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64. SOLANACEiE. 
ped. and cal. becoming gr. as the fl. advance. Cal. shortly 
tubular-cylindric or shallow tumbler-shaped, neither attenuate 
at the base nor stipitate, 2 lines long, 1 broad, tomentulose or 
mealy -puberulous, herbaceous somewhat tieshy full gr. often 
speckled or tinged with blackish purple on the upperside, ob- 
soletely or shallowly and bluntly erosulo-5-4-toothed or cre- 
nulate, the teeth woolly at the edges. Cor. (including the 
limb) o or 6 times the length of the cal., entirely smooth, yel- 
lowish gr. outside sometimes speckled or tinged on the upper- 
side with blackish purple, hypocrateriform ; tube long slender 
filiform-cylindric scarcely at all infundibuliform or clavate but 
with a slight strumous swelling at top (corresponding with the 
position of the anth.) and a constriction close above it at the 
base of the limb ; 8 lines long from base of cal., f-1 line broad 
at top of cal. and 1-1 j broad at its swollen part at top ; limb 
5-partite or now and then cruciately 4-partite, lobes when flatly 
or horizontally expanded obtuse or subobtuse oval or broadly 
ovate, appearing acute and narrow-linear i. e. half a line broad 
only from the inflexion or reflexion of their margins, 2^-3 lines 
long, 1|-1| broad, erect and closed by day, reflexed by night; 
each lobe bisulcate inside, bicarinate outside, with broad pale 
gr. margins which are inflexed by day, spreading or revolute 
by night, very finely and minutely velvety-pubescent and to- 
mentuloso-ciliolulate, the whole inside of cor. otherwise smooth 
and pale whitish gr. or greenish primrose-colour ; diam. of ex- 
panded limb | in. Stam. included in tube, the anth. reaching ' 
to its top or edge of mouth and very nearly sessile on its sides, 
small subglobosely oval or ovate, erect, at first ochraceous-y., 
then Indian-red or brown, their fil. slender filiform and entirely 
smooth throughout; pale, adnate to cor.-tube very nearly or 
almost quite their whole length, without the least trace of a 
tooth at the origin of their very short free part at top or any- 
where; pollen greyish w. Stigma full gr. clavato-capitate 
bilobed by a transverse groove, just overtopping the anth. ; 
style smooth pale filiform. Ov. smooth ovoidal like an acorn, 
blunt, obsoletely 4 or 5-lobed at top, 2-celled, many-seeded, 
the upper half black or atro-purpureous, the lower gr. and 
adherent to the cal. -tube ; hypogynous ring or nectary halfway 
down the ov. indistinct and obsolete, obscurely tumid and cre- 
nulate. Fr. never produced in Mad., the whole fl. falling off 
with ov. and cal. ; but described by Grisebach 1. c. as u ovoid, 
blue,” shortly tapering at the base, and by Lam. 1. c. as u a 
berry of the shape but half the size of an olive, nearly black 
with blackish- violet juice, containing in two distinct cells about 
4 large oblong seeds.” 
This differs from C. noctumum L. in its shortly peduncled 
short spike-like contracted or condensed abbreviate cymes 
