( 420 ) 
outwardly curved at the middle, the pores very large, looking in- 
ward ae laterally; style short; fruit broadly ovoid and pointed 
when immature, aes globular and more than 1 cm. broad when 
satire, dark-red. (Vo. 
The same as Pearce’s on Pinta?), 11,000 to 12,000 ft. 
It is with reluctance that I class this plant as a Solanum. In 
habit, inflorescence-characters, calyx and fruit it appears to be a Bas- 
sovta, but its anthers are connivent and have very conspicuous pores. 
Solanum dianthum sp. nov. 
nger portions and leaves sparsely strigose ; stems herbaceous, 
reclining, slender, the branchlets ascending, mostly ee ir long; 
oe 3-8 mm. long, rather broad; blades 2-5 cm. 0.7-.15 
cm. broad, re ularly ovate to ore lanceolate, the me base 
abruptly produced into the petiole, acuminate and acute at the 
apex, entire, thin, bright-green, or yellowish-green underneath, 
where the slender venation is lightly prominent; cymes mostly 
pilose, lobed o fift hs of the way, the lobes erect, triangular, 
slightly pg pee broad, acute; corolla bluish-white, very thin, 
about ong; anthers yellow, 4 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, 
iene. blunt or truncate, the large pores looking inward, 
upward and a little laterally; style 1.5 mm. longer than the anthers; 
fruit globose, slightly depressed, nearly 1 cm. in diameter, ap- 
parently green and glabrous at maturity. 
‘¢ Climbing a few feet, the flowers bluish white; scarce in wet 
mould.” Unduavi, September, 1894. (/Vo. 2¢92.) Near S. doer- 
haavifolium and S. cyathicalyx. 
Solanum sarachioides sp. nov. 
Stellate pubescence sparse, except on the youngest portions; 
branches elongated, a acai herbaceous, sparsely leafy; petioles 
I-z cm. long; blades 6-9 cm. long, 4-5 cm. broad, ovate, short- 
pointed and acute, the broad rounded base abruptly produced into 
al fr e inter 
(those seen 4- or 5- ) flowered; pedicels eee weak, I-1.5 cm. 
long; calyx herbaceous, 4c m. long, lobed more than half-way, the 
lobes ovate, obtuse; corolla blue or Gole! nearly 1.5 cm. broad, 
the lobes reflexed; anthers yellow, 4 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, 
elliptical-oblong, the large pores looking inward and laterally; 
fruit not seen. (Vo. 2577.) 
Solanum carnosipes sp. nov. 
Branches stout, fleshy, and like the petioles, peduncles, pedicels 
and calyx, coarsely white granular-scabrous; petioles very thick, 
