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VI. Monograph of the East Indian Solaneee. By Christian Godfrey Nees von 

 EsENBECK, M.D. F.M.L.S., President of the Imperial Academy Nature 

 Curiosorum, and Professor of Botany in the University of Breslau. 



Read November 20th, and December 18th, 1832. 



SOLANE.E. 



Rob. Brown, Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. i. p. 443. ed. N. ah E. p. 299. Juss. Gen. 

 p.\2A. Lindl. Synops. p. 180. Introduct. p. 231. Bartl.Ord. Nat. pp.122, 

 et 193. 



I. SOLANUM. 



Calyx quadrl- quinque- octo- decem-fidus dentatusve persistens. Corolla 

 rotata rariusve campanulata plicata, quadri— quinque-fida vel sinuato- 

 angulata. Anthera; conniventes apice poro gemino dehiscentes, sequales 

 vel inferiores quaedam magis productee. Bacca bi- rarius pluri-locularis, 

 polysperma, nuda. Semina glabra. 



Sect. 1. Maurella. 

 A. Pedicellis fructus pedunculum communem (fortiorem) subsequantibus 



(vel superantibus). 

 1. Solanumjistulosum, Rich. 



S. annuum, ramosum, caule fistuloso angulato, foliis ovatis acumine obtuso 

 subrepandis basi in petiolum anguste decurrentibus, pedicellis fructus 

 pedunculum communem aequantibus, (polline flavo). 

 «. Baccis nigris. 



Solanum fistulosum. Rich., Dunal Syn. p. 12. n. 49. R. et Sch. S. V. iv. 



p. 587. 

 Solanum nigrum fructu nigro e Kurigong in Herb. Hamilt. Wall. Catal. 



n. 2615, F. 

 Solanum Rhinocerotis. Blume, Bydragen, p. 695 ? 



