l66 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. [Proc. 3D Ser. 



y 3. Solanum wallacei. 



Solanum xanti wallacei Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., Vol. XI, 1876, p. 90; in 

 Brew. & W.\ts. Hot. Calif., Vol. I, 1876, p. 539; Syn. Fl., Vol. II, Pt. i, 

 1878, p. 229. Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. Sci., Vol. I, 1885, p. 226; id.. 

 Vol. II, 1887, p. 408. Lyon, Bot. Gaz., Vol. XI, 1886, pp. 204, 334, 336. 

 Brandegee, Zoe, Vol. I, 1890, p. 143. Franceschi, Zoe, Vol. IV, 

 1893, p. 137. Davidson, PI. Los Angeles Co., p. 21 (1896). Trask, 

 Erythea, Vol. VII, 1899, p. 140. 



Solanum xanti Watson (not Gray), Proc. Am. Acad., Vol. XI, 1876, p. 117. 



Suffrutescent, "often forming round masses; " stems about a meter long, 

 densely tawny-villous with long, multilocular, viscidly glanduliferous hairs 

 which are unbranched, or usually a few once-branched; leaves thickish, 

 sometimes pustulose, usually less densely villous than the stems, crenate 

 margined, the lower ample, cordate, the upper ovate, rounded, or subcordate 

 at base; calyx narrowly funnel-form, deeply cleft, or wider and less deeply 

 divided; corolla 2-4 cm. wide; style glabrate, or villous below; ripe fruit dark 

 purple. 



Habitat: Islands off the Coast of California and Lower 

 California, and near the seacoast in Central California. 



California (Brandegee [G]); Central California (429 

 Palmer [A]); 



Los Angeles County (Santa Catalina Island, Wallace, 

 type [G] ; 76 Lyon, 1885 [G] ; McClatchie, Nov., 1893 

 [P]; Mrs. Trask, Dec, 1894 [A, N]); 



Santa Barbara County (Santa Cruz Island, Greene, 

 1886 [A]; U. S. S. Albatross, Feb., 1889 [A]) (Santa 

 Rosa Island, Brandegee [A]) (Santa Barbara [no collect- 

 or's name] Jan., 1892 [A]) (Santa Inez Mountains, Brande- 

 gee, 1888 [A]) ; 



San Louis Obispo County (Mrs. Blochman, May, 1893 

 [A]; 428 Palmer, June, 1876 [A]); 



Marin County (Miss Eastwood, Oct., 1896 [A]). 



Mexico (Guadaloupe Island, 62 Palmer, 1875 [G] ; 

 Greene, April, 1885 [P]; Franceschi, Jan., 1893 [A 

 (much reduced form), N, P, U]). 



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Solanum wallacei viridis. 



Stout, erect, glabrate, or above hispidulous; hairs mostly reduced to a 

 single cell; leaves ovate, cordate, or rounded at base; calyx cup-shaped, with 

 short lobes. 



