SOLA’NUM ANGUSTIFO'LIUM. 
NARROW-LEAVED SOLANUM. 
EXOGENA, DICOTYLEDONES. 
RA Natural division 
{ to which 
this plant belongs. 
NATURAL ORDER, SOLANACEZ. 
COROLETFIORR, Artificial nt PENTANDRIA, 
to which MONOGYNIA, 
when bocce this Plant belongs. OF LINNEUS. 
No. 190. : 
GENUS. Soranum. Linnavs. Catyx quinque vel decemfidus. Corotta 
rotata vel rarius campanulata, tubo brevi, limbo plicato quinque- vel decemfido, 
rarius q i- vel sexfido. Stamina quinque, rarius quatuor vel sex, coroll 
fauci inserta, exserta; filamenta brevissima; ‘anthers zequales vel inzquales, 
conniventes, apice poris geminis dehiscentes. Ovariu m bi-rarius tri- quadrilo- 
culare, placentis dissepimento adnatis multio Sryxvus simplex. Srie- 
ma obtusum. Bacca bi-rarius tri-quadrilocularis. Semmna plurima subreni- 
Suaies HERss, suffrutic ces, fratices ee: arbores, ine vines vel Moments, foliis 
SPECIES. SOLANUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM. Set Inzeue, caule ey 
* coso, ramis subherbaceis, foliis angusto-lanceolatis integerrimis obtusiusculis 
glaberrimis, pedunculis terminalibus lateralibusque, floribus corymbosis, caly- 
cibus breviter quinquefidis, staminibus equalibus. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, SOLANUM. CaLyx five or ten cleft: 
Coro ta rotate or rarely bell-shaped, the tube short, the limb folded 
with five or ten, rarely four or six, divisions. Stamens five, rarely 
four or six, inserted in the throat of the corolla, and projecting from 
it, the filaments very short, the: anthers equal or sometimes unequal, 
connivent, opening at the apex by two pores. Ovary two-celled, 
rarely three or four-celled, the placente adhering to the dissepiment, 
and bearing many ovules. Stytz simple. Stiema blunt. Berry 
two-celled, rarely three or four-celled. SexEps several, nearly reni- 
form. 
DESCRIPTION OF S , SOLANUM STEM 
shrubby at the base, erect, with herbaceous cylindrical or slightly an- 
gular branches, perfectly smooth, as well as the whole of the plant, and 
without any prickles, growing to the height of three or four feet. 
LEAVES alternate, borne on short stalks, narrow, lanceolate, blunt, or 
scarcely pointed, entire, a little narrowed or wedge-shaped at the base, 
two to four inches long, rather thick, smooth, and without prickles. 
Pepunc es terminal, or occasionally lateral, bearing a cyme, having 
