SOLANE^. 443 



fubescmt beneath; oymps lateral, few-] -flowered, sessile; ealyx deeply i-i-fid, half as 

 long as the small corolla : lohes oblong, blunt; corolla vihite, i-i-partite : segments ovaie- 

 oblong, bluntish, tmce as long as the anthers; berry globose, — Fahl, Smb. 3. t. 55. — It 

 approaches Lydanthes in the form of tbe antbers, but Leptostemon in habit and other 

 characters, especially S. Aquartia, Dun., and S. crotonoides. Lam. (both graciliflora of 

 Cuba).- Leaves 3"-2", pedicels 3'", corolla 2'", anthers 1"' long ; berry 8"' diam.— Hab. 

 Trinidad I, Fd., Lockh., in W9stp ground, Pprt pf Spain ; [S. Tbomas, S, Croix]. 



13. OESTRUM, L, 



Corolla iufundibular or salver-shaped : tube clavate or filiform : limb short, induplicative. 

 Stamens 5 (7-4), inserted into the corolla-tube : anthers longitudinally dehiscent. Pericarp 

 baccate. Embryo straight. — Shrubs \ leaves entire ; cymes usually eHra-axillary, resem- 

 bling a centripetal injlorescence ; flowers usually fragrant, expanding at fixed hours, often 

 changing colour during anthesis : corolla-limb pubescent at the margin. 



The teeth appearing on the filaments, are often suppressed in otherwise identical speci- 

 mens, and the inflated corolla-base depends upon thp growth of the ovary : hence both chief 

 characters, upon which Dunal arranged the utterly confounded species of this genus, are 

 quite obsolete. I cftll subsessilp flowers those in which a short pedicel is developed late and 

 above a joint. 



* Filaments very short, inserted into the corolla-throat. 



60. C. vespertmum, L., Sw. ! {non Dun.). Branchlets puberulons ; leaves chartaceous- 

 membranaceous, ovate-lanceolate or elliptical-oblong, bluntish, glabrescent : veins delicate; 

 cymes contracted, few-flowerpfl, subsessile; flowers subsessile, white; calyx 5-dentate: 

 te§th subulate-deltoid ; ooralladuie filiform, glabrous, inflated abruptly at the throat : 

 lobes oblong-linear ; stamens included, inserted into the corolla-throat ; filaments as long as 

 the anthers, entire; berry ovoid, blue, shortly tapering at the base. — Jacq. Amer. Pict. 

 t. 16. Jacq. Schmnbr. t. 328. Murr. in Nov. Comm, Got. 5. I. 8. — Jxora alternifolia, 

 Jaeq. C. depauperstum. Bun. C. hirtum, Sieb. {non Sw). C. Poepnigii, Sendtn. I, a form 

 with shorter flowers.— Leaves 2"-4", calyx V"-l\"', corolla 8"'-12"''(-6"'), berry 3"' long. 

 — Hab. Dominica !, /mc, St. Vincent I, Guild.; Trinidad!, Or.; [French islands; Pana- 

 ma 1 to Peru I and equatorial Brazil I] 



61. C. pallidum, X<em. Glabrous s leaves chartaceous-merabranaceqns, oblong or elr 

 liptical, with a bluntish point : veins delicate ; cymes racemiform, or few-flowered ; flowers 

 pedicellate, pale-yellow; calyx 5-dentate i teeth ovate, blunt; corolla-tube c\ava.te, gradu- 

 ally dilated into the throat : lobes ovate, blunt, at length reflexed, with the style ex^erted ; 

 stamens included, inserted into the corolla-throat : filaments as long as the anthers, entire; 

 berry ovoid, blue, shortly tapering at the base. — SI. t. 2Q4, / 2. — C. tinctorium, Jacq. 

 (Schwnbr. t. 332) is to be compared : in the figure there are white flowers, and globose 

 berries.— Leaves 5"-!^", pedicels 1'", calyx 2"'-li"', corolla 6"'-8"', bprry 3"'long.— Hab. 

 Bahamas I, Swains. ; Jamaica !, Al., March, near Kingston ; [Haiti I]. 



** Filaments much longer than the anthers, inserted above or into the middle of the 



corolla-tube. 



62. C. latifolium, Lam. Branchlets pubescent; leaves membramaceous, ovate, 

 pointed, glabrescent ; veins delicate ; cymes cDutracted, subsessile : flowers subsessile ; 

 calyx shortly 5-fid : lobes deltoid-subulate ; corolla-inbe filiform, clavate, gradually taper- 

 ing, glabrous : lobes lanceolate-linear ; stamens included, inserted above the middle of the 

 coroUa-tube : filaments entire ; berry " oblong."— Fahl, Eclog. t. 10.^0. chloranthum, 

 Dare. .'-Leaves 6"-5", calyx 1'", coroUa 12"'-10"' long.— Hab. Trinidad 1, &>6. 2V. 143, 

 Cr., at S. Anne. 



63. C. macrophyllum, Vent. Glabrous (except the axis of the cymes) ; leaves char- 

 taceous, large, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, arch-vpined ; primary veins prorni- 

 nent beneath, at length impressed above ; cymes contracted, syb?essile : flowers subsessile, 

 yellowish, changing colour ; calyx 5-dentate : teeth deltgid or minute ; oorolla-tube clavate, 

 gradually tapering, glabrous : lobes ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong ; stamens included, 

 inserted aboiit the middle of the corolla-tube ; filaments puberulons, entire or bearing a 



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