364 



diam. ca. 8 mm ; semina satis numerosa, reniformia, valde lenticulariter 

 applanata, ca. 2 — 2,2:1,8:0,5 mm, flavida, manifeste minnte reticu- 

 lata; granula sclerotiea desunt. 



Ecuador: Balao, in Wäldern, Eggers, Fl. Amer. trop. n. 14386! 

 (hb. Monac), — Januar fruchtend; El Recreo, in Waldungen, Eggers, 

 Fl. Amer. trop. n. 15682! (hb. Berol.) — Februar fruchtend. 



31. Lycianthes lenta (Cav.) Bitt. n. comb. 



Solanum lentum Cav. Icon. et descript. IV (1797), 336, tab. 

 308; Pers.'Syn. pl. I (1805), 222; Dun. Hist. Sol. (1813), 175; Dun. 

 Sol. Syn. (1816), 25; H. B. K., Nov. gen. et spec. pl. III (1818), 38; 

 Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veget. IV (1819), 612; Spreng. Syst. Veg. I 

 (1825), 686; Walp. Rep. III (1844—45), 65; Richard in Ramon de la 

 Sagra Hist. fis. etc. Cuba II, T. XI (1850), 122; Dun. in DC. Prodr. 

 XIII, I (1852), 172; Griseb. Fl. Brit. West-Ind. Isl. (1864), 439 (excl. 

 plant. Cruegeriana Trinitensi); Griseb. Catal. PI. Cab. (1866), 189; 

 Sauvalle, Fl. Cubana (1868), 104; Maza, Periant. 268; Combs in 

 Transact. Acad. Sei. of St. Louis VII (1897), 447. 



Solanum umbellatum Willd. mscr. in Herb. Willd. — non Dun.; 



Solanum cumanense Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veget. IV (1819), 

 662; Dun. in DC. Prodr. XIII, I (1852), 371; 



Solanum sylvaticum Schlechtdi. Linnaea V (1830), 112 — non 

 Dunal; 



Solanum quadriflorum Mart. et Gal. En. Syn. 14; Bull. Acad. 

 Brux. XII, I (1845), 139; Schlechtendal PI. Leibold. in Linnaea XIX 

 (1847), 300; Dun. in DC. Prodr. XIII, I (1852), 169; Hemsl. in Biol. 

 Centr. Amer. Botan. II (1881—82), 413; 



Solanum affine Dan. in DC. Prodr. XIII, I (1852), 168; 



Solanum virgatum Lam. var. ß lentum 0. E. Schulz in Urban, 

 Symb. Antill. VI (1909), 189; 



Solanum virgatum Lam. var. 7 caracasanum 0. E. Schulz in Drb., 

 Symb. Antill. VI (1909), 190 (p. pte.: solum pro planus Venezolanis). 



Fruticosa, scandens, nonnumquam paulum volubilis, 3 m alta; 

 rami superiores teretes, diam. 1,5—3 mm, flexuosi, primo pilis 

 pallide fuscescentibus brevibus brevissime stipitatis sub- 

 stellatis, quorum radii acuti simplices vel parcius iterum ramosi 

 sunt, in statu novello densis serius paulo sparsioribus obtecti, tandem 

 cortice pallide fuscescente vel subeinereo leviusculo prftediti; inter- 

 nodia 5 — 7,5, in ramis elongatis volubilibus usque ad 15 cm longa; 

 folia inferiora solitaria, superiora false geminata inaequalia; petioli 

 ca. 1 — 1,8 cm longi, eodem indumento quo rami vestiti; laminae 

 ovatae, basi rotundate vel +_ ve euneate in petiolum angusta- 

 tae, ad apicem versus sensim euneatim aogustatae, in apice ipso 

 obtusae, 4:2,8, 6 : 3,6 usque ad 8 : 4 cm, minores ca. 3: 1,5 — 3,5:2 cm, 

 supra obscure virides pilis brevissimis stellatis pauciradiatis sparsis 

 obsitae, subtus pallidiores, pilis stellatis brevibus pallide fuscescentibus 

 densis obteetae; vena media et venae later. prim. in utroque latere 

 5 curvatim ascendentes subtus manifeste prominentes; inflores- 

 centiae sessiles in axillis foliorum, ca. 4 — 5 (raro— 6)-florae; 



