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MEMOIRS OF THE IfEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 



segments linear, tomentose externally. Stamens suhequal, as 

 long as the corolla, the filaments 2 imn. long, the anthers slender, 

 long-acuminate, the summit recurved, the elongate whitish pores 

 looldng inward. Style considerably longer than the stamens, 

 very slender, recurved. Young fruit globose, shining. 



Trinidad, 700 feet, M. Cardenas {no. 3, special). "A shrub 

 2 feet high, in sandy loam, the flowers white, the fruits black, 

 5 mm. wide." 



Solanum steironematophyllum 



Prickles occasional on branches, petioles and midrib. Young 

 leaves, etc., bearing scattered minute stellate hairs, otherwise 

 glabrous. Branches elongated, slender, flexuous, nearly terete, 

 pale-green. Prickles yellow, shining, very small, ])ungent, nearly 

 straight, terete, or very slightly laterally compressed. Petioles 

 about one fourth as long as the blades, slender, ascending, nar- 

 rowly channeled above. Blades to 14 by 5 cm., regularly lanceo- 

 late with acuminate base and long-acuminate and acute summit, 

 obscurely sinuate, veiy thin, deep-green, the midrib and secon- 

 daries prominent beneath, the secondaries about 10 on each side, 

 slender, strongly ascending, the terminal portions upturned, 

 connected by few crooked tertiaries. Kaceme lateral, sessile or 

 shortly peduncled, about 5- to 10-flowered, the peduncle and 

 rachis more or less angled. Pedicels very slender, about 1.5 cm. 

 long, divaricate, becoming reflexed in fruit. Flowering calyx 

 5 mm. long, the hemispheric tube very short, the lobes narrowly 

 lanceolate. Corolla, just before opening, about 9 mm. long, ap- 

 parently becoming nearly rotate, deeply parted. Stamens 8 mm. 

 long, slightly unequal, the filaments very short, the anthers 

 lanceolate, the beak about one third of the length, slightly 

 curved, the pores small, terminal, looking upward and a little 

 inward. Calyx slightly enlarging in fruit, the berry nearly glo- 

 bose, about 8 to 10 mm. broad. 



{No. 827.) Species very near S. coerulescens Sendt. 



Solanum rogaguense 



Sparsely armed with very short stout straight yellowish 

 prickles, which are somewhat flattened laterally. Younger por- 

 tions and inflorescence very shortly and minutely stellate-puber- 

 ulent. Branchlets elongate, slender, erect or strongly ascending, 

 green, striate, or angled when young. Petioles to 3 cm. long, 

 slender, sparsely prickly, like the midrib underneath and occa- 



