 

 ovate, sinuate-toothed or lobed, or even entire, 7 to 15 cm. 

 long, with equally 4 to 6-rayed hairs below, and central 

 division much elongated in the otherwise shorter-rayed hairs 

 above: the simple loose few-flowered racemes or cymes soon 

 lateral: calyx deeply 5-cleft, with stout often bulbous-dilated 

 prickles and mostly long-acuminate lobes: corolla 2.5 cm. or 

 more in diameter, whitish or light blue(?), deeply parted into 

 lance-linear lobes, which are thickly stellate-pubescent with- 

 out: anthers linear-lanceolate: the smooth globose berries be- 

 coming 1.5 to 2 cm. or more in diameter, turning red(?). 

 c SC o U oIw' P e P art - Ks cuintla, alt. 1100 ft., March 1890 (J. V. 

 iaoA ,cT ^ once P clon - depart. Escuintla, alt. 1200 ft., April 



1890 (J. 



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Juan M 



Brachistus Escnintlensis n. sp.— Glabrous throughout or 

 mmutely puberulent: leaves large and thin, ovate (often 

 broadly so), acute or acuminate, usually oblique at base and 

 more or less tapering into a petiole, entire or with a slightly 

 wavy margin, very unequal in size, the largest becoming 20 

 to 26 cm. long and 12 to 13 cm. broad: flowers on pedicels of 

 various lengths in umbellate axillary clusters along the main 

 stem or on leafy branches: the short and broadly clmpanulate 

 calyx with an entire margin (rarely a few almost indistin- 

 guishable teeth): corolla about 12 mm. long with 5 erect 

 lobes 4 or o mm. long: berry globose, 8 to 9 mm. in diam- 

 eter.— Escuintla, Depart. Escuintla, alt 1100 ft March 

 1890 (y. D. S. 2207). ' * 



