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densely muricate, but the lobes of the latter (12“ long) free to the base, 
Bracts lanceolate, 15—18"; bractlets 6“. Flowers wanting. 
+7 Calycine ae narrow, l-nerved. Corolla suberect, slender. Upper 
anthers not 
solanacea, sp. n. -—- A stout freely branching shrub, 6—8 ft. 
the ae Rceiien. pamteret aculeate with slender straw-colored 
thorns. Leaves of young plants deeply cut into sharp sinuate segments, 
the stem, icles ribs and nerves bristling on both faces with thorns, 
which resemble those of Solanum aculeatissinum. Leaves of adult plants 
obovate-oblong, 10—13/  3—5‘, on petioles of 1—1!/2 ‘, shortly acuminate, 
contracting at the base, sinuate or lobed, the blunt inbas seldom exceeding 
lo‘ in depth, hispidulous underneath, unarmed, thick chartaceous, with 
prominent veins. Peduncle fleshy, 1—2‘, bracteate from the base, but 
bearing flowers only near the apex; pedicels 4—6“; bracts 1—2”. ) 
green, glabrous, the tube obconical, 4“, the lobes oblong, truncate, 2—4", 
thick fleshy, 1-nerved, apiculate, with intervening sinuses. Corolla white, 
seal the upper anthers beardless. Stigmatic hairs in a ring; style 
ao obovoid, 8” long, orange-colored. Seeds reddish, smooth. 
ai! Kalae, Mo; Benet and elsewhere, 1000 to 2000 ft. Psy snd ange on account 
of the acne of the leaf to forms of Solanum incomp 
. B var. quercifolia. — Leaves larger, 11—20' * 3} ee thicker, scabrous 
on the upper, hispid on the lower face, with prominent nerves, the lobes 
deeper and rounded, cut to the rhachis at the narrow base. Calyx glab- 
rous, the lobes 2“. Corolla as pio but glabrous; the staminal column 
= anthers pubeeen Berry 8 
. Maui! Ulu a and Hamakua, - elevations of 3000—4000 ft.  Attains the size 
we @ small tree, 15 ff. high. 
17. C. ferox, sp. n. — Size and habit of the preceding species, the 
branches bristling with thorns. Leaves of young plants bipinnatisect, to 
the rhachis in the lower portion, and covered with spines; those of the 
adult plant oblanceolate in outline, 10—12’ X 3—4", deeply cut into patent 
oblong sinuate segments of 1—2‘ in depth which shorten to auricles at 
the base, on petioles of 1'/:—2', papilloso-hispid on the upper, scabro- 
ra on the lower face, thick chartaceous, W with prominent nerves, not 
eate. Peduncle (with buds) 1‘ long, floriferous at the end. Calyx 
aa de the lobes I-nerved, oblong, obtuse, apiculate, longer than 
Molokai! heights of Kamalo. 
8 var. — Leaves thinner, pinnatisect to near the rib. Berry glabrate 
Pinnae or 
and smooth, ovoid, 7’ long, the linear-oblong lobes 7—9". 
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