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fruiting calyx spreading, 1 cm. broad, the lobes d gokan fruit 
green, shining, I cm. in diameter, the epicarp ve 
Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 (1159). Near S. pn nec: Cav. 
SOLANUM SYMMETRICUM sp. n. 
Glabrous; branchlets its rather slender, very flexuous, 
blackish, the internodes 2~2.5 cm. long; petioles 1 cm. long 
blades about 1 dm.long and 5 cm. broad, oval, the base shes 
acuminate, apex obtuse; entire, thin but rigid, the midrib and 
about 7 pairs of primaries prominent beneath, the reticulation fine, 
indistinct; peduncles mostly solitary at the nodes, 1 cm. long, 
slender, divergent, the rhachis spiral or cochleate, so as to make 
the many-flowered cyme sub-spherical; cyme 2.5—3 cm. in diam- 
eter, the pedicels slender, about 7 mm. long; calyx open-campan- 
ulate, 2.5-3 mm. long and broad, divided nearly midway, the lobes 
triangular and acutish, the sinuses nearly of the same form; co- 
rolla white (with violet center ?), rotate, strongly reflexed, 5 or 6 
mm. long, deeply lobed, ig lobes tapering-ovate; anthers 3 mm. 
long, straight, oblong and somewhat narrowed toward the base, 
the pores facing Bran, upward and lateraily; style a little ex- 
ceeding the stamens, stout, clavate, the stigma large; fruit not 
seen. 
Mapiri, July-Aug., 1892 (1478). 
SOLANUM VELUTISSIMUM Sp. n. 
Shrubby, unarmed, the branchlets short, dien "Nast dna terete, 
blackish, the leaves crowded at their summits, the younger parts, 
like the inflorescence, petioles and lower ose densely 
Bp eg iria pet n .5-1 cm. long, margined; blades 
oad, oval; acute, thick, above of 
duncles 3- ng, stout, erect, the cyme 6—8 cm road; 
calyx broadly campanulate to saucer-shaped, about 7 mm. broad; 
divided nearly midway, the lobes triangular-ovate, acu m 
a te 
broad, sinuses acute; corolla (light-blue?) stellate-scurfy i 
divided nearly to the base, the lobes nearly 1 cm. long, ovate ; 
anthers 3 mm. long, oblong, lightly curved, the pores looking in- 
ward and a little upward; style stout, tapering, stellate-scurfy ; 
immature fruit lightly stellate- -scurfy. 
c. Sorata, 8,000 ft., Nov. 1892 (1627). Near Mandon’s 424, 
but Me calyx-teeth are different. 
Solanum sp. almost certainly undescribed, but must await flowers. 
Near S. Swartziana, but the calyx and fruit are different. Vic. 
Sorata, 1892 (1630). Nearly the same as Rusby’s 777. 
