176 RYDBERG: SOLANUM IN MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA 
the lower pair if present much smaller; inflorescence at the ends 
of the leafy branches, 6—10-flowered, 2-forked and again branched; 
common peduncle 1-2 cm. long, finely pilose; pedicels glabrous, 
about I cm. long, articulate at the base; calyx sparingly — 
the tube scarcely I mm. long, the lobes broadly ovate, 1.5 m 
long; corolla about 5 mm. high and broad, star-shaped, the ie 
broadly ovate; anthers broadly oblong; 2—2.5 mm. long, Sei 
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at each end; aby - mm. long, more than twice as long he 
stamens, in a rved; stigma capitate; fruit globose, = mm. 
in diameter enkledg fully ‘develop ed. 
Type collected on Soy January, 1906, at an altitude 
of 8000 ft., C. A. Purpus 1733 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
Apparently the same species in fruit was collected near 
Cataract, Orizaba, Vera Cruz, in 1883, A. Gray. 
There are a few species reported from Mexico or Central 
America, of which I have seen no specimens and which I cannot 
place in my key 
SOLANUM MURICATUM PARVIFOLIUM H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & 
Sp.'3: at. 1818: 
The type of S. muricatum came from Peru, and no specimen 
of the subsection Basarthrum with simple leaves has been seen 
from Mexico. The name parvifclium cannot be used as specific 
name, however, as it has already been used as such. It is a pos- 
sibility that this variety is the same as S. merelliforme Bitter. 
SOLANUM SCHENCK! Bitter, Repert. 11: 448. 1912. 
SOLANUM SCHIZOSTIGMA Bitter, Repert. 11: 449. 1912. 
Both these species are related to S. nwbercsum. The types are’ 
both in the Berlin herbarium. No specimens answering the 
descriptions have been seen by me. 
New YorkK BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
