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SOLANUM Anguivi. 
Madagascar Potato. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA._Nat. Ord. SOLANEM. 
Gen. Char.— Ca/. 5-10-partitus. Cor. subrotata, 4-10-fidus. Antheroe con- 
niventes apice poro gemino dehiscentes. Bacca 2-3-4-locularis, placen- 
tis septo adnatis. Semina glabra. 
Solanum Anguivi ; frutescens ubique stellato-tomentosum parce acu- 
leatum, foliis geminis ovatis angulato-lobatis, racemis parvis, calyci- 
bus campanulatis 5-dentatis inermibus. 
Solanum Anguivi, Lam. Did. v. iv. p. 304.— //Z. Gen. No. 2375— Duval, 
Solan, p. 227. 
A low frutescent shrub, with straggling branches, tomentose, as is every 
other part of the plant, with short stellated pubescence: there are like- 
wise a few short, curved, orange-coloured aculei upon the stems and 
petiols, and occasionally straight ones upon the nerves of the leaf. 
Leaves distantly placed, springing in pairs from the same point, 3-4 or 
5 inches long, ovate, acute, angulato-lobate, with generally 2 very pro- 
minent, more or less acute, angles on each side, upon rather short foot- 
stalks. 
Racemes axillary, springing alternately about half-way between each pair 
of leaves, short, subcorymbose, of 6-8 rather small white flowers. Ca- 
lyx small, campanulate, 5-toothed, green. Corolla pubescent externally, 
5-partite, the segments reflexed. Stamens 5, equal. Filaments very 
short ; Anthers large, erect, connivent, each with two pores at the ex- 
tremity. Fistil: Germen spherical, pale green; Style much longer than 
stamens ; Stigma obtuse. 
Gathered in the Island of Madagascar (where it was first 
discovered by Commerson) by Messrs Helsinger and 
BojER, and dried specimens have been communicated to me, 
along with many other valuable plants of that country, by Mr 
Telfair. The same gentleman sent seeds to Mr Barclay, 
who, with his usual liberality, has made us partakers of this 
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