338 BRITTON: STUDIES OF WEsT INDIAN PLANTS 
Solanum ierense sp. nov. 
A shrub about 2 m. high, the slender unarmed branches diver- 
gent, glabrous, the young twigs stellate-pubescent. Leaves thin, 
ovate or elliptic-ovate, 5 cm. long or less, delicately pinnately 
few-veined, sparingly stellate-pubescent above, densely stellate- 
pubescent beneath, the apex acute or obtuse, the base obtuse or 
narrowed, the slender petioles 4-10 mm. long; flowers solitary or 
geminate (rarely 3) in the axils on nearly filiform pubescent 
peduncles 2.5 cm. long or less; calyx stellate-pubescent, 5—7-cleft, 
the lobes linear-lanceolate, acuminate; corolla white, 5—6-cleft, its 
lobes linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 10 mm. long; stamens 5 or 6, 
all alike, the anthers somewhat attenuate, 8 mm. long, the fila- 
ments I-2 mm. long; immature berry globose, about 7 mm. in 
diameter. 
Hillside, Chacachacare, Trinidad (Britton, Freeman and Watts 
2706). In flower and young fruit April 3, 1921. 
Solanum Hazenii sp. nov. 
A tree up to about 5 m. high with a woody trunk about 1.5 
dm. in diameter. Leaves broadly elliptic, rather thin and flaccid, 
10-20 cm. long, 8-15 cm. wide, strongly pinnately veined on the 
under side, the apex short-acuminate, the base obtuse, the upper 
surface finely stellate when young, glabrous when old, the under 
surface persistently stellate-tomentulose, the stout, stellate-tomer- 
tulose petioles 3 or 4 cm. long; inflorescence stalked, about 
equalling the leaves, many-flowered, tomentulose; pedicels short; 
flower-buds subglobose, rounded, tomentulose; calyx tomentulose, 
deeply lobed, 5 mm. long, the lobes obtuse; corolla white, 20 
mm. broad, 5-lobed to below the middle, the lobes broadly ovate, 
acute; stamens all alike, the anthers 3 mm. long, about twice as 
long as the filaments; berry globose, black, about 8 mm. in diam- 
Cter.. 
Hillsides, northwestern parts of Trinidad mainland and on the 
adjacent Bocas Islands. Type from Saddle Road (Britton and 
Hazen 156). 
Solanum capillipes sp. nov 
A shrub, about 2 m. high, the slender young branches pilose, 
‘the older branches glabrous. Leaves oblong-elliptic to elliptic- 
lanceolate, membranous, all alike, pinnately veined, glabrous, 
somewhat darker green above than beneath, 10-15 cm. long, 
3-6 cm. wide, ‘ besa appa the slightly inequilateral base narrowed, 
the petio tioles about I cm. long; racemes lateral, fox Bowered, 
