Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Solanaceae
Solanaceae
Description:
Species Description - A shrub 3 m. high or less, glabrous throughout, the bark light gray. Leaves ovate to ovate-elliptic, pale green on both sides, but slightly darker green above than beneath, 5-10 cm. long, 5 cm. wide or less, firm in texture, acute at both ends, or the apex obtusish, faintly 7-9-vcined on each side of the mid-vein; petioles slender, 1-1.5 cm. long; cymes axillary, few-several-flowered, their peduncles much shorter than the petioles; pedicels 1.5-3 mm. long; calyx oblong-campanulate in flower, 4 mm. long, its teeth triangular-lanceolate, 1.5 mm. long; corolla-tube greenish yellow, 9-13 mm. long, narrowly obconic, its lobes lanceolate, acuminate, purplish, 4-5 mm. long, white-lanose within; stamens inserted on the tube of the corolla just below the lobes, the free part of the filament scarcely longer than the anther; berry blue-black, shining, obovoid, about 12 mm. long, 5-6 mm. thick; fruiting calyx broadly obconic, loosely enclosing the narrowed base of the berry.
Species Description - A shrub 3 m. high or less, glabrous throughout, the bark light gray. Leaves ovate to ovate-elliptic, pale green on both sides, but slightly darker green above than beneath, 5-10 cm. long, 5 cm. wide or less, firm in texture, acute at both ends, or the apex obtusish, faintly 7-9-vcined on each side of the mid-vein; petioles slender, 1-1.5 cm. long; cymes axillary, few-several-flowered, their peduncles much shorter than the petioles; pedicels 1.5-3 mm. long; calyx oblong-campanulate in flower, 4 mm. long, its teeth triangular-lanceolate, 1.5 mm. long; corolla-tube greenish yellow, 9-13 mm. long, narrowly obconic, its lobes lanceolate, acuminate, purplish, 4-5 mm. long, white-lanose within; stamens inserted on the tube of the corolla just below the lobes, the free part of the filament scarcely longer than the anther; berry blue-black, shining, obovoid, about 12 mm. long, 5-6 mm. thick; fruiting calyx broadly obconic, loosely enclosing the narrowed base of the berry.
Discussion:
Coppices, savannas and scrub-lands, Great Bahama and Abaco to Andros, Cat Island and Long Island : Cuban Cays. Referred by Grisebach, Dolley, Mrs. Northrop and Hitchcock to Oestrum pallidum Lam. ; recorded by Coker as Solanum havunense Jacq. and by Schoepf as Cestrum vespertinum. Bahama Cestrum.
Distribution:
Grand Bahama Bahamas South America| Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Andros Island Bahamas South America| Long Island Bahamas South America|
Grand Bahama Bahamas South America| Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Andros Island Bahamas South America| Long Island Bahamas South America|