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coarsely veined,tne primary about 6 pairs; panicle puberulent, 
terminal, 2-3 dm. long, 1-2 dm. broad, pyramidal, lax, compound, 
the flowers racemose, the pedicels slender, 5-8 or 10 mm. long; 
buds broadly ovoid when young, at maturity oblong-elliptical, 15 
mm. long, 5-7 mm. broad; calyx (in flower) 5 mm. broad, scarcely 
m. long, saucer-shaped, truncate with 5 obscure teeth, brown, 
puberulent like the pedicels; corolla light bluish-brown or gray- 
brown, velvety without, thick, divided nearly to the base into 
lance-linear obtuse lobes; disk inconspicuous; stamens erect, the 
flaments equal in the bud, but in flowering one elongating to 6 
mm. (the others I mm.), anthers 7 mm. long, densely granular, 
papillose, brown with whitish tips, oblong, straight, the pores 
looking upward and inward, and continued downward into perfect 
sutures; ovary about equalling the calyx, style nearly 1.5 cm. 
long, filiform, the stigma small, capitate. ; 
Yungas, 1890 (522). Betwéen Tipuani and Guanai, Dec. 1892 
| (1662) — Spruce, Tarapoto, No. 4327. 
This most peculiar species of Solanum inclines, by its habit, 
appearance of inflorescence and downwardly broadened filaments 
toward Cyphomandra. In its one elongated filament it is the 
counterpart of the section Nycterium, with one elongated anther. 
This character, the paniculate inflorescense and densely papillose 
or warty anther furnish the characters of a new section of the genus 
Solanum, which I call ANDROPEDAS. 
CYPHOMANDRA DICHOTOMA sp. n. | 
Habit unknown, but apparently climbing or reclining, the 
branches whitish, with small scattered warts and conspicuous 
horseshoe-shaped leaf scars, the branchlets similar, erect, flexuous, 
slender, slightly angled, minutely scurfy; petioles slender, but 
rather broadly margined, 4-6 cm. long, blades 12-20 cm. long, 
9 cm. broad, ovate to oval, base abruptly acuminate, apex ob- 
tuse, entire, thin, minutely stellate-scurfy beneath, nearly glabrous 
above, principal veins about 12 pairs, nearly straight, parallel, 
slender, like the midrib impressed above ; racemes strictly dichoto- 
mous, slender, very loosely flowered, drooping and curling, knotty- 
jointed at the articulation of the pedicels, which are very slender, 
thickened upward, 1.5 to 3 cm. long; calyx in flower hemisherical- 
campanulate, 3 mm. long, 5 mm. broad, very shallowly 5-lobed, 
thelobes very broad with rounded margin, the sinuses smal and 
acute; corolla puberulent without, rotate-campanulate, 1.5-2 cm. 
broad, the lobes triangular, acute, 4 mm. long and somewhat 
broader; anthers 3-5 mm. long, very broad, straight, longitudi- 
nally dehiscent, without pores, the connective distinctly thickened, 
filaments manifest; ovary obtusely conical, slightly longer than 
broad, 3 mm. long, the style 5 mm. long exclusive of the oblong 
