(118) 
pce eet sp. nov. 
rous, a the lower leaf surfaces and young parts, 
which bear a a straight, short, slightly laterally compressed, 
y pines; branchlets deep-purple; petioles 8-4! ong, 
rather stout, blades bright green, 7-15 g, 4-12 cm. wide, 
ate, obt to truncate at the b inate at the s 
aa upeeest the ee obtuse; cymes peduncled, bifid, the 
scorpioid, rather many-flowered; bud lanceolate; calyx 
ee nearly to the cae the lobes 5 mm. long in flower, 10 mm. 
in fruit, tapering gradually from the base to the acute summit; 
corolla white, 12 mm. long; filaments slender, 2 mm. long, the 
curved, the pores looking almost directly upward; fruit globose, 
smooth, 8 mm. broad. 
“3 ft. high; San Buena Ventura, 1400 it., Nov. 12, 1901” 
(No. 648). 
The same as Spruce’s No. 4615. 
Solanum Williamsii (Sect. Andropedas) sp. nov 
ensely ferruginous stellate-tomentose doughout the hollow 
i 
ranches stout ng several yards in length; petioles short, 
very stout; blades 10-2 long, nearly as broad, rhomboidally 
val or ovate, entire, very thick, very abruptly contracted at both 
a 
»~P 
us, the peduncle about 2 cm. long, stout like the flexuous, nodose 
rachis; pedicels very stout, 10 mm. long; calyx‘30 mm. broa 
divided two-thirds of the way, the lobes ovate, obtusish; corolla 
the connective somewhat thickened toward the top, the longi- 
tudinal sutures continuous with the pores; style conied. exceeding 
the anther 
This species is near to S. styracitoides Rusby, though con- 
spicuously different in its indumentum, and, as in the case of that 
species, it is difficult to exclude it from Cyphomandra. There is a 
tendency toward elongation of the tip of the connective into a 
mucronation 
“Vine-like stems sometimes 3 or 4 yards long; Tumupasa, 
1800 ft., Dec. 10, 1g01”’ (No. 424). 
