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MEMOIRS OF THE XEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEX 



venation obscure. Pedicels psendo-axillary, solitary, 1-flowered, 

 filiform, nearly 1 cm. long when fully developed. Calyx-tube 1.5 

 mm. broad, widely campanulate, somewhat 5-angled, the lobes 

 about 1 mm. long, ovate, thickish. Corolla more than 1 cm. 

 broad, deeply 5-parted, the divisions ovate. Stamens nearly 

 equal, 4 nun. long, the filaments a little longer than the anthers, 

 filiform, dilated and slightly connate at the base, the anthers 

 oblong, fully dehiscent longitudinally. Style blackish, about as 

 long as the stamens, sigmoid-curved, the stigma small. 



Huachi, 3,000 feet, H. H. Rushy, August 21, 1921 (no. 680). 

 Solanum setosicalyx 



Branches, petioles, etc., sparsely armed with short, straight 

 divaricate pungent yellow prickles, their bases stout and laterally 

 flattened, their upper portions slender ; scabrous -sA-ith short rigid, 

 pungent Avhite hairs borne on stout papillae. Branchlets woody, 

 very stout, terete, flexuous. Petioles about a fourth of the length 

 of the blades. Leaves to 15 em. long, and about two thirds as 

 broad, irregularly oval, with very unequal subtruncate base and 

 broad summit, very coarsely sinuately dentate, the teeth 2 or 3 

 on each side, directed outward, broadly triangular, mostly ob- 

 tuse, the sinuses of similar form or broader ; upper surface deep- 

 green, sharply strigose, the hairs distinct but numerous; hairs 

 of the lower paler surface much shorter but on much larger 

 papillae. Secondaries about 8 to 10 on each side, widely spread- 

 ing, nearly straight, slightly impressed on the upper surface. 

 Pseudo-racemes lateral, shortly peduncled, more or less re- 

 curved, densely clothed, including the cah-x, with long straight- 

 ish coarse pungent hairs. Pedicels, in flower, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 

 slender. Mature bud 2 cm. long, 1 cm. broad, ovoid, blunt, the 

 calyx nearly half the length, divided nearly to the base, the lobes 

 lance-ovate, attenuate. Corolla apparently pale-violet, tomen- 

 tellate externally, rotate, when expanded 4 cm. broad, the lobes 

 stoutly ribbed. Stamens 1.5 cm. long, one a little longer than the 

 others, the anthers regularly lance-linear, obtuse or subtruncate, 

 the pores small, looking inward, upward and laterally. Fruit 

 unknown. 



A shrub in a coffee plantation at Huachi. 3.000 feet, H. H. 

 Rushy, August 30, 1921 (iw. 451). 



Solanum poinsettiaefolium 



Apparently unarmed; densely short-tomentose throughout, 

 with gray stellate hairs. Branches woody, ascending, rather 



