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THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL; 



SOL 



young having a violet-coloured meal on the back and at the 

 edge; corolla pale blue, wrinkled, with a white border divi- 

 ded to the middle into five, six, or ten parts. Native of 

 Guinea. 



70. Solanum Tomentosmn ; Woolly Nightshade. Stem 

 prickly, shrubby; prickles acerose; leaves cordate, unarmed, 

 subrepand, when young having a purple meal on them. The 

 flowers are produced in small, loose, axillary bunches; they 

 are blue and large, appearing in June and July, and are suc- 

 ceeded by round berries as large as common cherries, of a 

 gold colour, but turning black when ripe. There is a variety 

 which differs only in having whitish flowers, and smaller fruit 

 of a scarlet colour. Native of the Cape. 



71. Solanum Polygamum; Polygamous Nightshade. Stem, 

 petioles, and leaves, prickly ; leaves ovate-oblong, mostly 

 entire, somewhat rugged above, tomentose beneath. Native 

 of the island of Santa Cruz. 



72. Solanum Bahamense; Bahama Nightshade. Stem 

 prickly, shrubby; leaves lanceolate, repand, obtuse, bent 

 back at the edge; racemes simple; flowers in long bunches 

 from the side of the stalk, of a fine violet colour; berries saf- 

 fron-coloured, the size of peas. Native of Jamaica, and of 

 Providence, one of the Bahama islands. 



73. Solanum Obscurum ; Obscure Nightshade. Leaves 

 elliptic-lanceolate, flat, villose beneath; racemes lateral; stem 

 and petioles prickly; branches purple, smooth at bottom; 

 corollas villose on the outside. Native of Cayenne. 



74. Solanum Giganteum; Tall Nightshade. Stem prickly, 

 shrubby ; prickles tomentose ; leaves lanceolate, acute, un- 

 armed, smooth above, snow-white and hoary beneath; racemes 

 dichotomous, cymed, terminating. A shrub of a tall and 

 striking habit, flowering in June and July. Branches thick 

 and round; prickles copious, short; leaves numerous about 

 the tops of the branches, three to five inches long, dark green 

 above, soft and white beneath; flowers numerous, small, pur- 

 ple, drooping. Native of the Cape. 



75. Solanum Flexuosum ; Waving-branched Nightshade. 

 Leaves geminate, elliptic-lanceolate, somewhat rugged, entire 

 underneath, with the petioles prickly; flowers four-stamined. 

 This is very nearly allied to the seventy-third species, which 

 has also gemmate leaves; but differs in having the branches 

 more rigid and flexuose, the leaves larger and more attenuated, 

 the prickles more frequent on the petioles, and four stamina; 

 corolla deeply four-cleft. Native of Cayenne. 



76. Solanum Lancesefolium ; Lance-leaved Nightshade. 

 Stem shrubby, scandent, prickly; leaves geminate, oblong, 

 attenuated to both ends, somewhat rugged, prickly beneath; 

 flowers five-stamined. Native of South America. 



77. Solanum Lanceolatum ; Lanceolate Nightshade. Stem 

 shrubby, tomentose, prickly; leaves narrow, lanceolate, quite 

 entire, tomentose beneath, unarmed; panicle terminating; 

 flowers blue, large. Native of Mexico. 



78. Solanum Eleagnifolium. Stem shrubby ; petioles and 

 leaves lanceolate, obtuse, tomentose beneath, subaculeate ; 

 racemes lateral. Native of South America. 



79. Solanum Polyacanthos ; Many-thorned Nightshade. 

 Very prickly: leaves linear-lanceolate, subrepand, subsessile, 

 obtuse; peduncles axillary, one-flowered. Flowers very small, 

 white, drooping ; prickles like needles ; berries globular, smooth, 

 shining, the size of a Coriander seed. Native of Dominica. 



80. Solanum Igneum ; Red-spined Nightshade. Stem 

 prickly, shrubby; leaves lanceolate, acuminate, rolled back 

 at the base on both sides; racemes simple; flowers in long 

 bunches from the side of the stalks, white, and succeeded by 

 red berries, almost as large as the small black cherry. It 

 very much resembles the seventy-second species ; but the 



flowers in that are violet, in this white. The leaves of this 

 also are acuminate, not bluntish ; the spines stouter, more 

 abundant, and of a fiery red colour. It flowers from March 

 to November. Native of South America. 



81. Solanum Milleri; Miller's Nightshade. Stem shrubby, 

 prickly ; leaves smooth, pinnatifid, with about five lobes, 

 quite entire, prickly ; peduncles one-flowered, subgeminate. 

 This is distinguished from the next species, by its pinnatifid 

 leaves, much smaller white flowers, and other marks. The 

 flowers are in long bunches from the side of the stalks ; and are 

 succeeded by red berries. Perennial. Native of the Cape. 



82. Solanum Trilobatum ; Three-lobed Nightshade. Stem 

 prickly, shrubby ; leaves wedge-form, angular, subtrilobate, 

 obtuse, smooth ; flowers large, violet-coloured ; berries small 

 like those of Elder. Probably a native of both Indies. 



83. Solanum Heterandrum. Stem aculeate, annual ; leaves 

 bipinnatifid, rough, tomentose and aculeate on both sides ; 

 segments somewhat obtuse ; racemes lateral; anthers patu- 

 lous, corniform ; berry subquadrilocular, included in the 

 echinated calix ; flowers large, yellow. This curious plant 

 was discovered by Mr. T. Nuttall, on the banks of the Missouri. 

 Pursh observes, that it is very nearly allied to Solanum Cor- 

 nutum ; and surmises that these two plants, together with 

 some others not yet fully examined, will probably be con- 

 stituted a distinct genus by some future botanist. 



84. Solanum Lycioides. Stem shrubby, thorny; leaves 

 elliptic ; flowers lateral, solitary. Native of Peru. 



85. Solanum Biflorum ; Two-flowered Nightshade. Stem 

 unarmed, shrubby ; leaves ovate, villose ; peduncles in pairs. 

 Native of China and Cochin-china. 



86. Solanum Album ; White Nightshade. Stem unarmed, 

 suffruticose ; branches prostrate; leaves oblong, angular; 

 peduncles many-flowered ; flowers lateral, white ; berries 

 middle-sized, globular, green, spotted with white, esculent. 

 The root is reckoned good in the toothache.- Native of 

 Amboyna and China. 



87. Solanum Dichotomum. Stem unarmed, suffruticose ; 

 leaves cordate-lanceolate ; peduncles dichotomous. -Native 

 of China; found near Canton. 



88. Solanum Procumbens. Stem prickly, suffruticose, 

 procumbent; flowers heaped, terminating; corolla wheel- 

 shaped, four-parted ; berry very small, round, deep-red, 

 shining, many-seeded. Native of Cochin-china. 



89. Solanum Angustifolium ; Narrow-leaved Nightshade. 

 Stem prickly, shrubby; leaves pinnate-laciniate, tomentose, 

 prickly on both sides ; peduncles axillary, two-flowered.- 

 Found at Vera Cruz, in New Spain. 



90. Solanum Quercifolium; Oak-leaved Nightshade. Stem 

 prickly, shrubby; leaves oblong, sinuate-pinnate, prickly; 

 umbels sessile. The flowers come out in small loose bunches 

 by the side of the branches, to which they sit close; they are 

 small and white; the berries are about the size of those of 

 Juniper, and are red when ripe. Found at Vera Cruz. 



91. Solanum Scandens; Twining Nightshade. Stem un- 

 armed, frutescent, flexuose; leaves ovate, tomentose beneath; 

 flowers solitary, axillary, they are large, of a fine blue colour, 

 not divided into segments, but having fine angles, each end- 

 ing in a point; berries round, red when ripe, size of peas. 

 Found at Vera Cruz. 



92. Solanum Houston!; Houstoun's Nightshade. Stem 

 prickly, shrubby; leaves ovate, sinuate-toothed, tomentose 

 beneath; prickfes every way straight; umbels sessile, termi* 

 nating. The flowers are produced in large umbels, at the 

 ends of the branches, they are large, of a fine blue colour, in 

 woody calices; berries round, the size of large peas when 

 ripe. Found at La Vera Cruz. 



