1296 CONTRIBUTIONS FEOM THE NATIONAL HERBAEIUM. 



"galantea" (Oaxaca, Reko) ; " friega-plato," " berenjena " (Veracruz); "ta- 

 baco Cimarron," " prendedera hedionda," " prendedera macho," " pendejera 

 macho" (Cuba); "berenjena de paloma," "berenjena cimarrona," " tabacon 

 pelado" (Porto Rico) ; " tapalayote " (El Salvador). 



The soft velvet-like leaves are used for cleaning dishes. They are also 

 heated and applied to the forehead to relieve headache, and applied as poul- 

 tices to ulcers and boils. 



24. Solanum plumense Fernald, Proc. Amer. Acad. 35: 569. 1900. 

 Type from Pluma, Oaxaca. 



Shrub, the branches very minutely stellate-puberulent ; leaves ovate-lanceo- 

 late, 10 to IS cm. long, long-acuminate, acutish to rounded at base, entire; 

 cymes long-pedunculate; corolla white, 1.5 cm. broad; fruit 1 cm. in diameter. 



25. Solanum bicolor Willd.; Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 4: 661. 1819. 

 Solanum callicarpi folium Kunth & Bouche, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 10. 1845. 

 Sinaloa to Chiapas and Yucatan. Lesser Antilles, Central America, and 



northern South America. 



Shrub, 1.5 to 3 meters high, the branches finely stellate-pubescent ; leaves 

 •elliptic to oblong-oblanceolate, usually 10 to 30 cm. long, acute or short-acumi- 

 nate, decurrent at base, entire, green above ; cymes long-pedunculate ; corolla 

 white, about 7 mm. long ; fruit 6 to 8 mm. in diameter, yellow. " Saca-man- 

 teca " (Sinaloa). 



26. Solanum aligerum Schlecht. Linnaea 19: 301. 1846. 



MichoacSn, Mexico, Hidalgo, and Veracruz ; type from Angangueo, Michoa- 

 cfin. 



Shrub or small tree; leaves short-petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, 16 cm. long 

 or less, acute at base, entire, glabrous above, barbate beneath along the costa 

 or when young loosely tomentose with branched hairs ; panicles pedunculate, 

 lax ; corolla white, 6 mm. long ; fruit glabrous, 1 cm. in diameter. 



27. Solanum cervantesii Lag. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 10. 1816. 

 Solanum piihigerum Dunal, Sol. Syn. 160. pi. 6. 1S16. 



San Luis PotosI and Guanajuato to Chiapas and Veracruz. Guatemala. 



Shrub, 1 to 4.5 meters high, the branches puberulent or glabrous ; leaves long- 

 petiolate, lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, 24 cm. long or less, acute or acuminate, 

 acute or decurrent at base, usually more or less pubescent beneath but often 

 glabrous; cymes long-pedunculate; corolla white, 5 to 7 mm. long; fruit black, 

 5 to 7 mm. in diameter. " Hierba del perro " (San Luis PotosI). 



The fruit is said to be eaten by children and to be harmless. 



28. Solanum nigrum L. Sp. PI. 186. 1753. 



Solanum americamim Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8. Solanum no. 5. 1768. 



Solanum oligospermum Bitter, Repert.Sp. Nov. Fedde 12: 80. 1913. 



Nearly throughout Mexico. Widely distributed in tropical and temperate 

 regions of both hemispheres. 



Usually herbaceous but sometimes w^oody and as much as 3 meters high, the 

 branches puberulent or villosulous; leaves long-petiolate, mostly ovate, 10 cm. 

 long or less, acute or acuminate, obtuse or rounded at base, sinuate-dentate or 

 frequently entire; umbels slender-pedunculate; corolla white or bluish, 2 to 

 4 mm. long; fruit 5 to 7 mm. in diameter, black. "Mora" (Jalisco, etc.); 

 " chuchilitas " (Sonora) ; " tohonchichi " (Oaxaca); " hierba mora " (Tamauli- 

 pas, Durango, San Luis Potosi, Oaxaca, Sonora, Cuba, Porto Rico, El Salvador, 



