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64. S0LAXACEJ5. 
The only pi. I can find in the great English Herbaria at all 
like this is a spec, in BH. marked u S. patulum ” with an old 
ticket inscribed u S. nigrum — an distincta sp. ? Mill. Diet. no. 4 
— e seminibus aegyptiacis a Forskalio missis — annuum, baccse 
rubrae Miller; ” and with “Hort. Chelsea 1763 ” written at the 
back. Yet, whatever this may be, the Mad. pi. can neither be 
referred to S. Dillenii Schult. ( = S. nigrum* patulum Pers. = 
S. procerius patulum &c. Dillen. Elth. 367, t. 275. f. 355) 
which has the u st. and branches round, the pedic. erecto-patent 
in fr. and berries black ” (Dun. in DC. xiii. 47 and Willk. et 
Lange ii. 527), nor to the obscure S. rubrum Mill. Diet. no. 4 
(Dun. in DC. 1. c. p. 57), the typical spec, of which is also ex- 
tant in BH., and which, though referred by Grisebacli (W. I. 
FI. 437) to S. nodiflorum Jacq., seems to me rather the smooth 
state or var. (3 (S. miniatum Bernh.) of S. villosum Lam. It 
approaches also S. Jiumile Bernh., but differs in its large robust 
suffrutescent habit and woody elongate rampant straggling 
smooth or nearly smooth wide-spreading branches, &c. 
Though so much larger and stouter a pi. than S. nigrum, the 
fl. are much smaller and so is usually the fr. 
f3. S. villosum Lam. 
Musk-scented mostly erect, pale dull gr. more or less greyish- 
hoary or glaucescent, subdichotomously and remotely branched ; 
branches stout stiff' erecto-patent angular or sometimes sub- 
denticulately winged upwards (rarely terete) furry-strigulose 
or villoso-pubescent at least upwards ; 1. with rather long 
winged villoso-pubescent petioles, thickish more or less stri- 
guloso-pubescent or even velvety and hoary, rarely smooth, 
rounded or rounded-oval, abruptly cuneate or subtruncate at 
the base, coarsely sinuato-toothed or lobed subremotely but 
subequably all round, teeth or lobes few short broad mostly 
obtuse or rounded ; cymes superaxillary pedunculate 2-5- 
mostly 3- or 4-lld. racemoso-umbellate ; pedic. pubescent, de- 
flexed in fr. ; sep. spathulate fleshy and reflexed in fr. ; lobes 
of cor. outside towards the tips and fil. velvety-strigulose ; 
berries drooping dull watery orange-red or scarlet subpellucid 
shining, nearly or quite smooth mostly globose. S. villosum 
and S. miniatum Auct. — Herb. aim. Mad. reg. 1, 2, c ; not seen 
in PS. or the Desertas. Yarr. : — 
a. velutina Lowe; young shoots villous,!, furry-tomentose 
or velvety-pubescent thickish hoary-grey. — S. villosum Lam. 111. 
