By Mr. John Lindley. 



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during the summer, and flowers from June to the end of 

 August. It may be propagated by cuttings, but it is fre- 

 quently raised from Chilian seeds. 



It is satisfactory to be thus enabled to add a new and very 

 distinct species to the leprous division of Solanum. That now 

 described is related to S. leprosum and to S. Elaeagnifolium, 

 both natives of the same country, but it is obviously distin- 

 guished from either by its smaller, nearly entire leaves, by the 

 position and strength of its prickles, and by the other charac- 

 ters assigned to it in the above definition. 



A native of the lower parts of the range of Cordilleras 

 which separate Chile from the province of Mendoza, where 

 it appears to be not uncommon. There are specimens in 

 the Herbarium of the Society collected by Mr. M'Rae on 

 the Chilian side of the mountains. Seeds of a slight and 

 more alpine variety were also sent to the Society from the 

 neighbourhood of the city of Mendoza, by their valuable 

 correspondent Dr. Gillies, but the latter, unfortunately, 

 did not vegetate.* 



VIII. Alstonia venenata. JR. Brown. 



A. foliis quaternis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis basi attenuatis, eymis 

 dichotomis, corollas tubo sursum ampliato, limbo imberbi acuto, folliculis 

 utrinque attenuatis folium vix aequantibus. R. Brown in Wern. Trans. I. p. 77. 



Presented to the Society in 1824 by the Honourable Court 

 of Directors of the East India Company, being then imported 

 by them. Requires to be cultivated in a stove, where it flowers 

 in July. The plant in the Garden has grown to the height 



* Since this Paper was read, the species has been published by Dr. Hooker 

 in the Botanical Magazine, tab. 2697, under the name of Solanum saponaceum. 



