SOLA'NUM ETUBERO'SUM. 
TUBERLESS SOLANUM. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
SOLANACEjE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Chili. 
1 foot. 
July, Oct. 
Perennial. 
in 1829. 
No. 625. 
The medicinal qualities of some of the plants 
which belong to this genus, gave occasion for the 
use of the name Solauum, from the Latin solor, to 
assuage pain. The species dulcamara, was held in 
considerable estimation by ancient practitioners of 
the healing art, but its use is now very limited. See 
fol. 109. 
This plant bears some resemblance to the Sola- 
num tuberosum, or potatoe, but its much more com- 
pact clusters of fine large purple flowers, recom- 
mend it as a desirable border ornament, without the 
fear of its being looked on with contempt, for its 
alliance with a subject so plebeian as the potatoe. 
Its smooth stems too, and tuberless roots sustain- 
ing a perennial character, remove it still further 
from our well-known vegetable. The Potatoe, like 
our present plant, is indigenous to South America, 
a country not know n to us three centuries and a half 
ago, although we owe to it so many of the necessa- 
ries and luxuries of life. It is impossible to glance at 
this fact without being impressed with the impor- 
tance of pursuing our researches in those parts of 
the globe which are at present unexplored. We find 
157 Bot. Reg. 1712. 
Class. 
PENTANDRIA. 
