SOLANUM. 
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pubescent 1. of S. villosum Auct. joined with the red or minia- 
ceous globose berries of S. miniatum. 
§ 2. Cerasocarpum Lowe. Shr. or suffrut. with slender vir- 
gate twiggy branches. L. narrow lanceolate or ovato- 
lanceolate entire repand or undulate smooth or glabre- 
scent. Cymes or rac. often subsessile and reduced to 
1-3 or 4 aggregate pedicels. FI. small w. Berries rarely 
more than 1 or 2 together globose size of a cherry or 5 
or 6 lines in diam., or., red or y. 
f4. S. pseudocapsicum L. Pimenteira brava or Erva de 
Maria; Berradura at Fajaa d’Ovelha. 
Suffruticose altogether smooth and scentless, branches slender 
round gr. leafy ; 1. lanceolate with the edges waved or repand ; 
cymes shortly pedunculate 1-3-fld., fl. drooping umbellate, fr. 
erect mostly solitary. — Linn. Sp. 263; Lam. 111. no. 2311, 
Diet. iv. 280 ; Brot. i. 283 ; Pers. i. 223 ; Ait. Hort. Kew. 
(ed. 2) i. 396: Dun. Hist. Sol. 150; Bucli 193. no. 189; 
Spr. i. 684 ; WB. iii. 122 ; Seub. Fl. Az. 38 ; Dun. in DC. 
xiii. 152; Wats, in Godm. Nat. Hist, of Az. 198. Amomum 
Plinii Ger. Herb. (ed. 1) 289. S. fruticosum bacciferum 
Moris. Hist. iii. 525. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 2, cc. Roadsides, 
rocky stony banks and shady spots in chestnut woods, but no- 
where remote from cultivated ground or cottages; at the 
Mount, S. Martinho (1st ravine to the westward), Calheta, 
Fajaa d’Ovelha, &c. At all seasons. — An elegant little willow- 
like shr. 2-3 ft. high, in its slender graceful virgate branches 
and narrow-lanceolate 1. reminding one of Salix. Branches 
simple subelongate thickly leafy remotely subdivided at acute 
angles, dark gr. upwards, ash-coloured below. L. dark full gr. 
paler beneath with prominent midrib and side-nerves, mem- 
branous not deciduous, 2-4 in. long, f broad, attenuate at 
both ends shortly petiolate, their margins finely waved or re- 
pand, not sinuate. Ped. far supraaxillary very short erecto- 
patent, the lower 1 or 2-, the upper mostly 3-fld. Pedic. 
drooping in fl., erect in fr., 2-4 lines long. Fl. w. larger than 
in S. nigrum L., subconspicuous. Antli. bright or. large oblong 
equal. Base of cal. pentagonal, lobes linear-lanceolate not re- 
flexed. Berry opake bright reddish or. or red-lead colour (not 
y.) smooth and shining perfectly globose, 5 or 6 lines in diam., 
erect hard or firm, somewhat juicy and insipid father than di- 
stinctly nauseous, never eaten. Seeds rather large roundish 
flattened waved shining yellowish or dirty w., very obscurely 
reticulato-punctate. 
Though found in Mad. by Sloane as early as 1687, and re- 
corded, on his authority, by Morison 1. c. in 1699 as growing 
there spontaneously, this pi. is probably of S. American origin. 
