THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



SOI.ANUM. 867 



of low slender growth, the entire plant covered 

 thickly with glistening orange coloured spines. 

 Flowers an inch across, bluish- violet. Mada- 

 gascar. 



S. QUERCIFOI.IUM. — A hardy perennial 

 irom Peru, growing 3 to 5 ft. high, with 



large white flowers are violet and woolly on 

 the outside, succeeded by yellow fruits like a 

 small orange, at first woolly, then smooth, shin- 

 ing, and of agreeable flavour. It needs a warm 

 place and a warm season to do well. Peru. 

 S. ROBUSTUM is a much-branched shrub of 



deeply-lobed Oak-like leaves of 3 to 4 ins. 

 and large violet flowers. 



S. QUITOENSE.— A shrubby plant of three 

 feet, with downy violet stems and broad 

 woolly leaves, heart-shaped, green threaded 

 with violet, and reddish-purple beneath. The 



4 ft., ita bleuia and leaf-ribs set with sharp 

 spines and dense red hairs. The leaves are 

 large, sharply oval, and bluntly lobed, or 

 nearly triangular higher on the stems, green 

 and velvety above, yellow and woolly beneath. 

 The flowers are white with orange stamens, 

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