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64. SOLAXACEJE. 
lieved by the providential introduction at the moment and ex- 
tended cultivation of the Demerara Batata ( B . edulis (Thunh.) 
subvar.). The disease has now however (1871) almost wholly 
disappeared. 
S. insigne Lowe in Journ. Hort. Soc. i. 178 (Lond. 1867), intro- 
duced by myself about 10 years ago from the Canary Islands, 
but doubtless of South-American origin, occurs already not 
unfrequently in cottage gardens. It is a small tr. or arbo- 
rescent shr. about the size of Brngmansia suaveolens (Willd.), 
with handsome shining foliage (the young 1. claret-coloured), 
moderately large very fragrant pale pinkish-w. or blush-w. fl. 
in short drooping compound rac. or racemose forked cymes 
and fine orange-coloured fr. (single or several in each racemose 
cyme), in Tenerife the size and shape of a hen’s egg, but in 
Mad. smaller narrower and more pointed at each end, said to 
be eatable raw and serviceable in cookery like Tomatos ( Lyco - 
persicum esculcntum L.). Its diagnosis is as follows: — 
§ Melon gena Dun. 
S. insigne Lowe. Subarboreum inerme omnino glabrum ; fol. 
oblongo-ovatis ovatisve subobliquis subacuminatis basi cor- 
datis integris, utrinque nudis ; cymis dichotomo-racemosis, 
fr. magno ovoideo v. ellipsoideo aurantiaco nitente glabro. — 
Folia lucida intensius sublurido-viridia, juniora atro-sangui- 
neo-purpurea v. vinoso-violascentia, in pi. junioribus luxuri- 
antibus maxima. In omnibus partibus pi. amat violascere. 
tf3. Lycopersictjm Tourn. 
tfl* L. vtjlgare Lowe. Tomato. T ornate. 
Bank-smelling subviscid subglandularly hispid-villous; 1. 
hispidly pubescent or substrigose odd-pinnatisect, lfts. oblong- 
ovate irregularly inciso-toothed veiny-rugose very unequal at 
the base, 8 or 4 pair larger petiolate, the intermediate minute 
cordate entire petiolulate ; cymes stalked sparsely racemose not 
many-fkl., ped. supraaxillary erecto-patent, pedic. subelongate 
articulate at or above the middle, ebracteate; rac. and fl. sub- 
nutant ; berries drooping opake, scarlet, red or y. — L. esculcntum 
and L. pyriforme Spr. i. 677. L. Humboldtii , pyriforme, cerasi- 
forme and esculcntum Dun. — llerb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2, cc; 
‘ND. *. Varr. 
a. cerasiforme ; rac. simple; fr. evenly globose size of a small 
cherry or marble scarlet, red or orange-y. — L. cerasiforme Dun. 
Hist. Sol. 118, t. 8, B (fr.) ; Dun. in DO. xiii. 1. 20; Webb 
Spic. Gorg. 102; J. A. Schxn. Fl. Verd. 288. u L. Qaleni Mill. 
Diet.” (Dun.). L. Humboldtii Dun. Hist. Sol. 112; WB. iii. ! 
282; Dun. in I)C. xiii. 1. 25; Griseb. W. 1. Fl. 430. Sol. ly - 
