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SOLANACEjE. I. SOLANUM. 



tersb. 10. p. 286. Hook, et Arn. p. 152.) plant clothed with 

 hoary -down; stem suffruticose ; leaves petiolate, ovate, acutish, 

 quite entire ; racemes umbellate, terminal, few-flowered ; calyx 

 urceolate, 5-cleft : with acute segments ; corolla 5-cleft, 3 times 

 longer than the calyx. T? . H. Native of California. Corolla 

 at first campanulate. Anthers biporose at the apex, with a ten- 

 dency to split. 



Umbelliferous Nightshade. Shrub. 



106 S. BAHAME'NSE (Mill. diet. no. 24.) shrubby ; leaves 

 lanceolate, sinuately toothed, glabrous ; umbels erect. Tj . F. 

 Native of the Bahama Islands, Catesby. Dill. elth. t. 363. 

 Bark brown. Leaves Z\ inches long, and 1 \ broad, acuminated, 

 pale green. Umbels small, lateral. Flowers large, white ; seg- 

 ments acuminated. 



Bahama Nightshade. Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 



2. Racemes, cymes, or corymbs, lateral, rameal, not axillary 

 nor opposite the leaves. 



107 S. VA'GUM (Heyne, ex Wall. cat. no. 2624. Nees, in 

 Lin. trans. 1 7. p. 48.) shrubby ; leaves ovate-oblong, repandly 

 sinuated, clothed with powdery tomentum beneath while young, 

 as well as the young branches ; cymes lateral, bifid ; calycine 

 segments long-acuminated ; berries small, globose. f; . S. 

 Native of the East Indies. S. corymbosum, Wight, herb. 

 This is a very distinct species, nearly allied to S. longifblium, 

 and S. Bombense, or pubigerum, Dun. ; but differs in the leaves 

 being repandly angular ; from the first it differs in the flowers 

 being smaller, and white ; and from the last in the calycine seg- 

 ments being long-acuminated. 



Common Nightshade. Shrub. 



108 S. LU'TEO-A'LBUM (Pers. ench. 1. p. 221. Dun. sol. 

 168. syn. p. 18.) stem shrubby ; leaves ovate, acute, downy on 

 both surfaces ; racemes cymose, lateral ; flowers secund. \i . 

 S. Native of Peru, in groves at Cuchero. S. pubescens, 

 Ruiz, et Pav. fl. per. 2. p. 36. t. 169. f. b. Corolla pale yel- 

 low. Berry globose, shining, orange-coloured, size of a cherry. 

 Habit of S. pubescens ; but differs in the flowers being cymosely 

 branched, less umbellate, and not opposite the leaves. Calycine 

 segments deflexed, acute. 



Yellotv-rvhite-Qowered Nightshade. Shrub. 



109 S. CHLORA'NTHUM (Spreng. syst. 1. p. 682.) leaves ob- 

 long, attenuated at the base, shining above, and quite glabrous, 

 but clothed with stellate tomentum beneath ; peduncles sub-um- 

 bellate ; corollas minute, green ; calyx 5-parted. J? . S. Na- 

 tive of Brazil. 



Green-flowered Nightshade. Shrub. 



110 S. LA'XUM (Spreng. syst. l.p. 682.) leaves ovate, acute, 

 glabrous, veiny ; branches cirrhiferous, scandent ; peduncles 

 racemose, loose ; calyx 5-parted. f; . ^. S. Native of Monte 

 Video, Sello. 



Loose Nightshade. Shrub climbing. 



111 S. DICHOTOMUM (Lour. coch. 1. p. 160.) stem sufFruti- 

 cose, pilose ; leaves cordate-lanceolate, quite entire, tomentose ; 

 peduncles dichotomous. ^ . G. Native of China. Dun. sol. 

 p. 167. syn. p. 18. Stem diffuse, branched. Berry small, glo- 

 bose, red. 



.For&ed-peduncled Nightshade. Shrub. 



112 S. FILIFORME (Ruiz, et Pav. fl. per. 2. p. 31. t. 159.) 

 stem suffruticose ; leaves ovate and cordate, obtuse, pubescent ; 

 peduncles filiform, bifid, subumbellate. fy . S. Native of 

 Peru, on hills at Lomas de Atiquipa. Dun. sol. 171. syn. p. 

 1 8. Habit of Sdlvia. Stem granular. Flowers drooping. 

 Corolla pale blue, thrice as large as the calyx. 



.Fz/i/bnn-peduncled Nightshade. Shrub. 



113 S. VI'RIDE (R. Br. prod. p. 445.) suffruticose; leaves 



ovate-oblong, acute, entire, flat, membranous, glabrous ; ra- 

 cemes corymbose, simple or bipartite ; calyx and corolla 5- 

 cleft. Pj . G. Native of New Holland, within the tropic, on 

 the sea shore. Perhaps the same as S. viride. Forst. pi. escul. 

 p. 42. Spreng. vnant. 1. p. 37. 

 Green Nightshade. Shrub. 



114 S. SERI'CEUM (Ruiz et Pav. fl. per. 2. p. 33. t. 161. f. 

 b. Dun. sol. p. 181. syn. p. 19.) stem shrubby; branches 

 slender ; leaves small, ovate-lanceolate, silky, quite entire; pe- 

 duncles 2-flowered, or few- flowered, cymose. Tj . S. Native 

 of Peru, at Huassen-huassi, in woods. Branches silky. Leaves 

 hoary. Corolla bluish-violet, silky outside. Berry red. Ruiz, 

 et Pav. say that this species agrees with S. eleagnifolium, and 

 probably, like it, prickly at the base. 



Silky Nightshade. Shrub 4| feet. 



115 S. LINKIA'NUM (Roem. etSchultes, syst. 4. p. 601.) stem 

 shrubby, much branched ; branches twiggy, thickish, strigose ; 

 leaves ovate-lanceolate, strigose on both surfaces, somewhat re- 

 pand ; peduncles 2-flowered. J? . S. Native of Brazil. S. 

 diffusum, Link, herb. Leaves 1| inch long, and g an inch 

 broad. Peduncles extra-foliaceous, nearly an inch long, de- 

 flexed. Calyx 5-parted, hairy, with lanceolate segments. Berry 

 glabrous, size of a pea. 



Link's Nightshade. Shrub. 



3. Racemes opposite the leaves, or almost so, tomentose, 

 donny, or clothed with leprous-like silvery, powdery down. 



116S. NU'TANS (Ruiz, et Pav. fl. per. 2. p. 34. t. 166. f. a.) 

 shrubby ; leaves oblong-ovate, acuminated, woolly beneath ; 

 racemes very short, opposite the leaves, cymose, recurved, 

 many-flowered ; flowers secund, drooping. ^ S. Native of 

 Peru, in waste places on the road to Pillao, where it is called 

 Cliuculate by the natives. Dun. sol. p. 167. syn. p. 19. Shrub 

 rusty ; branches granular. Leaves quite entire, granular above, 

 and nearly glabrous. Corollas small, white. Calyx woolly. 

 Berry yellow, globose. 



Drooping-fiowered Nightshade. Shrub. 



117 S. VENOSUM (Dun. syn. p. 19. sol. ed. 2d. t. 105. H. B. 

 et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 3. p. 32.) arborescent ; branches 

 floccosely pilose ; leaves lanceolate-oblong, acuminated, acute 

 at the base, quite entire, rather pilose above, and hairy beneath ; 

 corymbs opposite the leaves. Tj . S. Native of New Granada, 

 on the Andes of Quindiu. Leaves floccose on the midrib be- 

 neath', 5 or 5| inches long ; petioles floccose. Calyx small, with 

 roundish segments. Berry nearly globose, size of a sloe. 



Feiny-leaved Nightshade. Shrub or Tree. 



118 S. SWARTZIA'NUM (Room, et Schultes, syst. 4. p. 602.) 

 shrubby ; leaves petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, quite entire, coria- 

 ceous, glabrous, clothed with stellate hairs, beset with orbicular, 

 golden-yellow scales beneath ; racemes solitary, terminal. I? . 

 S. Native of Brazil, near Villa Ricca. S. aureum, Swartz, in 

 litt. Branches terete, beset with rusty scales. Racemes 5- 

 flowered ; pedicels deflexed, scaly. Calyx pentagonal, scaly 

 outside. Corolla beset with scales outside, dark purple inside, 

 with acuminated segments. Anthers purple. 



Swartz's Nightshade. Shrub. 



119 S. GNAPHALIOI DES (Pers. ench. 1. p. 223.) stem shrubby; 

 leaves lanceolate, repand, glabrous, shining ; umbels opposite 

 the leaves, tomentose ; berries drooping, fj . S. Native of 

 Peru, in shady places at Tarma ; and in hedges about Aca- 

 bamba, where it is called Nununya by the natives. Dun. sol. 

 p. 173. syn. p. 19. S. calygnaphalium, Ruiz, et Pav. fl. per. 2. 

 p. 31. The calyxes being clothed with tomentum, the plant has 

 much the appearance of a species of Gnaphalium. Corollas vio- 

 laceous. Berries dark red, saponaceous, size of a filbert. 



