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base, acute to acuminate at the apex, entire or somewhat repand- 
dentate, puberulent at least on the veins, long-petioled ; peduncles 
5-7 mm. long, erect, in fruit 9-12 mm. long, reflexed; calyx 3.5 
mm. long, densely short-villous, the lobes lanceolate, about as 
long as the tube; corolla campanulate, short-pilose, 5-5.6 mm. 
wide, yellow, without a dark center; fruiting calyx ovoid, 3-4.5 
cm. long, 2.5-3 cm. wide, angled. 
Waste places and river banks, Camaguey, Santa Clara and 
Havana (type, Britton & Wilson 5767); Guatemala. 
Solanum moense Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
A straggling tree 3 m. high, the slender twigs and branches 
armed with brownish prickles 2-2.5 mm. long, hispid with fer- 
ruginous, stalked, stellate hairs. Leaves oblong to elliptic, 6-9 
cm. long, 2.2-3.5 cm. broad, acute to acuminate at the apex, some- 
what inequilateral and rounded at the base, entire with the mar- 
gin more or less revolute, lustrous and with few slender brownish 
prickles above, the midvein and primary veins impressed, paler, 
dull and hispid beneath with stalked stellate hairs, the midvein 
and primary veins prominent; petioles 4-5 mm. long; peduncles 
3.5 cm. long, stellate-hispid; fruiting calyx 2 cm. wide; berries 
globose, 2.5 cm. in diameter; seeds suborbicular, 4 mm. long, 5 
mm. broad, flattened. 
Thickets, Camp La Gloria, south of Sierra Moa, Oriente 
(Shafer 8125). : 
Cestrum Wrightianum P. Wilson, sp. nov. 
A shrub about 1 m. high, the branches conspicuously tomen- 
tose with branching star-like hairs. Leaves ovate, 5-8.5 cm. 
long, 2.5—4.8 cm. broad, short-acuminate at the apex, rounded and 
more or less subcordate at the base, sparingly tomentose on both 
surfaces when young with ferruginous star-like hairs; petioles 
5-9 mm. long, tomentose; inflorescence shorter than the leaves ; 
calyx cylindric, tomentose, its lobes triangular, about I mm. long; 
corolla 1.92.2 cm. long, the tube rather slender, the lobes lanceo- 
late, 5-6 mm. long, acuminate; filaments slender, pilose, adnate 
to a little above the middle of the corolla-tube; style slender; 
stigma subcapitate, included. 
Cuba (C. Wright 386, herb. N. Y. Botanical Garden). 
Cestrum Taylori Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
A glabrous tree, 5-8 m. high, with slender pale brown twigs. 
Leaves elliptic to somewhat elliptic-lanceolate, 13-15 cm. long, 
