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benecth, the primary veins 6 or 7 pairs, strongly upwardly curved 
toward or into those next above; peduncles 3-4 cm. long, pedicels 
slender, becoming in fruit 1.5 cm. long, the cymes dichotomous; 
calyx 7-8 mm. broad, hispid, divided half way to the base or far- 
ther, the lobes triangular-ovate, obtuse; corolla dull white (?), gla- 
brous, thick, divided nearly to the base, the lobes oval, obtusish, 
the tube appendaged with scales projecting between the anther 
bases; filaments 1 mm. long, the anthers 3 mm. long, 2 mm. 
' broad, somewhat incurved, oval, apex and base rounded, pores 
elongated, divergent at the base, continued downward into per- 
fect sutures; ovary oval, blackish, 1 mm. long, the style stout, 4 
mm. long, the apex recurved; stigma terminal, small; fruiting 
calyx 7-8 mm. broad, the ovate, obtuse lobes slightly longer 
than the hemispherical tube; fruit (immature) -very strongly 
reticulate-wrinkled. 
Yungas, 1890 (712) — Rusby's 794, though that is a smaller- 
leaved form. Also collected by Pearce at Unduavi, altitude 12,000 
IL, Dec. 1805. 
SOLANUM GILIOIDES sp. n. 
Annual, stems 6-18 cm. high, slender, bluish below, green 
above, pubescent; upper leaves sessile, the lower tapering very 
gradually into a margined petiole, including the latter 2-3 cm. 
long, 1.5-2 cm. broad, pinnatifid nearly to the midrib into 3 or + 
pairs of lobes which are inequilaterally and irregularly oblanceolate, 
obtuse, entire, the sinuses about as large and of approximately the 
same form, sparingly hairy and somewhat scurfy, passing grad- 
ually into the floral, which are oblong and sub-entire; racemes 
peduncled, hairy, the pedicels very slender, 5-7 cm. long; calyx 
hairy, the tube hemispherical.turbinate, a little shorter than the 
lance-ovate obtuse lobes which are 2 mm. long; corolla light blue; 
rotate, strongly reflexed, nearly twice as long as the calyx-lobes ; 
anthers yellow, 2.5 mm. long, straight, broadly oblong, the base 
appendaged with two short blunt auricles, the pores looking UP“ 
ward and inward ; ovary scarcely a mm. long and broad, truncate, 
the style cylindrical, stoutish, pubescent, the stigma terminal, very 
small. 
Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 (938) — Bridges 400 from Chili and 
very near S. pulchellum Phillippi. 
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SOLANUM PALLIDUM sp. n. 
Very pale grayish-green (herbaceous?); branches slender, 
flexuous, ascending, leafy, obscurely angled, scurfy-pubescent ; 
petioles 1 cm. long, striate, margined, the blades 5-8 cm. long. 
1.5-3 or 4 cm. broad, angularly ovate, more or less inequilateral, 
