SOLA’NUM VESTITUM. 
CLOTHED SOLANUM. 
EXOGENA, OR DICOTYLEDONES. 
iS Natural division 
to which 
this plant belongs. 
PR ORDER, SOLANACEA. 
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No. 192. 
GENUS, Sotanum. Lrnwevs. Catryx quinque- vel decemfidus. Cororza 
rotata vel rarius campanulata, tubo brevi, limbo plicato quinque- vel decemfido, 
rarius quadri- vel sexfido, Sramina quinque, rarius quatuor vel sex, corolla 
fauci inserta, exserta; filamenta nba anther conniventes apice poris 
geminis dehiscentes, Oy vaRium bi-rarius tri- vel quadriloculare, ccatiggg a 
sepimentis adnatis multi-ovulatis. Sryzus oo Stiema o 
ca bi- rarius tri- vel quadrilocularis. Semrna reniformia. ayiicee ide 
ricus albumen carnosum includens. 
SPECIES. Soranum vestrrom. Caule fruticoso, foliis amplis ovatis 
angulato-lobatis utrinque ramisque aculeis sparsis rectis armatis et pilis apice 
psy 2 hirsutissimis; pedunculis lateralibus breviter racemosis, calycis 
campanulati hirsutissimi laciniis brevibus ovatis apice subcoloratis, corollis 
amplis saulek 6-7 -fidis extus villosis 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, SoLANUM. CaLyx five or ten cleft. 
Corotta rotate, or rarely bell-shaped, the tube short, the limb pli- 
cate, five or ten cleft, rarely four or six cleft. Stamens five, rarely 
four or six, inserted in the throat of the corolla, and projecting be- 
yond it; the filaments very short, the anthers connivent, opening at 
the top by means of two pores. Ovary two-celled, rarely three or 
four celled; the placente adhering to the dissepiment, and bearing 
many ovules. Sryzte simple. Sriema blunt. Berry two-celled, 
rarely three or four celled. SerEps reniform. Emsryo placed in the 
circumference, and surrounding a fleshy albumen. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, SOLANUM VESTITUM. A tall 
Survs, forming almost a small tree. Brancues thick, armed with 
scattered prickles, which are straight, or nearly so, and scarcely re- 
flexed, and thickly covered with stiff brown hairs, branching at the 
top in the form of stars. Leaves stalked, single, or two together, 
from five to ten inches long, broadly ovate, grossly and irregularly 
marked on each edge with three or four broad, acute lobes, covered 
on both sides with hairs like those of the branches, and bearing a few 
