( 438 ) 
Solanum (/zermes) vulpinum sp. nov. 
Very densely and thickly stellate-tomentose, the younger portions 
deep rusty-red, the older yellow-gray; shrubby, the very stout 
(8 .t 
short-pointed and acute at the summit, entire, very thick, paler un- 
derneath, the coarse, weak venation little projecting on either side; 
cymes short-peduncled, dichotomous, 1 dm. or more broad, open 
but the branchlets densely flowered; pedicels 5-7 mm. long, very 
stout; calyx about 4 mm. broad, 2-3 mm. long, crateriform, sub- 
truncate with sinuately 5-lobed margin; corolla (purple or violet) 
pores looking upward and slightly inward ; fruit not seen. (/Vo.2256.) 
The same as Mandon 420. 
Solanum rosulatum sp. nov. 
bby; gray with rather dense stellate indumentum, the upper 
branching, densely leafy at the ends; petioles 0.5—1 cm. long, broad, 
margined; blades 3-5 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. broad, lance-ovate, 
rounded at the base, regularly acuminate and acute, thickish but 
flaccid, the venation weak and obscure; peduncles 1.5-2 cm. long, 
stoutish ; cymes dichotomous, 5-6 cm. broad, about 20-flowered ; 
the stigma little oe elongated ; fruit (dark-red‘), about 1 cm. 
in diameter. (JVo. 2578.) 
Solanum symmetrifolium sp. no 
Grayish with a fine stellate babe ates: stems herbaceous, the 
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ad, ovate, the base abruptly contracted into the short taper- 
ing petiole, obtuse at the apex, entire, thin and flaccid, the venation 
coarse and weak; peduncles about 1 cm. long, forking into two 
sub-divaricate and nee se branches ; i pedicels loosely arranged, 
mostly 5-7 mm. long, slender; calyx herbaceous, 3-4 mm. long 
(slightly sac in ee about half way, the lobes ovate, 
obtuse; cor (white or violet) 5 mm. long, deeply lobed; 
anthers ea nearly 5 mm. long, lance-oblong, the large, 
elongated pores looking inward; style very slender, little exceeding 
the stamens, the stigma small, elongated ; fruit ea greenish 
or light-red, globular, about 5 mm. in diameter. (Vo. 2870.) 
The same as AMfandon 396. Species near S. fill orme. 
