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PHYSALIS ANGULATA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 183; SafFord 353. 
G. E. S. 336, McGregor 508, locally known as tomate chaca. 
Widely distributed in the tropics of both hemispheres, probably a native 
of tropical America. 
Mr. SafFord records Physalis minima Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 183, from 
Guam (p. 353), under the same native name as indicated on the specimens 
I have referred to P. angulata Linn. I have seen no Guam material that 
I would refer to P. minima Linn., which is a very pubescent plant. I sus- 
pect that Mr. Safford’s Physalis angulata is the species I refer to P. lancei- 
folia, and his P. minima is the species I refer to P. angulata. 
SO L A N U M Linnaeus 
SOLAN U M NIGRUM Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 186. 
G. E. S. Jf38. 
Temperate and tropical regions of both hemispheres. 
SOLANUM MELONGENA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 186; SafFord 375. 
G. E. S. 31, locally known as berenghenas, commonly cultivated. 
Cultivated in all warm countries. 
SOLANUM GUAMENSE sp. nov. 
Frutex vel suffrutex erectus, ramosus, inerme, stellato-tomen- 
tosus ; foliis valde inaequalibus, ovatis ari elliptico-ovatis, integris 
vel obscure repandis, obtusis vel acutis, minoribus 1 ad 3 cm 
longis, majoribus 4.5 ad 12 cm longis; inflorescentiis axillaribus 
extra-axillaribusque, circiter 4 cm longis, paucifloris, dichotomis, 
floribus 5-meris circiter 12 mm diametro, pedicellatis ; fructibus 
carnosis, globosis, glabris, circiter 6 mm diametro. 
An erect shrub or undershrub, or at least suffrutescent, 
branched, the branches terete, 3 to 4 mm in diameter, dark- 
colored when dry, older ones glabrous, the internodes short, the 
younger ones densely stellate-pubescent with straw-colored or 
grayish indumentum. Leaves exceedingly variable in size, al- 
ternate or the small ones subfasciculate, chartaceous, in general 
ovate to elliptic-ovate, uniformly and rather densely stellate- 
pubescent on the lower surface, less densely pubescent on the 
upper surface, the indumentum pale or straw-colored, the apex 
blunt or acute, the margins entire or in the larger leaves ob- 
scurely repand, the base broadly rounded to somewhat acute, 
usually slightly inequilateral ; larger leaves 5.4 to 12 cm long, 3.5 
to 8 cm wide, the lateral nerves 4 to 6 on each side of the midrib, 
distinct, laxly anastomosing, the petioles stellate-pubescent, 1 
to 3.5 cm long; smaller leaves 1 to 3 cm long and about as wide. 
Inflorescence axillary and extra-axillary, stellate-tomentose, 
cymose, rather lax, 3 to 4 cm long, dichotomous, rather many- 
flowered. Flowers 5-merous. Calyx funnel-shapped, 2.5 mm 
long and about as wide at the throat, pubescent, the teeth 
