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mm. long, the filaments nearly a third of the total length, the 

 anthers linear-oblong, straight, not acuminate, the pores look- 

 ing upward and slightly inward. Berry oval, about i cm. 

 long. 



"Trailing 4 to 5 feet. Local in damp open places, clearings, 

 etc., 4,000 to 6,000 feet. Collected on Sierra del Libano, 6,000 

 feet. January 23 and March 18. (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, 

 No. 1175). 



Solanum penduliflorum. 



Specimen consisting of the end of a branch, in young fruit 

 and bearing a single flower. 



Stellate-puberulent throughout, the branch slender, strongly 

 striate, the petioles strongly deflexed at the base. Petioles 

 6 to 20 mm. long, slender, striate 01 costate, sometimes twining, 

 the blades 4 to 5 cm. long, 2 to 3 cm. broad, ovate with lightly 

 cordate base and short-acuminate and acute summit, the slender 

 venation scarcely prominent, the secondaries about 10 on each 

 side, strongly falcate-ascending, the venation loosely reticulate, 

 thin, yellowish-green, softly pubescent. Panicle terminal, the 

 rachis flexuous, the slender branches divaricate and at length 

 somewhat recurved, densely flowered, nodose from the fallen 

 pedicels, the fruits pendulous. Pedicels very slender, 5 to 7 

 mm. long, thickened and costate toward the summit. Calyx 

 cupulate or short-campanula te, about 4 mm. broad and 2 mm. 

 high, lightly 5-ribbed, the lobes very short and broad, mucronu- 

 late. Corolla divided nearly to the base, the lobes 7 to 9 mm. 

 long, lanceolate, acuminate. Filaments very short, one longer 

 than the others, the anthers 4 -mm. long, narrow, lanceolate, 

 the pores large, looking upward and laterally. Berry globose, 

 8 or 9 mm. broad. 



"A vine, 15 feet long. Second growth. Alluvial soil, 

 3^ mile from coast, Don Diego, May 5. Only one plant seen, 

 mostly in fruit, the corolla white, the berry purplish. " Herbert 

 H. Smith, No. 2661.) 

 Solanum scorpioideum. 



Shortly, densely and harshly stellate-hairy and somewhat 

 ferruginous. Branches woody, deep-purple, coarsely angled, 

 sparsely hairy, sparsely armed with short, stout, straight, 

 laterally compressed, slightly hairy or smooth yellow prickles, 

 the branchlets short and stout. Petioles (only the uppsr leaves 

 seen), up to 4 cm. long, stout, sub-terete, sparsely armed like 

 the branchlets. Blades up to 2 dm. long and 17 cm. broad, 

 ovate or obovate, with inaequilateral rounded sub-cordate base 

 and abruptly rather long-acuminate and acutish summit, thick, 

 coarsely toothed, the teeth 3 or 4 on each side, triangular-ovate 



