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Solanum stipuloideum sp. no 
Sparsely and very shortly ae on the lower leaf-surfaces and 
calyx; a low diffuse or reclining herb; branches very slender, flex- 
ong, 1-3 
cm. broad, ovate, truncate to slightly cordate at the base, short- 
acuminate and obtuse at the apex, entire or obscurely sinuate-den- 
tate, very thin and flaccid, dark-green above, pale underneath, the 
weak venation coarse aa irregular; pedicels mostly solitary, 1-3 
cm. long, filiform; calyx 5 mm. long, the turbinate tube very short, 
the herbaceous lobes lance-ovate, obtuse; corolla white, nearly 1.5 
cm. 1086: not deeply lobed, the lobes acutish; anthers bright-yellow, 
5 mm. long, broadly oblon ng, ou the small pores looking 
inward and slightly laterally style 2-3 mm. longer than stamens, 
the stigma broad. 2509. 
Species near S. eae but not having its stem or calyx. 
Solanum poecilochromifolium sp. nov. 
Finely gray-puberulent throughout, except the fruit, the stems 
shrubby; branchlets numerous, erect, rather slender, densely leafy ; 
aun 3-4 mm. long, stout, margined ; blades 1.5-3 cm. long, 
0.7-1.5 cm. broad, ovate, the rounded base abruptly narrowed into 
but weak ised Farene both sides; cymes terminal, stoutl 
right-blue ; eee slender, r cm. or less long; calyx-tube tur- 
binate, about 2 mm. long, the lobes herbaceous, weak, nearly as 
long, ovate, obtuse; corolla 1.5 cm. broad, thin, reflexed, shallowly 
lobed; anthers bright-yellow, 4 mm. long, linear or slightly broad- 
the large, elongated pores looking inward; fruit 
(immature) sub- globular, smooth, 7mm. indiameter. (Vo. 2515.) 
Solanum ne bassoviicarpum sp. nov 
Unarmed (?), scurfy throughout, cn the corolla and the ma- 
ture fa ie the branchlets rather short, stout, flexuous; peti- 
oles 1~-1.5 cm. long, stoutish, narrowly channeled above, like the 
midrib; blades 5-10 cm. long, 2-6 cm. broad, ovate to oval, mostly 
rounded at the base, short-acuminate and acute at the apex, entire 
or obscurely sinuate at the margin, thick and rigid, yellowish-green, 
margin; flowers fascicled, de about 5—7-flowered; pedicels 
1-2 cm. long, thickened aad lightly angled above; calyx 5 mm. 
broad, lobed nearly to the base, the lobes broadly ovate, obtuse or 
obtusish, recurved, thick; corolla nearly 1.5 cm. broad sihea fully 
expanded, lobed nearly to th Sine, thick, apparently violet, the 
lobes oval, obtuse; stamens ee m. long, oval, truncate, strongly 
