174 RYDBERG: SOLANUM IN MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA 
from seed from Costa Rica or Nicaragua. No wild specimens 
have been seen by me. 
31. SOLANUM SUAVEOLENS Kunth & Bouché, Ind. Sem. 
Hort. Berol. 1848: 14. 1848 
This resembles S. verrucosum in habit, but the flowers are 
smaller, white and more deeply lobed and the articulation of 
the pedicels strictly basal. No tuber has been found. Bitter* 
proposed three varieties, glabrescens, plhicphyllidium, and chala- 
rophyes, apparently on _ trifling characters. The following 
specimens belong to the species: 
Mexico: Zacudpan, Purpus 6329. 
Costa Rica: Cock & Doyle 329: Tonduz 11495, Kuntze 
53: 
NicArAGua: Volcan Mombacks, Baker 34. 
32. Solanum canense Rydberg sp. nov. 
A perennial, probably without tubers; stem herbaceous, 1-2 
segments g-II, lanceolate, acuminate, minutely granular- 
puberulent on both — sometimes with a few scattered hairs 
on the veins, the terminal one 5-10 cm. long, the lateral ones 
stalked, the pecs OC I-3 cm. long, the blades 3 —8 cm. long, 
oblique at the base; intermittent segments 5-20 mm. wn 
dm. iis (below the forking), 2-forked, the branches 5-10 
long; pedicels 1-1.5 cm. long, articulate at the base; esis 
puberulent, the tube 1.5 mm. long, the lobes ovate, less ‘than 1 
mm. long; —— white, star-shaped; fruit globose, about 1.5 
cm. in diame 
Type Sisal between April 17 and June 8, 1908 in the 
vicinity of Cana, Panama at an altitude of 2500 feet, R. S. 
Wilhams 844 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
a i picgcictsr's 
Style psi than the 
Lea and ee Soaring hairy; leaf-seg- 
ea 4, Tartly §; theca eo oe ie, : 33. S. appendiculata. 
Leaves and branches Se hairy; teaf-segments 
7\;Tarely §, firmer... is8ie ea ee 34. S. subvelutinum. 
Style much longer than the stamens; leaf-segments 
mostly 5, moderately pubescent................ 35. S. inscendens. 
*Repert. 11: 352-354- 1912. 
