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A tree. Allied to S. membranaceum, Wall. (S. subtruncatum, Wall.), 
but calyx quite truncate, and without those minute teeth found in that 
of S. membranaceum. 
4. S. (§ Morelle vere) Forsteri, Seem. ; herbaceum, annuum, bre- 
viter villoso-tomentosum demum glabrescens, caule inermi vix an- 
gulato geniculato-flexuoso, foliis ovatis acuminatis integerrimis v. 
sinuato-dentatis basi cordatis v. in petiolum attenuatis, cymis extra- 
axillaribus 3-6-floris, pedicellis cernuis, calycis laciniis ovatis acutis, 
corolla extus tomentella, bacca globosa glabra pisi magnitudine.—S. 
nigrum, Forst. Prodr. n. 106, non Linn.— Easter Island (Forster / in 
Herb. Mus. Brit.), Tahiti (Nelson / ; Sir J. Banks /), Vavao, Friendly 
Islands (Barclay /). ; 
This species is much nearer to 8. villosum, Lam., than S. nigrum, 
Linn., but the leaves are generally less deeply cut than they are in $. 
villosum, and in only one specimen, collected by Sir J. Banks in Tahiti, 
do there occur any deep indentations. Forster's specimen, from 
Easter Island, is much more hairy than the Tahitian or Tongan speci- 
mens, The flowers and berries are much smaller than in the true S- 
nigrum. Solander, in his MS. volume, included the Tahitian speci- 
mens under the name of S. rubrum, but he describes the berry as black. 
5. S. oleraceum, Dun., in De Cand. Prod. xiii. sect. 1, p. 50. No- 
men vernaculum Vitiense, “ Boro ni yaloka ni gata. "— Viti Islands (See- 
mann! n. 344), Sandwich Islands (Nuttall! in Mus. Brit.), Norfolk 
Island (Milne / in Herb. Hook.), Society Islands (Banks and Solander !). 
I have also seen it wild about Sydney. 
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S. astroites, Forst., from the Society Islands, may positively bea 
synonym of this species. Forster has left no description, drawing, or 
specimen of it; but when it is borne in mind that there are only four 
species of Solanum from the Society Islands, viz. S. Uporo, 8. 
. repan- 
dum, S. Forsteri, and S. oleraceum, and that we know Forster could not 
mean the first three, having previously deseribed them, there is little 
doubt that his S. astroites is identical with S. oleraceum. : 
6. S. amicorum, Benth. in Lond. Journ. of Bot. vol. ii. p. 227; De 
Cand. Prod. xiii. sect. 1, p. 269.—Tongan Islands (Barclay ! in Mus. 
Brit.; United States Expl. Exped. ! in Herb. Benth.). 
7. S. puberulum, Nutt. mss. in Herb. Brit. Mus.; fruticosum, ramis 
junioribus furfuraceo-tomentosis demum glabratis, foliis geminis, al- 
tero multo minore, ovato-oblongis acuminatis integerrimis vel sinuato- 
