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SOLANUM AUREIFOLIUM sp. n. 
Glabrous, except the puberulent flowers, shrubby, much and 
widely annos the branches light brown, striate, the internodes 
ong; petioles 1-2 cm. long, broad but weak; blades 
751.5 a long, 3-5 cm. broad, lance- -oblong to oblong-ovate, the 
base blunt, the apex abruptly contracted into a tapering and acute 
point, thin, drying yello wish-green, the primaries pairs, slender, 
irregular and crooked, ts Sam very fine obscure; pe- 
duncles 2-3 cm. long, NE the cyme ARAK, very loose, 
twisted, the pedicels 1.5 cm. long, faintly striate, at the apex di- 
vided nearly to the base, the lobes oblong-ovate, obtuse, white, 
translucent and conspic uously reticulate-veined ; anthers 7 mm. 
long, lanceolate, slightly whitish-thickened at the summit, where 
stigma very small; fruit a little more than 1 cm. broad, red when 
immature, deep red-purple at maturity. 
* Near snow-line, Mt. Tunari " (?), 1891 (1119). 
SOLANUM CLAVATUM sp. n. 
Glabrous; a much-branched shrub, the branchlets crowded, ir- 
` regular, short and stout, very leafy, the internodes .5-1 cm. long; 
leaves 6-15 cm. long, 1—4 cm. broad, lance-oblong, the base taper- 
ing into a winged petiole about I cm. long, the apex obtusish ; the 
margin entire but irregular, thick and rigid, pale beneath, where the 
flowered, the pedicels about 2 cm. long, clavate and quad- 
rangular at the summit; calyx-tube proper cupulate, 3 mm. 
long, 5 mm. broad, the teeth mostly a little longer, narrowly tri- 
angular-acuminate, the sinuses broad and rounded ; corolla white, 
finely spotted inside, thickish, 1.5 cm. broad ; anthers 5 mm. long, 
nearly 2 mm. broad, lance ovate, obtuse, straight, the pores 
directed about equally upward, inward and laterally ; style exceed- 
ing the anthers by one-half their length; fruit dull, about I cm. in 
diameter. 
Near snow-line, Mt. Tunari, 1891 (1118. It appears that 
some specimens of the next may have been accidentally mixed 
with this number in distributing). The same species collected on 
Mt. Chimborazo. The specimens in Herb. Kew bear the number 
33, but the name of the collector does not appear. 
