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SOLANUM amazonium. 
New purple shrubby Nightshade. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
~SOLANUM. Cal. 1-phyllus, 4-15-dentatus lobatusve, persistens, 
swpé post*efflorescentiamn crescens, Cor. (infera) 1-petala, rotata; tubus 
brevis ; limbus magnus, plicatus, 5-angulatus lobatusve, interdum 4-6-lo- 
batus, patens, (modo irregularis). Stam. aliquandd 4-6: jil. subulata, 
minima, interdim inequalia: anth. oblong, approximate distantesve, 
sepils quales, interdim inequales, apice poris 2 dehiscentes. Stylus 
filiformis, rectus v. deflexus, in flordbus fertilibus longior staminibus, in 
Jl. sterilibus subequans filamenta: stigma obtusum, subsimplex, aut 
2-3-4-fidum. Bacca subrotunda, ovata, oblonga, glabra, apice puncto 
notata, 2-3-5-loc.: placenta carnosa, tonvexa, aut convexo-concava 
nunc 4 dissepimento non discreta, nunc ope lamina intermedi longi- 
tudinalis dissepimento utrinque ad axem affixa: sem. plurima, subro- 
tunda, ovata, spits compressa, margine cincta, glabra aut minutissimé 
iouth pulpa molli diaphana spissimé convoluta. Dunal solan. 
110. t : f Po ‘ 
Caulis herbaceus aut frutescens, inermis aut aculeatus, aut rard spi- 
nosus. Folia simplicia, integra, lobata, decomposituque, alterna, in 
plurimis geminata, rard ternata. Pedunculi solitarii-aut plures, sim- 
plices aut multifidi, axillares aut extra-axillares, oppositifolii aut sparse 
aut terminales.  Pedicelli Souant tuberosi sub flore articulati. Fructus 
Se eee magnus, subd-loc.  Huic fios 6-9-divisus. © Dunal,: ubi 
supra. 2-14 ¢- 
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Div. Aculeata. oy" 
Sub-div. Corollis 5+fidis, baccis calyce aucto & aculeato tectis. 
$. amazonium, fruticosum, polygamum, tridynamum, tomentosum, sub- 
aculeatum : foliis oblongo-ovatis, repandis v. sinuato-lobatis; calycibus 
hermaphroditis solis aculeatis ; flore irregulari, subinequali. : 
Frutex 3-4-pedalis, erectus, pilis brevibus stipitato-stellatis densis his- 
idiusculis canescens. Caulis inermis, teres, fléxuosus, dichotomo-ramosus. 
Folia remote alterna, rariits 2-3 approximata, petiolata, patentia, elongate 
ovata, lobis lateralibus sepé obsolescentibus nunquam profundis obtusissimis 
terminali longiis attenuate, bast s@pius inequalia, a supino plerimque flavi- 
cantia ; inferiora majora in nervis § petiolis sparsim aculeata, Dacituaine haud 
raro sesunciali, Racemi plurimi, extraazillares, multiflori, terminales & late- 
rales, internodiales, Joliis opposito-alternantes, ebracteati, paientes, revoluto- 
evolvendi (ac Heiorropit), disticho-secundi; pedicelli 1-flori, erecti, flore 
breviores. Flos primarius cujusque racémi sop hermaphroditus, cetert 
masculi, Cal. corolld duplo v. magis brevior, 5-fidus, laciniis lineari-subu- 
latis, und distantiore s in ermaph. cum pedicello echinatus, (fructu simul eam 
crescens? ); in mare inermis atque cadens cum corolla. Cor. ampla, 2 uncias 
Jere transversa, sinuato-quinquefida (in masculis plurimitm profundits ), vio- 
-lacea cum stella media flava radiis externis 5 tomentosis respondente ; lacinie 
ovato-lanceolate, summam mediam versus obliquate, infime 2 sublongiores 
divaricatiores. Anth. flaye, subsessiles, contigue, dectinate ; in maribus 
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