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better to let them remain in the stove, with the glasses open 

 in front, and daily in warm seasons to admit as much air as 

 possible at the top of the stove. 



43. Solanum Longiflorum ; Long-flowered Nightshade. 

 Unarmed : leaves elliptic, entire, attenuated, subtomentose 

 beneath ; racemes lateral ; corollas five-parted. Found at 

 Cayenne. 



44. Solanum Muricatum; Warted Nightshade. Stem 

 almost unarmed, suftruticose, rooting; shoots warted; leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate, entire, pubescent. Native of Peru. 



** Prickly. 



45. Solanum Insanum; Round-fruited Prickly Nightshade. 

 Stem prickly, herbaceous ; leaves ovate, tomentose; pedun- 

 cles pendulous, incrassated; calices prickly; fruit oblong, 

 smooth, furrowed. This is the species which is cultivated 

 for eating in the East Indies. One much-esteemed variety 

 in some provinces is called Mandia. Swartz also observes, 

 it has been introduced for culinary purposes in the West 

 Indies. See the forty-first and forty-second species. 



46. Solanum Torvum. Stem prickly, shrubby; prickles 

 crooked; leaves subcordate, ovate, sinuate, tomentose; rachis 

 prickly; calices unarmed. Native of Jamaica, Hispaniola, 

 and the Bermudas, in hedges. 



47. Solanum Volubile ; Twining Nightshade. Stem 

 prickly, shrubby, scandent ; leaves angular ; petiole, rachis, 

 and calix prickly; corolla larger, blue; segments long, tomen- 

 tose beneath. Found in the woods of Hispaniola and of the 

 West Indies. 



48. Solanum Ferox ; Malabar Nightshade. Stem prickly, 

 herbaceous; leaves cordate, angular, tomentose, prickly; 

 berries rough-haired, covered with the calix. Native of 

 Malabar. 



49. Solatium Campechiense; Yellow-spined Nightshade. 

 Stem shrubby, prickly, rough-haired ; leaves cordate-oblong, 

 five-lobed, toothed; calices very prickly; flowers very large, 

 of a fine blue colour; berries round, as large as in com- 

 mon cherries, marbled with white and green. It flowers in 

 July and August. Annual; sent by Houstoun from Cam- 

 peachy. 



50. Solanum Fuscatum; Purple-spined Nightshade. Stem 

 herbaceous, prickly; leaves cordate, ovate, sinuate, lobed, 

 witli the lobes somewhat angular, the upper prickles colour- 

 ed ; flowers violet-coloured. Native of America. 



51. Solanum Mammosum; Bachelor's Pear. Stem her- 

 baceous; leaves cordate, angular-lobed, villose and prickly 

 on both sides; fruit pointed. An annual stove plant: her- 

 bage very villose; the footstalks and ribs of the leaves armed 

 with straight yellow thorns. The flowers are produced in 

 bunches from the side of the stalks ; they are of a pale blue 

 colour, and are succeeded by yellow fruit, of the shape and 

 size of a Catharine Pear inverted. -It doth not however ap- 

 pear, why tins fruit, which grows commonly all over the West 

 Indies, has there universally obtained the name of Bachelor's 

 Pear, except it be, as we shrewdly suspect, not edible, and 

 thence so named, to insinuate that it is good for nothing. 

 Merian says, it is very poisonous to men and beasts. 



52. Solanum Hirtum; Rough-haired Nightshade. Shrub- 

 by, prickly: leaves cordate, angular, tomentose, prickly; 

 peduncles lateral, aggregate, with the calices very hirsute. 

 Native of the island of Trinidad. 



53. Solanum Paniculatum ; Panided Nightshade. Stem 

 and petioles prickly; leaves sinuate-angular, smooth above; 

 flowers panioled. Native of Brazil. 



54. Solanum Aculeatissimum; Prickly Nightshade. Stem 

 shrubby, very prickly; leaves cordate, five-lobed and sinuate, 

 somewhat hairy; calices prickly. Native of America. 



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55. Solanum Virginianum ; Virginian Nightshade. Stem 

 erect, prickly; leaves pinnatifid, prickly all over ; segments 

 sinuate, obtuse, ciliate at the edge; calices prickly. Annual. 

 Flowers large and blue ; berries the size of black cherries, 

 variegated with green and white. Native of America. 



56. Solanum Jacquini ; Jacquiris Nightshade. Stem 

 decumbent, diffused, prickly; leaves pinnatifid, prickly all 

 over; segments sinuate, obtuse, naked at the edge; calices 

 prickly; fruit globose, the size of a gooseberry, variegated 

 with light green. It varies with the segments of the leaves 

 scarcely sinuate. Annual. Native of the East Indies. 



57. Solanum Xanthocarpum ; Yellow-fruited Nightshade. 

 Stem decumbent, diffused, prickly; leaves pinnatifid, prickly, 

 stellate, pubescent; segments sinuate, acute, naked at the 

 edge; calices prickly. Annual. Native of the Cape. 



58. Solanum Coagulans. Stem prickly, shrubby ; leaves 

 oblong, repand-sinuate, tomentose, prickly ; lobes rounded, 

 entire. Native of Arabia Felix. 



59. Solanum Jamaicense ; Jamaica Nightshade. Stem 

 prickly, shrubby; leaves wedged, wider in the middle, obtuse- 

 angled, tomentose on both sides ; rachises and calices prickly ; 

 prickles bent back; berry roundish, first green, veined with 

 black, but wholly black when ripe, smooth, having a dot at 

 the top, size of a red currant. -Native of Jamaica and His- 

 paniola, in waste places. 



60. Solanum Indium ; Indian Nightshade. Stem prickly, 

 shrubby; leaves wedge-shaped, angular, subvillose, quite 

 entire; prickles straight; berries round, of a gold colour, as 

 large as cherries. -Native of both Indies, and of Cochin-china. 



61. Solanum Carolinense; Carolina Nightshade. Stem 

 prickly, annual ; leaves hastate, angular ; prickles straight ; 

 racemes loose. Native of Carolina. 



62. Solanum Sinuatum ; Sinuate-leaved Nightshade. Stem 

 shrubby, round, prickly; leaves bipinnatifid, sinuate, villose, 

 prickly on both sides; calices villose, prickly; corolla yellow; 

 berry the size of a cherry. Native place not stated. 



63. Solanum Sodomeum; Black-spined Nightshade. Stem 

 prickly, shrubby, round; leaves pinnatifid sinuate, sparseclly 

 prickly, naked ; calices prickly. The flowers come out in 

 small bunches on the side of the branches ; they are blue, 

 appear in June and July, and are succeeded by round yellow 

 berries, as large as walnuts. Native of Africa and the south 

 of Europe. 



64. Solanum Capense; Cape Nightshade. Stem prickly, 

 shrubby, round; leaves sinuate, pinnated, prickly, naked; 

 segments alternate, entire, obtuse. Native of the Cape. 



65. Solanum Marginatnm ; White Nightshade. Prickly : 

 leaves cordate, repand, with a white edge; flowers racemed, 

 bell-shaped, plaited, tomentose, white like those of the Com- 

 mon Potato; fruit ovate, of a dirty yellow. It flowers most 

 part of the summer. Native of Abyssinia, where it was 

 found by the celebrated traveller Bruce. 



66. Solanum Stramonifolium ; Broad-leaved Nightshade. 

 Stem prickly, shrubby ; leaves cordate, angular lobed. entire, 

 almost unarmed, somewhat tomentose beneath. It flowers 

 from June to September. Native of both Indies. 



67. Solanum Vespertilio; Canary Nightshade. Stem 

 prickly, shrubby; lea.ves cordate, entire ; corollas somewhat 

 irregular; lower anthera more produced. It flowers here in 

 March and April. Native of the Canary Islands. 



68. Solanum Sanctum ; Palestine Nightshade. Stem 

 prickly, shrubby ; prickles tomentose ; leaves obliquely 

 ovate, repand ; corolla like that of Borage, purplish blue. 

 Native of Palestine; whence the trivial name Sanctum. 



69. Solanum Hybridum; Mule Nightshade. Stem prickly, 

 shrubby ; leaves ovate, almost unarmed, acute, repand, when 



