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SOLANUM CAMPANULATUM. 



(Bell-flowered Solarium.) 

 LINNEAN SYSTEM. NATURAL ORDER. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. SOLANEiE. — (JuSS.) SOLANACEjE. — {IAtldl.) 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 Solanum (Lin.) Calyx 4-5-fidus. Corolla rotata rarb campamilata 4-5-fida (plicatave). 

 AnthercB conniventes, apice poro gemino dehiscentes. Bacca subglobosa 2 (raro 4-locularis) 

 polysperma. — Brown. Prod. N. Holl. vol. 1. p. 444. 



Calyx with four or five divisions. Corolla wheel-shaped, rarely bell-shaped, with four or 

 five divisions, or plicate. Anthers converging, dehiscing by two pores at the apex. Berry 

 subglobose, 2, rarely 4-celled, many-seeded. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



S. campanulatum ; suffruticosum, aculeatum, pubescens ; foliis petiolatis ovatis angulatis ; 

 racemis paucifloris ; corollis campanulatis, crenatis ; antheris declinatis. 



Descr. — Suffruticose, prickly, pubescent ; leaves petiolate, ovate, angular ; racemes few- 

 flowered ; corolla bell-shaped, crenated ; anthers declinate. 



Solanum campanulatum. — Brown. 



This very distinct and showy species of Solanum, with a bell-shaped corolla 

 (an unusual form for a Solanum), will doubtless form an interesting addition to 

 those at present in cultivation. It grows about 2^ feet high (such at least was 

 the height of the plant from which our drawing was taken), and is covered on all 

 sides with sharp setaceous prickles, the greater portion of which are confined to 

 the stem and the calyx. We are doubtful whether this plant be the same which 

 Dr. Brown has described in his Prodromus, and on that account we have not 

 altered the specific name " campanulatum;'''' we should however rather expect it 

 to be different, as he has described the stem of his plant " caule herbaceo," and 

 states it to be an annual, whilst ours is certainly suffruticose. 



The Solanum genus is nearly allied to Atropa, Physalis, and Capsicum: from 

 Atropa it differs in its anthers being longer than the filaments, and dehiscing by 

 two pores at the apex ; from Physalis, in not having an inflated calyx ; and from 

 Capsicum, in having a succulent berry, as well as in the dehiscence of the anthers, 

 which in Capsicum dehisce longitudinally. It is a very extensive genus, containing 



