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narrowed at the base, strongly pinnately veined, the petioles 6-9 
mm. long; stipules narrow, obtuse, deciduous, I cm. long; panicles 
rather loosely flowered, 7 cm. long or less, minutely bracteolate; 
pedicels 2-3 mm. long; calyx tube obconic, 2 mm. long, the limb 
with 5 short rounded lobes; corolla white, 4 mm. long, its narrowly 
oblong lobes twice as long as the tube; filaments about as long 
as the corolla, the scale near the base of each with a dense tuft 
of white hairs; stigmas one fourth as long as the style. 
Monte Jiquarito, Sierra Maestra, Oriente, Cuba, at about 
1,100 meters altitude, September 18, 1906, Norman Taylor 515. 
The genus has been hitherto known only from the South 
American Andes. 
20. NOTES ON SPECIES OF SOLANUM 
SoLANUM BLopGETTII Chapm. 
This species is cited by Mr. O. E. Schulz* as a synonym of 
Solanum bahamense subarmatum (Willd.) O. E. Schulz, but he has 
wholly misunderstood its type specimens, which show that it 
is more nearly related to S. verbascifolium than to S. bahamense; 
it grows plentifully on Key West, Florida (Blodgett, type; Merrill; 
Pollard, Collins & Morris 3; Britton 520; Lansing 1969), in the 
Florida Everglades (Britton 237; Small & Wilson 1678, 1962; 
Small & Carter 2674, 2675, 2936, 3101), and is to be added to the 
West Indian Flora, as it occurs on Cat Cay, Bahamas (Millspaugh 
2341; Brace 3749). 
The varietal name Solanum bahamense subarmatum, under which 
Mr. Schulz groups nearly or quite unarmed specimens of S. 
bahamense, is redundant, for there is every transition from very 
prickly plants to entirely unarmed ones throughout the range 
of the species, individual bushes often bearing prickles below 
and being quite devoid of them above. Harris 8169, from 
Plowden Hill, Jamaica, as represented by our specimen, is un- 
armed, though the duplicate of it, examined by Mr. Schulz, is 
referred by him to the typical prickly form. 
SOLANUM BOLDOENSE A. DC. 
This interesting Cuban vine is apparently of quite local 
distribution at widely separated - stations; about Matanzas — it 
* Urban, Symb. Anit: 6: 223. 
