FERNALD. — MEXICAN SOLANUMS. 561 
cordate or rounded at base, entire or slightly undulate, the larger 1.7 to 
2.4 dm. long, 1.1 to 1.4 dm. wide, at first stellate-pubescent ea soon 
quite glabrous and lucid, cinereous-tomentose beneath; primary nerves 
5 to 7 pairs; petioles thick, 2 to 4 cm. long: i Aasianguae extra-axillary, 
bifid or trifid, becoming 6 or 8 cm. long, the branches scorpoid-racemose, 
densely flowered, ochraceo-cinereous ; pedicels in fruit becoming strongly 
deflexed: calyx in anthesis 2 mm. paid with short rounded lobes: 
corolla densely stellate without, 6 or 7 mm. high, barely 1 cm. broad, 
with long lanceolate lobes : anthers cea eacmelal truncate, 3 or 4 
mm. oar) style slightly longer, sparingly stellate-pubescent : berry 
glabrous or sparingly puberulent, 1 cm. or more in diameter. — PANAMA, 
Chagres, Jan., 1850 (A. Fendler, no. 246); near Gatun, Dec., 1859 
(Sutton Hayes). 
* * Short stellate pubescence of flowering branches mixed with long slender 
naked hairs. 
S.erythrotrichum. Strongly armed with deltoid mostly hooked 
stout prickles: branches densely reddish-tomentose with appressed 
stellate hairs and longer naked jointed trichomes: leaves oblong, acumi- 
nate, rounded at the base, subentire, 1 to 1.7 dm. long, 3 to 8 cm. wide, 
ferrugineous-green sparingly stellate and strongly rugose above, toment- 
ulose beneath, at first rufescent, later cinereous, rarely armed on the 
midrib beneath; primary nerves 5 to 7 pains ; petiole 1.5 to 2.5 cm. 
long, rufescent : peduncle extra-axillary, 3.5 cm. long, few-flowered, 
tufescent ; pedicels short (7 mm.), thickish ; calyx in fruit deeply cut 
into lanceolate lobes 6 or 7 mm. long: fruit puberalent, becoming glab- 
rate, about 1 cm. in diameter. —GuaTEMALA, Coban, Depart. Alta Vera- 
paz, alt. 1,325 m:, Feb., 1888 (H. von Tuerckheim in exsice. J. D. Smith 
no. 1381). 
* * » Branches clothed with long stellate-tipped hairs with broad bases. 
S. HIsPipuM, Pers. Armed with long stout hooked-prickles, and 
densely pubescent with ochraceous or fuscous distinct stiff trichomes : 
leaves ovate, subcordate or attenuate at base, 0.5 to 2 dm. long, subentire 
or with 5 to 11 sinuate lobes; above ferrugineous with distinct stipitate 
stellate hairs, or glabrate, and often with long sharp prickles on the 
nerves; beneath cinereous with similar hairs, the nerves often spiny. 
— Syn. i, 228 ; Dunal, l. ¢. 275. S. stellatum, Ruiz & Pay. Fl. Per. ii. 
40, 176. 8. chrysotrichum, Schlecht. Linnaea, xix, 304; Dunal, 1. ¢. 
nog meee From the yariable material now at hand it seems impossible to 
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