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19. Solanuni plurifurcipilum Bitter, Repert. Sp. Nov. Fedde 11: 15. 1912. 

 Type from Pacho Forest, near Jalapa, Veracruz, altitude 1,200 meters. 

 Slirub, 0.5 to 1 meter liigh, the stems pubescent with coarse branched hairs ; 



leaves short-petiolate, ovate-oblong or ovate, 7.5 cm. long or less, acute, short- 

 decurrent at base, entire ; umbels short-pedunculate ; corolla white, about 1 

 cm. broad. 



The description of 8. ulmoides Dunal i is strongly suggestive of this plant. 



20. Solanum jaliscanum Greenm. Proc. Amer, Acad. 34: 571. 1899. 

 Barranca near Guadalajara, Jalisco, altitude 1,200 meters, the type locality. 

 Shrub, the branches stellate-pubescent ; leaves ovate-oblong or lance-oblong, 



13 cm. long or less, acute or obtuse, acute at base, entire, finely stellate- 

 pubescent ; umbels short-pedunculate ; corolla about 1 cm. broad ; fruit 1 cm. 

 in diameter, glabrous. 



21. Solanum. umbellatum Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8. Solanum no. 27. 1768. 

 Solanum granuloso-leprosuiu Dunal in DC. Prodr. 13': 115. 1852. 

 Solanum cortex-virens Dunal in DC. Prodr. IS^: 372. 1852. 



Solanum receptum Heurck & Muell. Arg. ; Heurck, Obs. Bot. 1 : 46. 1870. 



Sonora to Tamaulipas, Veracruz, and Oaxaca. West Indies and Central 

 America. 



Shrub or small tree, 1 to 6 meters high ; leaves oblong-elliptic to oblanceo- 

 late, 20 cm. long or less, acuminate, long-attenuate at base, finely stellate- 

 pubescent above, green, beneath pubescent with branched, chiefly stipitate 

 hairs ; cymes dense, many-flowered, long-pedunculate ; corolla white, 7 to 9 

 mm. long ; fruit yellow, 1 to 1.5 cm. in diameter. " Berenjena " ( Sinaloa ) ; 

 " cazaniche " (Villada) ; " friega-plato " (Nicaragua); " prendedera macho" 

 (Cuba) ; " tapalayote " (El Salvador). 



The specimens which belong here have nearly always been referred to 

 /S. callicarpifoUuin Kunth & Bouche. 



22. Solanum salviifolium Lam. Tabl. Encycl. 2: 14. 1793. 



Solanum geminifoUum {" geminiflonim") Schlecht. Linnaea 5: 112. 1830. 



Solanum schlechtendalianum Walp. Repert. Bot. 3: 61. 1844-45. 



Michoacan or Guerrero to Chiapas, Tabasco, and Veracruz. West Indies 

 and Central America. 



Shrub or small tree, 2 to 4.5 meters high, the branches densely stellate-tomen- 

 tose ; leaves often subsessile, lance-oblong to broadly ovate, 15 cm. long or less, 

 acuminate, rounded or subcordate at base, green above, usually glabrate, 

 densely and finely stellate-tomentose beneath with whitish hairs ; cymes long- 

 pedunculate, becoming lateral ; corolla white, 7 mm. long or less ; fruit 7 mm. 

 in diameter, glabrate. 



23. Solanum verbascifolium L. Sp. PI. 184. 1753. 



Nearly throughout Mexico except Baja California. Southern Florida ; Cen- 

 tral America ; Old World tropics. 



Shrub or small tree, 2 to 10 meters high, the branches finely stellate-tomen- 

 to.se ; leaves petiolate, ovate to lanceolate, 25 cm. long or less, acute or acumi- 

 nate, rounded at base or decurrent, entire, velvetj'-tomentose on both sur- 

 faces ; cymes long-pedunculate ; corolla white, 7 to 9 mm. long ; fruit yellowish, 

 6 to 12 mm. in diameter. " Salvadora " (Tamaulipas); " saca-manteca " 

 (Sinaloa); " guardolobo " (Nuevo Le6n) ; " xtuhuy," " tom-paap," " xaxox " 

 (Yucatan, Maya) ; " zoza " or " sosa " (Morelos, Veracruz, San Luis PotosI) ; 

 " hierba de San Pedro" (Nuevo Le6n) ; " hoja de manteca " (Consatti) ; 



'In DC. Prodr. 13': 130. 1852. 



