304 SOLANACEAE, [Solanum. 
very short filaments. Style as long as the corolla, straight, with a 2-grooved 
a tough rind. Seeds large discoid, winged. — Griseb. Fl. W 
— S. xanthocarpum, Seem. in Fl. Vit. faces chra 
ere an ere in the lower regions of all islands. The scarlet berries, strung into 
wreaths or leis, are worn as neck-ornaments by the native wome he name «Popolo» 
applies a to other species of the genus a curs for such with eager mo 
sig in oe (« pe srk Viti (»Boro») i New Zealand. A native of Mexico and 
zil, but occurring also in S$. Africa an 
2.5. N eink Banal in DC. aa ner 123. — A low shrub, unarmed, 
the sarmentose branches covered with a brownish- -yellow stellate tomentum, 
as is the inflorescence. Leaves cordate-ovate to suborbicular, 11/2—2‘ 
—1%'s‘, on petioles of 5—9”, obtuse, quite entire, thick, clothed on both 
faces with a dense tomentum, paler below ; the second leaf, when present, 
much smaller. Cymes few-flowered, longer than the leaves, the peduncle 
about 1‘. Calyx tomentose, 5-fid into ovate obtuse or narrow lobes. Corolla 
tomentose, 3 times longer than the calyx, 6” in diameter, strongly plaited. 
Anthers twice as long as their filaments, short, attenuate at the apex, 
not incurved, opening by apical bye Ovary Salty. Berry 4—5" in 
diam. — Gray, in Proc, Am. Ac. VI, — 8S. rotundifolium, Nutt. 
Hawaii (Nelson); isthmus of Maui (U. 8. . ‘E); Oahu! (Remy); Kauai (Nattall). 
8 var. thomasiaefolium. — Leaves sinuately lobed with 5—7 lobes. Berry 
globoue, as large as pea. — Seem. in Fl. Vit. p.174. — S. vestitum, Nutt. 
in herb. Brit. Mus. 
Kauai (Nuttall). 
- Sandwicense, Hook. d Arn. in Bot. Beech. p. 92. — shrubby, 
ad annie: 4—6 ft. high, the branches canescent with a short cine- 
os 
~*~ 1—4', on petioles of 1—2‘, bluntly acuminate, 
su ubentire, sinuate or angular-sinuate, rounded at t the base ve 
deeper de hetevtinds on one side, chartacoous, the upper face sortakied with 
an evanescent stellate pubescence, Cymes 2—3‘ long, corymbiform with 
divaricate, at last refl , branches, ‘ee common peduncle 1/2—1/, the 
Pedicels 6—8" when with fruit. Calyx 1—1!/2“,. its lobes triangular 
2 apical pores. Style short, villous is also the young ovary. ns 
globose, b) black, 4—6” in dhaainiee —_ oe 2200. 1c. ate — Gray, 1. 
p. 43. — S. Woahense » Dunal, in DC. Prod. 1. ¢. p. 
auai! not uncommon. Sait cymes: often appeat 
wers drop Without being fecundated. 
