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This species may not be correctly placed in the key. It is known to the 

 writer only from description. 



40. Solanum lanceif olium Jacq. Coll. Bot. 2 : 286. 1788. 



Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosi, and Veracruz. West Indies, Central America, 

 and northern South America. 



Shrub, usually scandent, the branches stellate-pubescent; leaves petiolate, 

 ovate to oblong, 15 cm. long or less, acute or obtuse, acute to rounded at base, 

 sparsely stellate-pubescent above, densely so beneath and usually prickly; 

 inflorescences lateral, few-flowered, racemiform ; corolla white, 9 to 12 mm. 

 long ; fruit red, 6 to 9 mm. in diameter. 



41. Solanum hirtum Vahl, Symb. Bot. 2: 40. 1791. 

 Solanum flavescens Dunal ; Poir. Encycl. Suppl. 3: 778. 1813. 

 Solanum molestum T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 7: 331. 1920. 

 Veracruz and Yucatan. Guatemala ; West Indies and northern South 



America. 



Shrub, 2.5 meters high or less, the branches stellate-tomentose, densely 

 prickly; leaves broadly ovate to suborbicular, 20 cm. long or less, acute or 

 obtuse, cordate at base, sinuate-lobate, prickly, at least beneath, densely stel- 

 late-tomentose beneath ; inflorescences lateral, 2 to 8-flowered ; calyx 1 cm. 

 long, deeply parted, the lobes obtuse or acutish ; corolla white, 1.5 cm. long; 

 fruit about 2 cm. in diameter, yellow, covered with long yellow hairs. 



42. Solanum tequilense A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 22: 441. 1887. 

 Solanum huitlamim T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 192. 1915. 

 Tepic to Chiapas ; type from Tequila, Jalisco. Guatemala. 



Erect shrub, the branches stellate-tomentose, densely covered with long 

 stout prickles; leaves oval to rounded-ovate, 40 cm. long or less, obtuse or 

 acute, rounded or subcordate at base, densely stellate-tomentose, sinuate-re- 

 pand, usually prickly on both surfaces, the prickles sometimes 3 cm. long; 

 inflorescences few-flowered ; fruit 2.5 to 3.5 cm. in diameter. 



43. Solanum mammosum L. Sp. PI. 187. 1753. 



Reported from Veracruz by Hemsley, but perhaps erroneously ; reported from 

 Mexico by O. E. Schulz.i West Indies ; Central and South America. 



Plants herbaceous or suftrutescent, 1.5 meters high or less, densely pilose 

 with long articulate hairs; leaves nearly as broad as long, 10 to 15 cm. long, 

 shallowly cordate at base, irregularly lobate, the lobes obtuse or acute, usu- 

 ally armed on both surfaces with long stout prickles ; inflorescences umbelli- 

 form, lateral, 1 to 6-flowered ; corolla violaceous, about 2 cm. long ; fruit 3 to 

 4.5 cm. in diameter, orange. " Berenjena " (Veracruz) ; " berenjenita peluda " 

 (Tabasco, Rovirosa) ; " pichichio " (Costa Rica); "una de gato " (Panama); 

 "chichimora" (El Salvador); " chichihua " (Honduras); " chichigua," " chi- 

 chita," "marimbita amarilla," " chichona " (Nicaragua); " rejalgar " (Co- 

 lombia); "berenjena cimarrona," "berenjena de marimbo " (Porto Rico); 

 "giiirito" (Cuba); " chicha " (Guatemala). 



The fruit is said to be very poisonous. In Costa Rica a decoction of the 

 leaves is employed as a remedy for diseases of the kidneys and bladder. In 

 El Salvador the seeds are said to be used as a remedy for colds. 



44. Solanum aculeatissimum Jacq. Icon. PL Rar. 5. pi. Jfl. 1781-86. 

 Veracruz. Florida, West Indies, Central and South America; also in the 



Old World tropics. 



'In Urban, Symb. Antill. 6: 206. 1909. 



