330 SOL 
south coast of the island of Lucon. Lat. 13. 22. N. long. 
12. 46. E. 
SOLA, La. See Pylstart. 
To SO'LACE, v. a. [solasier, old French; solazzare, 
Italian; solatium , Latin.] To comfort; to cheer; to 
amuse. 
The birds with song 
Solac'd the woods. Milton, 
To SO'LACE, v. n. To take comfort; to be recreated. 
Obsolete. 
One poor and loving child, 
But one thing to rejoice and solace in, 
And cruel death hath catch’d it from my sight. Shakspeare. 
SO'LACE, s. [solas, old Fr.] Comfort; pleasure; 
alleviation; that which gives comfort or pleasure; recreation; 
amusement. 
Therein sat a lady fresh and fair, 
Making sweet solace to herself alone; 
Sometimes she sung as loud as lark in air. 
Sometimes she laugh’d, that nigh her breath was gone. 
Spenser . 
SOLA'CIOUS, adj. [solacieux, old Fr.] Affording 
comfort, recreation, or amusement. This is an old English 
word, which Cotgrave and Sherwood also have noticed.— 
Solacyouse pastymes, ydelnesse, and crueltie. Bale. 
SOLAN, a county of Central Africa, on the northern 
bank of the Niger, between Tombuctoo and Cassina.. It 
was described to Horneman, as one of those composing the 
extensive country of Haoussa or Houssa; but no particulars 
are known respecting it. 
SO'LAND-GOOSE. See Solund-goose. 
SOLA'NDER, s. [souldandres , French.] A disease in 
horses. 
SOLANDER’S ISLAND, an island in the Pacific Ocean, 
pear the south coast of New Zealand, discovered by Captain 
Cook in the year 1770. It is nothing but a barren rock, 
about a mile in circuit, remarkably high, and lies full five 
leagues distant from the main. This island he named after 
Dr. Solauder. The shore of the main lies nearest east-by- 
south and west-by-north, and forms a large open bay, in 
which there is no appearance of any harbour, or shelter for 
shipping against south-west and southerly winds. The sur¬ 
face of the country is broken into craggy hills, of a great 
height, on the summits of which are some patches of 
snow. It is not, however, wholly barren, for wood was seen 
not only in the valleys, but upon the highest ground, yet no 
appearance of its being inhabited. Lat. 46. 31. S. long. 
192. 49. W. 
SOLANDRA [so named by the younger Linnaeus, in 
honour of Daniel Charles Solander, a Swede], in Botany, a 
genus of the class pentandria, order monogynia.—Generic 
Character. Calyx: perianth one-leafed, large, angular, per¬ 
manent, three-cleft or five-cleft: segments lanceolate, erect. 
Corolla one petalled, funnel-form, very large: tube bell¬ 
shaped, ventricose, a little shorter than the calyx: border 
five-cleft; segments roundish, waved, patulous. Stamina: 
filaments five, filiform, length of the tube, ascending at the 
top. Anthers oblong, versatile. Pistil : germ superior, oval. 
Style filiform, longer than the stamens, bent in. Stigma ob¬ 
tuse, bifid; segments ovate. Pericarp: berry oval, conical 
at top, smooth, four-celled. Seeds very numerous, oblong, 
nestling. —Essential Character. Calyx bursting. Corolla 
clavate-funnel-form, very large. Berry four-celled, many- 
seeded. 
Solandra grandiflora, or great-flowered Solandra.—This 
is a small tree from twelve to twenty feet high, with a branch¬ 
ing trunk, and a cloven ash-coloured bark, green within. 
The wood is spongy. The branches are loose, bent down, 
divaricating, very long. The leaves are in clusters towards 
the ends of the branchlets, obovate-oblong, acute, entire, 
smooth, thickish, from three to seven inches in length, on 
round smooth petioles, five times shorter than the leaves. 
Flowers terminating, subsessile, subsolitary, very large. Pe- 
SOL 
duncles very short, thick, round, smooth, one-flowered 
Calyx from one to three inches long, subquinquefid, as the 
fruit ripens bursting to the base into three or five segments. 
Seeds black. The very handsome sweet flowers appear in 
the months of January and February. The fruit ripens in 
August, and is of a sweet subacid flavour.—Native of Ja¬ 
maica. 
SOLANE2E, the 41st natural order in Jussieu’s system, 
the 8th of his 8th class. It is thus named from the Night¬ 
shade, which is one of the tribe, and the order is nearly 
equivalent to the Linneean Lurid.® : see that article. 
SOLANO, a small town of Spain, in La Mancha, on the 
river Azuer. Population 1300 ; 103 miles south-by-east of 
Madrid. 
SOLANO, a small island near the coast of Peru. Lat. 12. 
20. S. 
SOLANO, a river of Guatimala, in the province of Costa 
Rica, which runs west, and enters the Pacific Ocean. 
SOLANOS, in Meteorology, a name given to monsoon 
winds, in the vicinity of the Persian Gulf, and in the interior 
of Africa. 
SOLANTO, a small sea-port of Sicily, in the district 
called the Val di Mazzara. 
SOLANUM [of Pliny], in Botany, a genus of the class 
pentandria, order monogyfiia, natural order of lurid®, 
solane® (Juss.). —Generic Character. Calyx: perianth 
one-leafed, half five-cleft, erect, acute, permanent. Corolla 
one-petalled, wheel-shaped : tube very short: border large, 
half-five-cleft, from reflex flat, plaited. Stamina: filaments 
five, awl-shaped, very small. Anthers oblong, converging, 
subcoalescent, opening at the top by two pores. Pistil: 
germ roundish. Style filiform, longer than the stamens. 
Stigma blunt. Pericarp: berry roundish, smooth, dotted at 
the top, two-celled, with a convex fleshy receptacle on each 
side. Seeds very many, roundish, nestling .—Essential 
Character. Corolla wheel-shaped. Anthers subcoalescent, 
opening at top. Berry two-celled. 
I.—Unarmed. 
1. Solanum laurifolium, or bay-leaved nightshade.—This 
is an unarmed tree. Leaves a span long, quite entire, brown. 
Panicle solitary, dichotomous, composed of one-ranked ra¬ 
cemes. Berries black.—Native of South America, in large 
woods. 
2. Solanum verbascifolium, or mullein-leaved nightshade. 
—Stem shrubby; leaves ovate, tomentose, entire ; corymbs 
bifid, terminating. Flowers white, inodorous.—Native of 
America. 
3. Solanum auriculatum, or ear-leaved nightshade.— 
Shrubby; leaves ovate, acuminate, tomentose, entire; sti¬ 
pules cordate; corymbs bifid, terminating. This is very 
like the preceding.—Native of the islands of Madagascar, 
Mauritius and Bourbon. 
4. Solanum pubescens, or pubescent nightshade.-—Stem 
shrubby; leaves ovate, decreasing at the base, quite entire, 
pubescent; racemes subumbelled, axillary.-—Native of the 
East Indies. 
5. Solanum Bombense, or Tierra Bomba nightshade.— 
Stem frutescent; leaves oval, attenuated at both ends, quite 
entire; racemes cymed.—Found in the island of Tierra 
Bomba, near Carthagena, in America. 
6. Solanum pseudo-capsicum. Shrubby nightshade, or 
winter cherry.—Stem shrubby; leaves lanceolate, repand; 
umbels sessile.—It is a native of the island of Madeira, 
7. Solanum microcarpum, or small-fruited nightshade.— 
Stem shrubby; leaves ovate-lanceolate; umbels lateral, pe- 
duncled.—Native of Egypt. 
8. Solanum terminate, or eud-flowering nightshade.— 
Frutescent; leaves lanceolate-ovate, mostly entire, hairy; 
umbels terminating.—Native of Arabia Felix. 
9. Solanum pauciflorum, or few-flowered nightshade.— 
Leaves ovate, quite entire; branches and calyxes ten-toothed, 
tomentose; peduncles axillary, in pairs, one-flowered.— 
Native of the island of Martinique. 
10. Solanum diphyllum, or two-leaved nightshade.—Stem 
shrubby ; 
