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Madagascar Potato. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.—Nar. Onp- SOLANE A. bal 
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Gen. Cuar.—Cal. 5-1 O-partitus. Cor, subrotata, 4—1 0-fidus Antherce cor con- 
niventes apice poro gemino dehiscentes. Bacca 2-8-4 locularis, aes 
tis “eae Semina glabra. ; 
Solanum Angee ; frutescens ubique stellato-tomentosum parce acu- 
leatum, foliis ; geminis ovatis angulato-lobatis, racemis parvis, calyci- 
bus campanulatis 5-dentatis inermibus. _ a. 
Solanum Anguivi, ‘Lam. a v.iv, p. 304. —I. Gaps! Nod 2895. —Dvuvat, 
Solan. p. 2277. Y 
A low frutescent shrub, with aeeabgling branches, tomentose, as is every 
other part of the plant, with short stellated pubescence: there are like- 
wise a few short, curved, orange-coloured aculei upon the stems andes 
_petiols, and occasionally straight ones upon the nerves of the leaf. 
Leaves distantly placed, springing in pairs from the same point, 3-4 or — 
5 inches long, ovate, acute, angulato-lobate, with generally 2 very pro- 
minent, more or less acy, angles c on eh ay, upon rather short foot- 
- stalks. 
Racemes axillary, springing alternately about pi way boeken each pair 
of leaves, short, subcorymbose, of 6-8 rather small white flowers. Ca- 
lyx small, campanulate, 5-toothed, green. Corolla pubescent externally, 
5-partite, the segments reflexed. Stamens 5, equal. Filaments very 
short ; Anthers large, erect, connivent, each with two pores at the ex- 
tremity. Pista: Germen spherical, poe — i much longer than — 
stamens; Stigma obtuse. 
Gathered in the Island of Madagascar (where it was first 
discovered by COoMMERSON) by Messrs HELsINGER and 
Boser, and dried specimens have been communicated to me, 
along with many other valuable plants of that country, by Mr — 
TrvFair. The same gentleman sent seeds to Mr Barcuay, 
who, with his usual liberality, has made us partakers of this 
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