New Species op South American Ptants 115 



February lo. Corolla white," may be the same, though the 

 flowers are smaller, and the corolla is less deeply lobed. 



Solanum sacupanense. 



Armed with few small, short, recurved laterally compressed 

 yellow prickles. Finely and closely grayish stellate-hairy and 

 roughish throughout except the shining fruit. Branchlets 

 elongated, sub-erect. Longer petioles 2 cm. long, broad, 

 channelled above, the blades 5 to 10 cm. long, 2.5 to 5 cm. broad, 

 varying from oblong or oval to ovate with acute base and obtuse 

 summit, entire, the slender venation sharply prominent under- 

 neath, the principal secondaries 8 or 9 on each side, somewhat 

 falcate, rather crooked, connected by the few tertiaries. Ra- 

 cemes sub-sessile, simple, few-flowered, spreading or recurved. 

 Pedicels slender, thickened upward, in flower 5 or 6 mm. long, 

 in fruit 10 to 12 mm. Calyx crateriform, lobed about half way, 

 the tube 3 mm. broad , the lobes ovate, acute, appressed. Corolla 

 white, lobed nearly to the base, the lobes widely spreading, i 

 cm. long, lanceolate, acuminate. Stamens nearly i cm. long, 

 the white filaments nearly a third of the total length, the anthers 

 acuminate, nearly straight, the small pores directed upward. 

 Fruiting calyx slightly enlarged, the berry yellow (or red?) 

 shiaing, globose, i cm. broad. 



Sacupana, lower Orinoco, April (Rusby and Squires, No. 22.) 

 Very near to Fendlers 983 from Tovar. Species near S. 

 heterophyila. 



Solanum deltoideum. 



Unarmed and gray-tomentellate throughout or the younger 

 portions tomentose. Apparently herbaceous, the branchlets 

 widely spreading, coarse but weak, sub-terete. Petioles 2 cm. 

 or less long, stout, the blades 4 to 10 cm. long, 3 to 5 cm. broad, 

 deltoid-ovate with sub-truncate base slightly produced into the 

 petiole, and short-acuminate and acute summit, coarsely and 

 unequally dentate with short, more or less triangular teeth and 

 similar sinuses, thin, gray beneath, green above, the slender 

 venation lightly prominent, especially underneath, where it is 

 white and coarsely anastomosing. Racemes umbelliform, few- 

 flowered, the spreading, stout peduncles longer than the pedicels, 

 which are 1.5 cm. long in fruit and reflexed. Flowers not seen. 

 Fruiting calyx 8 mm. broad, lobed more than half way, the 

 lobes narrow, acuminate, the sinuses very broad and rounded. 

 Berry globose, more than i cm. broad, apparently red, glabrous. 



Yungas, Bolivia, 1890 (M. Bang, No. 740.) 



This was published as S. montanum R. & P., but a better 

 acquaintance with that species proves it distinct. 



