Solarium, pjewtandria mono.gynia. - %\§ 



hum, Linn, which has been well described by Poiret, in Encycl. bot. 

 iv. 279, and by Loureiro, tlor. cochinch. ed. Willd, i. 159.—N. W. 



2. S. aurkulatum, Willd. spec. i. 1025. 



Sub-arboreous, every part downy. Leaves broad-lanceolate, 

 entire. Stipules axillary, obliquely ovate-cordate. Cymes in tha 

 forks of the branchl.ets, dichotomons. 



A native of Mauritius, and introduced by Captain Tenant, into 

 the Botanic Garden at Calcutta; where it blossoms during the jainy 

 and cold seasons, and continues to ripen its fruit from December till 

 May. 



Stem nearly erect, in six years as thick as a man's leg, and about 

 ei<dit feet high.* Bark smooth, ash-coloured. Branches dichoto- 

 mons, spreading much. Bratich/ets and all the tender parts most 

 completely clothed with sessile and pedicelled, hoary, stellate pu-- 

 bescence. — Leaves alternate, petioled, broad-lanceolar, tapering to 

 a rather obtuse point, entire; clothed underneath like the branch- 

 lets ; upper surface a little hairy ; from four to eight inches long, and 

 two or three broad. — Vetiols channelled, downy like the branchlets. 

 — Stipules in sessile, axillary pairs, obliquely ovate-cordate, large, 

 and recurvate round the branchlets, looking more like small com- 

 mon leaves than stipules — Cymes in the forks of the branchlets 

 long-peduncled, dichotomous. Ramifications recurvate, sub-secund. 

 — Flowers numerous, subsessile, small, lively blue-purple. — Berry 

 spherical, size of a small cherry, when ripe of a dull yellow. 



Obs. Independently of the colour of the flowers, the s'tipulae or 

 axillary leaves render this species readily known ; in all other respects 

 it almost exactly resembles the preceding; in that plant there are no 

 stipula?, and the flowers are white. 



3. S. By coper sicum, Willd. sp. i. 1033. 



Annual. Leaves pinnate, gashed. Racemes bipartile, leafleii. 

 fruit smooth, vertically compressed, torulose. 



* I had a plant sixteen feet high which was not more than eijht year* old. E$, 



