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TAB. 4138

SOLANUM MACRANTHUM. Large-flowered Nightshade.

Nat. Ord. SOLANEÆ.-PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. SOLANUM. (Vide supra TAB. 3954.) Racemes axillary, much shorter than the leaves, subcymose, densely woolly and aculeated. Pedicels as long as the calyx. Calyx large; tube broad, almost hemispherical, woolly and aculeated; limb of five, ovate, acute, spreading, downy seg- ments. Corolla very large, sometimes three inches across, pale bluish-purple, with darker dashes and pale lines, veiny. Stamens nearly sessile, five, equal, the anthers large, uniting in a broad cone, and each opening by two pores at the apex. Style a little longer than the stamens: Stigma two-lobed. Thrifty Whiskers SOLANUM macranthum; caule arboreo aculeato, ramis lanatis, foliis amplis late ovatis acuminatis profunde angulato-lobatis basi attenuatis sub- sessilibus utrinque lanatis subtus præcipue aculeatis, racemis folio multoties brevioribus subcymosis, pedicellis calycibusque 5-fidis lanatis aculeatis, corolla ampla venosa. SOLANUM macranthum. Dun. Syn. Solan. p. 43. Veget. 4. p. 650. Spr. Syst. Veget. 1. p. 689. v. 3. p. 88. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Walp. Repert. Bot. A native of Brazil, and has been long cultivated in the old stove of the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, where, planted in the border, it has attained to the height of the roof. In such a situation, it really makes a very handsome appearance, with its ample foliage, and its large pale lilac- coloured flowers, which, drooping as they do from the upper branches, are seen to great advantage from below. To those cultivators who have not space to allow its growing thus freely, cuttings may be recommended, which strike freely, and flower almost as soon as struck.-It is n. 800 of Mr. Gardner's Brazilian collection.

Botanical Description Arborescent, and, with us, attaining a height of

twelve or fourteen feet; much more, probably, in its native country. Branches mostly at the top, spreading; young ones densely clothed with rusty green wool, and beset with copious, very rigid aculei. Leaves ample, alternate, on very short petioles, almost sessile, broadly ovato-acuminate, attenuated at the base, the margins deeply angulato-lobate, the lobes acute, the surface strongly marked with copious reticulated veins, downy above, more so, almost woolly beneath; the hairs stellate and stipitate, as at f. 1, the veins on both sides prickly, the aculei larger and stronger below, especially on the costa. VOL. I. C

Figures

Fig. 1. Hairs-magnified. 2.12 22 .000 usios