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64 . SOLANACEJE. 
The fresh bruised 1. are applied by the country-people fre- 
quently to boils or tumours. 
The small-fruited var. microcarpum Pers. 1. c. (S. micro- 
carpurn Yahl : Dun. Hist. 149, DC. xiii. 153) collected in Tene- 
rife by Bourgeau (not Webb), has not occurred in Mad. The 
fr. is said to be little larger than a pepper corn. In the Mad. 
pi. it is about the size of a small cherry. 
§ 3. AstrocJiUena Lowe. Shr. or subarborescent. L. simple 
large entire clothed like the young shoots and fl.-buds 
with stellate pubescence mostly floccoso- or furfuraceo- 
tomentose. FI. middle-sized v.-blue lilac or w. Berries 
mostly the size of a cherry (rarely of a pea) 5 or 6 lines 
in diam. mostly globose rarely ovate, greenish y. or 
ocliraceous, sometimes miniaceous, rarely black or w. 
tfo. S. AURICULATUM Ait. 
Subarborescent erect stragglingly fork-branched stellato- 
tomentose ; 1. large elliptic or ovate-oblong acuminate attenuate 
at the base into the petiole floccoso-woolly glabrescent, petioles 
pseudo-stipulate at the base in the young shoots by the de- 
velopment of axillary auriculiform ultimately abortive or evan- 
escent and caducous 1. ; cymes stalked 2-3-chotomous at first 
terminal congested, presently lateral spreading broad ample ; 
fl. and fr. subsessile on short thick pedicels or shortly pedicelled, 
erect; fi. v.-blue; berries at first fioccoso-furfuraceous, finally 
glabrescent dull ocliraceous or miniaceous globose 4-6 lines in 
diam. — Ait. Hort. Ixew. i. (ed 1) 249, (ed. 2) 396; Lam. 111. 
no. 2307, Diet. iv. 270; Pers. i. 221 ; Dun. Ilist. Sol. 166; Spr. 
i. 682; DC. xiii. 1. 115. — Subarb. per. Mad. reg. 1, r. Here and 
there in vineyards and gardens above Funchal chiefly along 
the Levada de S ta Luzia below the Palmeira growing sponta- 
neously; perfectly naturalized on the sea-cliffs about a mile 
out of Funchal to the eastward beyond the 1st ravine of the 
Louros or Lazaretto. Fl. and fr. at all seasons. — A somewhat 
stragglingly or remotely and fiauntingly subdicliotomously 
branched small tr. or shr. 6-12 ft. high, the st. 2-3 in. in diam., 
branches as thick as the little finger, somewhat brittle, leafy 
w. and woolly upwards, velvety and dull olive-gr. downwards, 
naked woody and pale asli-col. like the st. below. Foliage large 
and handsome somewhat dull but not distinctlv hoarv gr. Pe- 
tioles 1-2 in. long. L. 6-18 in. long, 3-6 in. wide, thickish and 
softly velvety, very flaccid and fast withering, dull greyish-gr., 
thinly stellato-velvetv or subglabrescent and minutely (through 
the lens) shagreened or pustulate above, distinctly paler or 
whilst young whitish and densely stellato-tomentose beneath ; 
