SOLANDRA. 
103 
seeing that on one side Dunal 1. c. describes the fr. in L. europceum 
L, as “ ovato-globose,” and considering on the other hand the 
insufficiency of 3 or 4 berries of the Mad. pi. from one bush only 
to establish as a constant character their ovoidal shape, espe- 
cially in the face of their being reported by the country people 
in Mad. to be “round like a ball, not egg-shaped.’’ 
In the Canaries I met with and instantly recognized, precisely 
this Mad. Lycium in Palma only, whence also spec, from F. 
Bourgeau exist in BH. and HH. no. 924, under the name of L. 
europceum L. In the other islands and especially in Lanzarote 
and Fuerte Ventura occurred another sp. with the same stiff 
thorny habit but with erect ovate-acute or elliptic orange- 
coloured fr., which at Aria in Lanzarote, where it abounds down 
the ravine below the town, is eaten by the children under the 
name of Romame. Is not L. ofrum Beichenb. in WB. iii. 285 
a compound of this Lanz. pi. with the fr. of true L. afrum L. 
from elsewhere P I at least never met with the true L. afrum 
(Mich. 224, t. 105. f. 2) in any one of the Can. islands ; and if 
this common and abundant Lanzarotan and Fuerte-Venturan 
sp. be not intended by the L. afrum Beich. in WB., it is not 
otherwise recorded in the Phytogr. Can. It may be called, if 
previously undescribed, L. canariensc. 
ttfTribe II. Solandreoe. 
fff 2. SOLANDRA Sw. 
ttfl- S. MACRANTIIA Dim. 
Wholly smooth ; st. and branches woody trailing sarmentose ; 
young shoots virgate or arcuato-virgate elongate ; 1. coriaceous 
smooth elliptic-oblong and acute or obtuse and mueronate, 
cuneate at the base, shining dark gr. ; ff. terminal subsolitary 
nearly sessile ; cor. 5-lobed ; anth. erect atropurpureous within ; 
stigma simply globoso-capitate ; “ berry acuminate pale not red 
within.” — Dun. in DC. xiii. 1 . 533. S. yrandifiora BM. 1 . 1874 et 
Hortul. plur. (nec Sw. nec Jacq. &c. sec. Dun. 1. c.). S. gran- 
dijlora Griseb. W. I. FI. 433 (partly). Datura sarmentosa [3 
Lam. 111. no. 2295; Diet. vii. 463. — Shr. per. evergreen Mad. 
reg. 1, cult. r. In gardens about Funchal, running over walls 
or trained (as formerly at the Palmeira) as a border-fence; 
growing and flowering luxuriantly but never fruiting. May- 
Sept. — A loosely rampant shr. with stout woody st., trailing or 
