﻿PLATE DXI. 



S O LAN UM BETACEUM. 

 Beet-like Solatium. 



C L A S S V. ORDER I. 

 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 Corolla rotata. Antherae subcoalitae, apice II Blossom wheel-shaped. Anthers nearly joined 

 poris geminis, dehiscentes. Bacca bilocu- together, with holes in pairs at the 



laris - ' ' and splitting. Berry two-locular. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 olanum caule inermi, erecto, maculato, al- 

 tissirao : foliis radicalibus permagnis, fceti- 

 dissimis: corollis carneis, patentibus, ad 

 apicem sub-reflexis, qui cucullatus est. 

 Cavanilles Icones, vol. vi. 15. tab. 524. 



Nightshade with an unarmed stem, upright, 

 spotted, and very tall. The radical leaves 

 are very large, and extremely fetid. Blos- 

 soms flesh-coloured, spreading, and s 

 what reflexed at the point, which is hooded. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . The empalement. 



2. A blossom spread open. 



3. Seed-bud and pointal. 



4. A transverse section of the seed-bud magni 



This gigantic plant is by far the largest species of Solanum at present known. Our figure represents 

 the upper part of a plant that was twelve feet high, and the only one that ever flowered in this king- 

 dom, m tie collection of A. B. Lambert, esq. w ho informed me that the radical leaves measured fifteen 

 inches in breadth and twenty in length. There is but one figure of it extant, and that is in the Icones 

 of Cavandles who knew not whence it was indigenous : but it is supposed to be a native of South 

 America It thrives best against the shelter of a south wall in summer, but in winter requires t 

 Inolu s T? 0US ;V WC haVC ^-P 1 -* ^ it in the collection at Holland-hou 

 enormous size ot whose folmge then indicated an equal magnitude with c 

 flowering state At present it is very scarce, and likely so to continu< 

 be very strongly unpregnated with saltpetre. 



