thick, not punctured, spathulately obovate, tapered into a 
kind of petiole, connected by a joint with the branch, finely 
chagreened, according to Labillardiére sometimes dentate ; 
in the specimen we saw none exceeded an inch in length. 
Flowers axillary, chiefly solitary, pedicles mounted by a 
joint upon thicker peduncles; bractes small, deciduous. 
Calyx green, half-fivecleft, tube narrow, pentangular, seg- 
ments patent, subulate, shorter than the tube and faux of 
the corolla. Corolla palish yellow, monopetalous, funnel- 
formly radiate: tube very short: faux broadly cupular, va- 
riegated by close brown vertical stripes within: limb 
sinuately sixparted, stellate, twice the length of the faux, 
segments linear-lanceolate, convex, margin revolute. Fila- 
ments much shorter than the faux, villous at the base, ru- 
diment of the fifth villous: anthers yellow, round, didymous. 
Style longer than stamens, white, inclined, filiform, con- 
tinuous with the pyramidal germen; stigma capitate, slant- 
ing, villous, transversely bifid with unequal lobes. 
Although Mr. Brown has assorted this genus to the 
Solanew, he does not appear to think that tribe its final 
destination. 
; — 
a Calyx. 6 Corolla dissected vertically. c Pistil. 
