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their petioles, simple or once Lo the flowers simply racemed, 
their pedicels stout, about 5 m m. long ; calyx-teeth much longer 
than the tube, triangular- lanceolate, 3 mm. long; corolla densely 
tomentose without, the inner surface purple, appearing tuberculate 
in the dried condition, thickish, divided nearly to the base, the 
lobes oe I-nerved and veiny, lanceolate, tapering, acute, 12 
mm. long, 4 mm. "E anthers erect, linear-lanceolate, 8 mm. 
long, 3 m oad, tapering, coriaceous and rugose, the lower 
half ‘slightly arching outward, the upper half straight, the pores 
looking outward and upward; ovary very small, densely long-hir- 
sute, the style cylindrical, thickened upward, 4 mm. long; stigma 
terminal: fruit not seen 
Yungas, 1890 (373). Apparently the same as Gardner's 1787 
from Ceara. Near Pearce's Coroico specimen. Near S. verbasci- 
folium, but stem and indumentum differ. Distributed as “S. 
pycnanthemum.” 
SOLANUM VALIDUM sp. n. 
Strongly woody, nd: branches erect, flexyose, stout, 
very leafy; leaves sub-sessile by a cuneate base, 5-8 cm. long, 1.5-2 
cm. broad, lanceolate, lint finely strigose above, finely stellate- 
scurfy beneath, the margin irregularly sinuate, midrib coarse, promi- 
nent beneath, principal veins about 7 pairs, each connected near 
the margin with a descending branch from that next above; cymes 
sessile, 3-5 rg the rive unequal, stout, thickened up- 
ward, in flower 5-9 mm., in fruit 1.5 cm. long; calyx d os | 
tube Sé Cé the lobes Minen: obtusish, foliaceous, 8-9 m 
long, 1.5 mm. broad, 4 times the length of the tube; corolla dod 
e the calyx, yellowish- -white, divided nearly to the base, 
oval, acutish, 4-5 mm. broad; anthers yellow, 4 mm. long, oblong, 
straight, the pores looking upward and a little inward; style fili- 
form, one-half longer than the anthers, the stigma terminal, small; 
fruit spherical, 12 mm. in diameter, red, glabrous, shining. 
Vic. Cochabamba; 1891 (972 flower, and 1096 fruit). Very . 
near S. capsicastrum, but has larger flowers and different anthers. 
SOLANUM STYRACIOIDES Sp. n. 
more?) cm. long, blades 10-15 cm. lon sien and 6-10 cm. broad, 
ovate, the base rounded or abruptly slightly and often unequally 
produced, in Spruce's specimen some of the lower cordate, the 
apex blunt, thin and membranaceous, dark-green, drying brownish, 
