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attenuatelv at the base and broadly decurrent down the petiole, 
subundulate repandly angular or sparingly and irregularly but 
sharply and strongly toothed ; cymes small and inconspicuous, 
far superaxillary shortly pedunculate racemoso-umbellate 2-5- 
mostly 3-iid. ; pedic. nearly as long as ped. reflexed or drooping 
from first to last, both (like the sep. and young 1.) substriguloso- 
puberulous ; berries drooping dull reddish orange or miniaceous, 
(in earlier stages pale yellowish or dull watery ochre-y.) pel- 
lucid smooth shining. — S. humile WB. iii. 122 F (not Bernh.). 
— Herb, suflf utescent ann. Mad. reg. 2 (upper part) or 3 (lower 
part), rr. Rib. de S ta Luzia, from about half a mile below to the 
foot of the waterfall itself, in the bed of the ravine on the W. 
side of it ; “ S. Vicente at the Forno de Cal, Seixal, Serra" do 
Fayal (Levada da Fajaa dos Vinhaticos) and Rib. do Vasco 
Gil ” near Funchal, S r Moniz. At various seasons i. e. March- 
Dec. — V ery distinct from every state of S. nigrum or villosum 
by its larger size robust straggling rankly growing habit, 
flaunting elongated branches, glossy bright gr. foliage and large 
sharply toothed and pointed 1. Whole pi. scentless. Branches 
2 ft. long or more, decumbent or diffuse quite smooth or gla- 
brescent strongly denticulately winged compressed or 2-edged 
and warted, the warts scattered and often tipped with a short 
incurved w. hair or bristle. Petioles |-1 in. long ; 1. 2-3| in. 
long, half as broad, thin flaccid membranous, the younger only 
sparingly and minutely substriguloso-puberulous, sharply and 
strongly toothed at or below the middle and always acute or 
shortly acuminate. Ped. very short | in. long, placed nearly 
at the top of the internodes or at least mostly nearer to the 
next above than to their own proper axil, mostly 3-, rarely 4- 
7-fld. Pedic. very little if at all shorter tlmn the ped., round 
and rough like the ped. to which they are articulated, drooping 
or refracted even in the bud and fl., not all originating from 
the same point. Sep. herbaceous gr. short obtuse without 
membranous edges, patent or subreflexed in fr. ; tube adpressed 
dark v. Cor. rather smaller than in S. nigrum or S. villosum , 
bright w. or yellowish w. with a very distinct narrow v. -purple 
line up each pet., quite scentless. Berries perfectly globose 
dull reddish or. or red-lead col., perhaps a little duller than in 
8. villosum , and sometimes (immature ?) pale yellowish or dull 
watery ochre-y., subpellucid, showing the seeds inside, very 
juicy, subacid and with the nauseous raw taste of Tomatos 
( Lycopersicum esculentum or cerasiforme). Seeds yellowish w. 
reticulato-punctate flat as in S. nigrum. 
Raised in England (Northamptonshire) in 1800 b^ my friend 
the Rev. M. J. Berkeley from Mad. seeds, this pi. preserved all 
its characters, from which it never deviates in Mad. 
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