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SOLANACEjE. I. SOLANUM. 



cose, densely clothed with yellowish tomentum all over ; branches 

 and calyxes prickly ; leaves solitary, oblong, bluntish, sinuately 

 repand : superior ones obsoletely sinuated ; racemes opposite 

 the leaves, usually 3-flowered. T? . G. Native of North Ame- 

 rica, but the exact locality is unknown. Stem armed with sim- 

 ple, scattered prickles. Racemes at the extremities of the 

 branches. Calycine segments subulate. Corolla large ; lobes 

 triangularly-lanceolate. 



Yellowish Nightshade. Shrub. 



2. LEPROPHORIS AFFINIA. The plants contained in this divi- 

 sion are very like those of the last. 



198 S. FURFURA'CEUM (R. Br. prod. p. 446.) stem shrubby ; 

 prickles acerose ; leaves narrow-lanceolate, quite entire, fur- 

 nished with a few prickles above, or unarmed, glabrous, smooth, 

 but clothed with cinereous tomentum beneath ; umbels lateral, 

 2-4-flowered, sessile ; calyx unarmed. Tj . S. Native of New 

 Holland, within the tropic. Dun. sol. 182. syn. p. 26. 



Furfuraceous Nightshade. Shrub. 



199 S. PARVIFOLIUM (R. Br. 1. c.) stem shrubby; prickles 

 acerose ; leaves narrow-lanceolate, quite entire, flat, glabrous 

 above, and furnished with a few prickles, but tomentose be- 

 neath, and unarmed, as well as the calyxes ; umbels lateral, 2-4- 

 flowered, sessile. Jj.. S. Native of New Holland, on the sea 

 shore, within the tropic. 



Small-leaved Nightshade. Shrub. 



200 S. ORBICULA'TUM (Dun. syn. p. 27. sol. ed. 2d. ined. t. 

 44. Poir. supj>]. 3. p. 762.) stem prickly ; prickles acerose, 

 red ; leaves nearly orbicular, clothed with leprous tomentum on 

 both surfaces, small ; flowers twin or solitary, on short pedun- 

 cles. Tj . G. Native of New Holland. Branches greyish- 

 yellow. Prickles long, tomentose at the base, one to each pe- 

 tiole. Leaves somewhat petiolate, unarmed, cream-coloured 

 below, and greenish-grey above. Peduncles and calyxes clothed 

 with rusty tomentum. 



Or&zcM/ar-leaved Nightshade. Shrub. 



201 S. STELLI'GERUM (R. Br. prod. p. 445.) stem shrubby ; 

 prickles few, acerose ; leaves entire, almost unarmed, lanceolate, 

 glabrous above, smooth, grey and tomentose beneath ; corymbs 

 lateral, subumbellate, simple, nearly sessile ; calyx unarmed. 

 Tj . G. Native of New South Wales, about Port Jackson. 

 Dun. sol. p. 201. syn. p. 27. Flowers pale blue. Fruit red. 

 Tomentum stellate. 



Var. a ; prickles of the stem much curved. Tj . G. Stem 

 and branches tomentose. Corolla pale purple. Stamens equal. 

 Berry globose, scarlet. S. stelligerum, Smith, exot. bot. 2. p. 

 57. t. 88. 



Var. ft ; prickles of the stem straight. Fj . S. Native of 

 New Holland, within the tropic, on the sea shore. Dun. sol. 

 ed. 2d. ined. t. 57. Tomentum on the under sides of the 

 leaves rusty. Corolla villous outside, pale blue. Berry small, 

 scarlet. 



Star-bearing Nightshade. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1823. Shrub 

 S feet. 



202 S. DISCOLOR (R. Br. prod. p. 445.) stem shrubby ; 

 prickles setaceous, straight ; leaves elliptic, subrepand, glabrous 

 above, and tomentose beneath, cinereous, and are, as well as the 

 calyxes, unarmed ; racemes lateral, many-flowered, undivided. 

 Tj . S. Native of New Holland, on the sea shore, within the 

 tropic. Dun. sol. 183. syn. p. 27. 



Two-coloured leaved-Nightshade. Shrub. 



203 S. DIANTHOPHORUM (R. Br. 1. c. but not of Lour.) nearly 

 unarmed ; stem furnished with a very few acerose prickles, and 



sometimes there are no prickles ; leaves oblong-ovate, entire, 

 tomentose, unarmed ; peduncles lateral, 2-flowered or twin ; 

 calyx 5-cleft, acuminated. Jj . S. Native of New Holland, 

 within the tropic, on the sea shore. Dun. sol. 183. syn. p. 27. 

 Branches clothed with rusty-yellow, stellate tomentum, as well 

 as the under sides of leaves. Leaves often twin, dark green 

 above. Calyx woolly, longer than the corolla ; anthers viola- 

 ceous. 



Pink-bearing Nightshade. Shrub. 



204 S. ELLI'PTICUM (R. Br. 1. c.) stem shrubby ; prickles 

 straight, tomentose at the base ; leaves oblong-oval, obtuse, 

 entire, tomentose on both surfaces, and are, as well as the 

 calyxes, prickly ; peduncles usually 3-flowered. Jj S. Native 

 of New Holland, within the tropic, on the sea shore. 



Elliptic-leaved Nightshade. Shrub. 



205 S. HORRIDUM (Dun. syn. p. 28. sol. ed. 2d. ined. t. 46.) 

 stem terete, pilose, prickly ; leaves on long petioles, ovate- 

 oblong, entire, villous on both surfaces, and prickly, as well 

 as the peduncles, which are 1-flowered. Tj . G. Native of New- 

 Holland. Poir. suppl. 3. p. 763. The whole plant is clothed 

 with stellate hairs. Leaves greyish-green above, and cream- 

 coloured beneath. Segments of corolla acute. Berry globose, 

 size of a large cherry. 



Horrid Nightshade. Shrub. 



206 S. ECHINA'TUM (R. Br. prod. p. 447.) stem erect ; 

 prickles setaceous, straight, acerose ; leaves ovate-oblong, entire, 

 unarmed, tomentose on both surfaces ; racemes opposite the 

 leaves, simple ; berry somewhat 4-celled, inclosed in the echi- 

 nated calyx. Tj . S. Native of New Holland, on the sea 

 shore, within the tropic. 



Echinated-ca\y\ed Nightshade. Shrub. 



207 S. RODSCHIEDII (Meyer, prim, esseq. p. 111.) stem shrub- 

 by ; leaves oblong, sinuated or entire, subcordate at the base, or 

 attenuated, tomentose beneath, and prickly ; racemes lateral ; 

 calyxes mutic. Tj . S. Native about the Essequibo, on the Ame- 

 rican continent. The whole plant, except the adult branches 

 and genitals, is beset with elegant stellate hairs. Branches, 

 petioles, and leaves prickly; prickles solitary, compressed, yel- 

 low : rameal ones curved, the rest straight. Calycine segments 

 short, bluntish. Corolla like that of S. mammbsum, violaceous, 

 clothed with tomentum outside, as well as the calyx. Berry 

 size of a cherry. 



Rodschiede's Nightshade. Shrub. 



3. PERSICA^RI^: (so named from the leaves of most of the 

 species resembling those of Persica, or the peach.) Dun. sol. 

 183. Leaves entire or repand, narrow, oblong-lanceolate. 

 Racemes simple, elongated, extra-foliaceous ; pedicels secund, 

 erect in the flowering state, but drooping in the fruit-bearin^ 

 state. Corollas 5-parted. 



208 S. RACEMOSUM (Jacq. amer. p. 50. t. 36. ed. pict. t. 50. 

 Lin. mant. 47.) stem unarmed, shrubby ; leaves lanceolate, re- 

 pand, undulated, acute ; corollas 5-parted. Jj . S. Native of 

 Martinico, on the declivities of mountains, Jacquin ; Surinam, 

 Lin. Leaves shining, petiolate. Racemes length of leaves. 

 Corolla white ; segments deep, oblong-lanceolate. Berry red, 

 size of a small pea. 



Racemose-flowered Nightshade. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1781. 

 Shrub 3 to 4 feet. 



209 S. I'GNEUM (Lin. spec. p. 270.) stem shrubby ; leaves 

 lanceolate, acuminated, revolute on both sides at the base ; co- 

 rollas 5-parted. >? . S. Native of the Caribbee Islands, and 

 Guiana. Jacq. hort. vind. t. 14. Aubl. guian. 1. p. 207. exclu- 



