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SOLANACEAE. 



5. Solanmn BJodgettii Chapm., Fl. 60. V. S. 349. 1860. 



An unarmed shrub, 0.5-1.5 m. high, the branches spreading, the young 

 twigs, leaves and inflorescence stellate-tomentulose. Leaves oblong, 5-15 cm. 

 long, entire or undulate, obtuse or acute at the apex, mostly obtuse at the 

 base, the petioles 1-3 cm. long; peduncles longer than the leaves; panicles 

 dense, short, several-many-flowered; pedicels 3-7 mm. long; calyx about 3 

 mm. long, its teeth minute, deltoid; corolla white or blue, its lobes linear or 

 linear-lanceolate, 6-7 mm. long, pubescent without; anthers linear, apically 

 dehiscent; ovary glabrous; berries red, 4^6 mm. in diameter. 



Scrub-lands, North Cat Cay, Biminis : — ^Florida. Blodgett's Solanum:. 



6. Solanum torvuin Sw. Prodr. 47. 1788. 



A stellate-tomentulose shrub, 1-4 m. high, the rather stout branches 

 sparingly armed with short flattened, nearly straight prickles, or unarmed. 

 Leaves broadly ovate in outline, 5-20 cm. long, stout-petioled, angular-lobed or 

 sinuate-margined, acute or obtuse at the apex, truncate or subcordate at the 

 base, sometimes with a few prickles on the petiole and on the midvein be- 

 neath, the upper surface scabrous; cymes lateral, short-peduncled, several- 

 flowered; flowering pedicels slender, glandular, 5-8 mm. long, thickening in 

 fruit; calyx glandular, about 4 mm. long, 5-cleft, its lobes ovate, acute; 

 corolla white, 5-cleft, 10-15 mm. broad; berry globose, 10-14 mm. in diameter, 

 yellow. 



Waste and cultivated grounds near Nassau, New Providence : — Bermuda (accord- 

 ing to Grisebach) ; West Indies and continental tropical America. Bushy White 

 Solanum. 



7. Solanum didymacanthum Millsp. Field Mus. Bot. 2: 183. 1906. 



Branches' stellate-pilose, prickly; leaves minute, entire, stellate-pilose on 

 both surfaces. Plants shrubby, branched, 1-2 m. high; prickles needle-like, 

 in pairs at the nodes, 2-3 times as long as the leaves, slightly recurved, 

 divaricately horizontal, reddish brown, thickened at the 'base, somewhat less 

 than 12 mm. long; leaves fasciculate, petiolate, oblong or obovate, entire, 

 about 3 mm. long, the base acute, the apex acute or obtuse; iniflorescence 

 terminal, solitary, single-flowered; peduncles, calyx and corolla stellate-pilose, 

 unarmed; calyx 5-dentate; corolla white, 5-partite, the lobes liguliform, about 

 8 mm. long, somewhat shorter than the corolla; avary globose; style flliform, 

 longer than the stamens; berry sessile, globose, compressed at the base and 

 apex, yellow, translucent, not exceeding the persistent calyx. 



Coppices and scrub-lands, Cat Island near Port Howe, Great Bxuma on Haynes 

 Eoa<J. Endemic. Cat's-paw. 



3. CAPSICUM L. Sp. PI. 188. 1753. 



Annual or perennial herbs or shrubs, with forking stems. Leaves flat, 

 entire or repand. Flowers solitary in the axils, or in small cymes. Calyx 

 scarcely accrescent, somewhat 5-lobed. Corolla usually white, nearly rotate, 

 its lobes 5, imbricated. Stamens 5, adnate to the base of the corolla; anthers 

 bluish, the sacs opening lengthwise. Ovary 2-3-celled; stigma club-shap'ed or 

 dilated. Berries red, yellow or green, often nodding, pungent. Seeds flattened. 

 [Latin, capsa, a box, referring to the shape of the fruit in forms of the 

 typical species.] About 30 species, natives of America. Type species: Cap- 

 sicum annuum L. 



