438 SOLANE^. 



scales ; leaves elliptical or ovate, pointleted, petioled, entire or repand, dotted above witH 

 minute scales, usually more densely lepidote beneath; cymes terminal or lateral, long- 

 peduncled : pedicels fastigiate, thickened above, lepidote, as well as the flowers; calyx 

 4-lobed, much shorter than the corolla : lobes rouudisli-deltoid ; corolla i-partite : seg- 

 ments ovate-oblonff, bluntish ; anthers oblong.— A tree or shrub, 30'higli; leaves 6"-4", 

 petiole S"'-6"' long ; cymes irregularly dichotomous, 6-13-flowered ; pedicels spreading or 

 cernuous, 4"'-5"', calyx iy"-2"', anthers 3'" long ; coroUa 10"'-8"'diam.— Hab. Jamaica!, 

 Pd., Wile., Macjf., Portland Gap, Manchester, iu moist vfoods near Mandaville.. 



Sect. 3. PLAGiopoKtis. — Anthers oblong, blunt : por'es forming transverse slits, introrse- 

 terminal or terminal. — Stem unarmed ; down stellate ;' cymes corymbiform, peduucled, 

 usually terminal. 



35. S. Ztadula, V. Shrubby, scabrous, with sessile stellate down ; leaves lanceolate, 

 acuminate at both ends, sutsessile, or tapering into a short petiole, entire, greenish on both 

 sides : hair-fascicles somewhat distant ; cymes tertpinal or lateral, long-peduncled : flowers 

 steHate-tomeutose ; caly.v h-lobed, half as long as the corolla : lobes ovate, bluntish ; corolla 

 deeply h-fid: lobes ovate bluntish; anthers oblong: pores transverse, introrse ; style in- 

 flexed ; berry " globose."— -JWiiy. Surin. t. 38. — Leaves 6"-3" long, 13"'-8"' broad ; calyx 

 14"', anthers 1"' long ; corolla white, 4'" diam. — Hab. Trinidad !, Cr., common ; [Cuba, 

 French islands ; Venezuela !, Guiana !-, Brazil !]. 



36. S. asperum, V. Shrubby, scabrous with sessile stellate down ; leaves elliptical 

 or elligtieal-oblong, pointleted, tapering into the winged petiole, entire, greenish, paler 

 beneath : hair-fascicles distinct ; cymes- terminal; long-peduncled : flowers steflate-tomen- 

 tose ; calyx broadly h-dentate, less than half as long as the corolla : teeth deltoid, half as 

 long as their tube; corolla deeply h-fid: lobes ovate-oblong, joozKif^fi?; anthers oblong: 

 pores transverse, introrse ; style incurved ; berry " globose." — Uun. Solan, t. 7. — 10'-12' 

 high ; leaves 8"-6" long, 2V-3" broad : petiole 12"'-8"' long, winged to the base ; calyx 

 2'", anthers 1'" long ; corolla 6'" diam,— Hab. Dominica !, Imr. ; [Cuba to French islauds ; 

 Guiana !, Brazil !]. 



37. S. callicarpifolium, Mth. Shrubby, scabrous and tomentose above tvith stipitate 

 and sessile stellate down ; leaves elliptical, sharply pointed, tapeiing into the petiole, en- 



-"^ tire, scabrous- wrinkled and green above, hoary-tomentose beneath ; cymes terminal, or at 

 length lateral, long-peduncled ; flowers stellate-tomentose ; calyx 'a-fid, half as long as the 

 corolla: lobes deltoid ; corolla 'a -fid: /oi^i ovate-oblong, J/mm<mA; anthers broadly oblong: 

 pores transverse, introrse ; style incurved above; berry globose. — S. asperam, Ssei. 2V. 20 

 ifion r.) .^Leaves 6"-2" long, 3"-l" broad : petiole 12"'-4"' long, rarely winged to the 

 base; calyx 2'", anthers 1'" long ; coroUa 5'". berry 4'" diam., the latter black in drying. — - 

 Hab. S. Vincent !, Guild. ; Trinidad !, Sieb., Lockh., Cr., S. Anns ; [Cuba ! ; Mexico !, 

 Panama !, Guiana 1], 



38. S. verbascifolium,^ Z. Shrubby, wholly, tomentose; leaves ovate, pointed, ab- 

 ruptly passing into the petiole, entire : down soft, hoary- beneath ; cymes terminal, long- 

 peduncled : flowers hoary-'tomentose;-<;«/yT5^<^, half as long as the corolla : lobes deltoid ; 

 corolla Z-parjtite -. lotes ovate-oblong, bluntish ; anthers oblong : pores transverse, terminal ; 

 style straightish; berry globose.— Jacy. H. Find. 1. t. 13. Wight, Ic. t. 1398.— A shrub 



/ or low tree, 8'-12'high, variable in the leaves, greenish or yellowish-grey above, in the 

 down yellowish or hoary, appressed or spreading ; leaves ] O"-?*- petiole li"-4", calyx 2'"- 

 3"', anthers 1'" long : ooroUa white, ' 4"'-6"', berry 4'" diam.— Hab. Jamaica !, all coll. ; 

 Trinidad !, Sieb. Tr. 21 ; [Key West !, Cuba !, and Mexico \ to Brazil ! ; Galapagos ! to East 

 Indies!]. 



Sect. 3. MlcnopORTis, Sendtn. — Anthers ovatcrotlong or oblong, with minute pores at the 

 bluntish point. — Stem unarmed ; flowers in lateral, simp^ umbelliform or cymbiform 

 cymes, or solitary. 



* Oalyx-divisions 5 (Lycianthfes, I)un.). 



39. S. hayanense, Jisi;;. Shrubby, glabrous: leaves lanceolate-oblong or elliptical- 

 oblong, bluntish, tapering into the short petiole, entire ; cymes corymbiform, usually few 

 (-l)-flowered : /oMwr* largt; blue; calyx- deeply &fid, oUe-foOrth to one-sixth as long as 



