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306 SOLANACEAE, [Solanum. 
Cymes large corymbose, compound, measuring 4—6’ each way, the pe 
duncle 2‘, the fruit bearing pedicels thickened at the end and recurved, 
1‘ long. Corolla hairy inside and outside, 5—6“ in diameter, the short 
filaments ree at the rar 
E. and W. Maui! Ulupal 
Ao is ee variabil ty as = prickliness; while some specimens sid gs 2 pies 
it requires ie rch to discover them in others, and such may 
Pen with S. Sandwicense. 
+ var. glabratum. -— Leaves glabrate on both faces, only the young ones 
eats furfuraceous cua: elliptico-, rarely ovato-oblong, 2'/2—6’ x 
1'/4—2!/2', sinuate or almost entire. x glabrous. Corolla hispid ex- 
spiasat Berries ail ae on thickened grocri hh bacugt 
Tw mS: both with large and many-flowered c but prickly 
all past "he other qui rmed; E. Maui! Hamakua dad ‘i a ors sete ear 
on the stem only, the rhe mes a itttle developed and few-flow 
6. S. puberulum, Nutall. — Seem. in Journ. Bot. I, 207. — «Shrubby, 
the younger branches furfuraceo-tomentose, at length glabrate. Leaves 
geminate, one much smaller than its mate, ovate-oblong, 3—4' 2'; 
acuminate, quite entire, or sinuate-lobate with acute lobes, oblique at 
the base, farfuraceo -puberulous on both faces, ochraceo- tomentose when 
young. wers in simple racemes. Calyx glabrous, with lobes subulate, 
Vig—tia as ees as the tomentose deeply 5-parted corolla. Berry globose, 
9" in diam., on pedicels of 1‘. — S. puberulum and S. pulverulentum, Nutt. 
in herb. Brit. Mus. » 
In forests of Oahu (Nutt.); Sandw. Islds. (Menz. in herb. Brit. Mus.). No acco er 
oO the ies, it does phy ae to whic a 
of the two leading species it approaches. I have collected specimens in the fo: asi st 
w r tsa 
nch — and, verte ae ee ea serves ae for 
the label is lost, priceegs ng ang 
aa as — DC. Prod. XIII, 46. — A glabrous annual 
or Suis 1—2 ft. high. Leaves flaccid, ovate, 2—-4‘ < 1—2‘, with a few 
sinuate teeth or lobules in the low er half, or nearly entire, the rounded 
or contracted base shortly decurrent into a margined petiole of ijpd 
Flowers 4—8, subumbellate on peduncles of 9—12”, the puberulous P& 
dicels 4—6". Calyx 1”, with deltoid lobes. Corolla 2—3”, whitish, cleft 
to the middle. Stamens little shorter than the corolla, the anthers longe 
than their glabrous filaments, straight, oblong, broad at the top, with 
apical transverse chinks which finally extend down the sides. Style as 
long as the anthers, pubescent, incurved above. -“— Nem peer in 
diameter, pulpy. Seeds small obovate. — §. oleraceum, Dun., with many 
other species of the Morella section. — The Shee rise from ee upper 
‘half of an internode, often from under the next upper leaf pair. 
