SOLANUM. 
77 
no. 2338 ; Poir. in Lam. Diet. iv. 289 ; Brot. i. 283 ; Willd. Enum. 
236 ; Dun. Hist. Sol. 1*57 ; Spr. i. 680 ; Koch 583 ; WB. iii. 122 ; 
Dun. in DC. xiii. 58 ; Willk. et Lange ii. 527. S. nigrum var. c 
Vill. Dauph. ii. 494. 8. nigrum y. villosum Linn. Sp. 266 ; j3. vil~ 
losum Ait. H. K. i. 399; * villosum ( moschatum ) Pers. i. 224; [3, 
villosum Coss. et Germ. 274. 8. miniatum (3 et y Dun. in DC. 
xiii. 56 ? S. annuum hirsutius, baccis luteis Moris. Hist. iii. 520. 
no. 3 ; Dillen. Eltham. 366, t. 274. f. 353. — On the sides of walls, 
in dry waste ground by roadsides, and an occasional weed in 
gardens. About Funchal to the westward, at the Valle, the 
Mount in Mr. Gordon’s kitchen-garden, &c. At most seasons 
but chiefly in summer and aut.— - A stout upright pi. stiffly 
and sparingly fork-branched erectly mostly from the base,, not 
bushy or leafy, with more or less hoary or dull gr. foliage, the 
st. sometimes simple and branched only at the top, 1-2 ft. high ; 
the branches stiffly ascending or erecto-patent sometimes dif- 
fuse or reclinate, hard stout remote dark lurid v., strongly 
angular and often narrowly denticulately winged as in S. nigrum, 
mostly furry downwards and almost villous towards the ends. 
Petioles |-1| in. long purple or v. winged, villoso-pubescent. 
L. subfasciculate from the early development of their axillary 
buds, 1-2 in. in diam., roundish or as broad as long, whilst 
young more ovate and pointed, all notwithstanding their de- 
currency down the petiole abrupt and transversely truncate at 
the base, flat or but slightly waved, rather thick in substance, 
pubescent on both sides, often hoary especially in summer, but 
always of a paler less lurid or blackish gr. than in 8. nigrum ; 
the veins beneath large distinct and prominent and purplish or 
v. ; the margins broadly and regularly sinuate all round, the 
lobes or sinuses broad and rounded, mostly 7, sometimes 8-10, 
the middle lobe obtuse and not more prominent than the rest. 
FI. drooping rather small, the size of those of 8. nigrum. Ped. 
mostly far supraaxillary or a little below the axil (though on 
the opposite side the st.) of the 1. above that to which they 
belong, villous straight round, not more than | in. long. Pedic. 
round pubescent 5 lines long, not all originating from the same 
point and hence racemoso-umbellate, abruptly deflexed in fr. 
FI. mostly fewer than in 8. nigrum, 2-5, mostly 3 or 4. Sep. 
villous v. or purplish, appearing before the cor. falls, spathulate 
and very obtuse from the paleness of their membranous mar- 
gins ; in fr. strongly reflexed and somewhat fleshy. Cor. 
similar in size and all respects to that of 8. nigrum, w. or pur- 
plish with the midrib of each pet. y. towards the centre and v. 
or purple towards the tips. Berries dull reddish or. or red-lead 
col. (that of the fr. of Lycopersicum cerasiforme Dun.), show- 
ing the seeds within, smooth or with only a short hair here and 
there, always as far as I have seen in numerous both living and 
herb. spec, perfectly globose, rather larger than those of 8. 
