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villous below, appressed-hispid above; the hispidulous filiform teeth 
twisted and hooked at the tips, becoming 4 mm. in length: corolla white, 
early deciduous ; the tube 13 to 15 mm. long, spreading above to a limb 
2} em. broad, with shallow rounded lobes: stamens unequally inserted 
above the base of the minutely pubescent corolla-tube ; anthers pubes- 
cent: stigmas filiform : fruiting calyx enclosing the ovate-oblong muricu- 
late and minutely puberulent drupe. — Occurring rarely in the thickets 
upon hillsides, November, 1894 (no. 70). 
Solanum lignescens. Erect, lignescent, 4 or 5 dm. high, spar- 
ingly branched, the older parts covered with a thin brownish cortex; 
branches, leaves, pedicels, and calyces viscid and covered with slightly 
fuscous stellate hairs: leaves mostly solitary, rarely geminate, ovate-ob- 
long, entire, on thickish petioles 7 to 13 mm. long, acute at base, blunt or 
rounded at the apex, dull green and sparingly pubescent above, pale and 
densely pubescent beneath, especially on the midrib and the 7 to 11 
lateral veins: umbels 3-6-flowered, subsessile a little below the leaves ; 
the peduncles in fruit becoming 3 or 4 mm. long; pedicels reflexed, in 
anthesis 7 to 10 mm. long, in fruit becoming twice that length: calyx 
short-campanulate, 3 mm. long, with 5 oblong obtuse lobes: corolla 
white, minutely pubescent, 14 cm. broad, with lance-ovate acute lobes: 
stamens oblong, about 4 mm. long: style slightly exserted: berries 
smooth, black, 12 mm. in diameter. — In fields, high up on the mountains, 
November, 1894 (no. 216). The fresh plant, according to Dr. Palmer, 
the odor of tobacco. . 
Herpestis decumbens. Rather stout, 3 dm. or so high from a 
decumbent base ; the hollow quadrangular stem much branched and deli- 
cately spotted with pale green and brown: leaves 4 or 5 em. long, lanceo- 
late, acuminate, with thickish margins, appressed-serrate above, cuneate 
below to half-clasping slightly decurrent bases, glabrous, irregularly pitted 
beneath: flowers solitary in the axils of the short upper leaves; pedicels 
about 2 mm. in length: calyx subtended by a pair of lanceolate bracts 
4 mm, long ; the three outer sepals ovate with rounded or subcordate 
bases, 7 to 9 mm. long, strongly nerved, the posterior larger than the 
others; inner sepals lanceolate, acuminate, glandular-ciliate on the 
Margins and midrib, about 7 mm. in length: corolla bilabiate, scarcely 
*xceeding the calyx, the upper lip 2-lobed ; the tube sparingly pubescent 
below the four short stamens: ovary and capsule ovate-oblong, covered 
with pellucid dots ; style thickish, dilated, 2-lobed at the apex: capsule 
* st 6 mm. high; seed minute, black, oblong, truncated, and strongly 
“eticulated. — In wet bottoms, March, 1895 (no. 609). A rather stout 
