TT. wem 
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stigma which is 1 mm. long; fruit globose, soft, 7 mm. in diameter 
as pressed. 
Yungas, 1890 (519). A very distinct species, distributed as 
*Solanum." 
Physalis Peruviana L. Sp. Pl. Ed. 2, 1670. Yungas, 1890 (301) = 
Rusby's 824. 
BassoviA STENOLOBA (V. Heurck & Muell.) Britton. 
Solanum stenolobum V. Heurck & Muell. Obs. Bot. 69. 
Branches slender and weak, very flexuous, apparently reclin- 
ing, angled, glabrous cxcept near the ends, the leaves divergent or 
the, lower reflexed, the principal 5-10 cm. long, 2-3 cm. broad, 
inequilateral, oblong-lanceolate, tapering at both ends, sessile, 
thin and membranaceous, deep green, sparsely and coarsely stri- 
gose below, glabrous above, the principal veins 8 or 9 on eac 
side; reduced leaves broadly ovate, acute, inequilateral, I-2 cm. 
long; pedicels solitary in the axils, filiform, reflexed, 2-3 cm. long, 
puberulent, dilated and somewhat 5-angled toward the calyx; 
flower-material insufficient for dissection; fruiting calyx pubes- 
cent, 7 mm. broad, cup-shaped, the 10 linear teeth nearly as long 
as the tube, borne upon a truncate margin, erect; fruit globose- 
ovoid, glabrous, apparently red. 
.. Songo, Nov. 1890 (854), — Spruce's 4210, fide Britton. Dis- 
tributed as * Brachistus." 
Capsicum frutescens L. Sp. Pl. 189. (cult. form) Vic. La Paz, 
10,000 ft., 1890 (200). 
ACNISTUS OBLONGIFOLIUS sp. n. : 
Branches slender, flexuous, knotty at the nodes, blackish, 
branchlets light brown, puberulent, striate; petioles slender, pu- 
escent, about I cm. long, blades 5-8 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. broad, 
oblong to oblong-lanceolate, the base acuminate, apex obtuse, 
entire, membranaceous, bright green, glabrous both sides, the ` 
principal veins 7-9 pairs, connecting some distance from the mar- 
gin; flowers fascicled, pedicels slender, 1.5-2 cni. long, pubescent; 
calyx (in flower) 5 mm. long and broad, hemispherical-campanu- 
late, 5-lobed one-third of the way to the base, the lobes broadly 
triangular, acuminate, canescent; corolla blue, canescent, about 
13 mm. long, campanulate, the lobes 5 mm. long, ovate, acutish, 
slightly spreading; filaments 12 mm. long, membranaceous-di- 
lated below, filiform above, anthers ovate, obtuse, 2 mm. long; 
style filiform, 12 mm. long, the stigma small, capitate; fruiting 
calyx enlarging and partly closing over the depressed-globular 
fruit, the latter apparently not mature in my specimen. : 
Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 (993). Also collected by Pearce in 
