Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. Flora Borinqueña.
Britton, Nathaniel L. Flora Borinqueña.
Family:
Solanaceae
Solanaceae
Description:
Species Description - This attractive flowering vine was introduced into English greenhouses by Lord Seaforth, from the West Indies, about the year 1800, and was named in his honor. In Porto Rico it grows in thickets and woodlands at lower and middle elevations, and has been observed on Vieques Island; its range extends throughout the West Indies, except the Bahama Islands, and widely in continental tropical America. The vine is frequently planted for ornament; the Spanish name Falsa Belladonna is also used. Solanum is a Linnaean genus with a very large number of species, estimated as, perhaps, 900, including herbs, vines, shrubs, and trees, unarmed, or prickly. The name is recorded as derived from solamen, quieting. Their leaves are various, their flowers clustered. The calyx is usually 5-toothed, or 5-cleft; the rotate corolla is 5-angled, or 5-lobed, with a very short tube; the 5 stamens, borne on the throat of the corolla, have short filaments, the long anthers connivent; the usually 2-celled ovary contains many ovules. The fruit is a many-seeded berry, the calyx persistent at its base, or partly enclosing it. Solanum Seaforthianum is a slender, unarmed, smooth, or sparingly hairy vine, from 1 to 6 meters long, its twigs angular. The thin, slender-stalked leaves are variously lobed, divided, or entire, from 5 to 10 centimeters long, the lobes, or segments usually pointed. The flowers are several or many together in lateral or subterminal, stalked, loose clusters, the individual ones on slender stalks from 4 to 6 millimeters long; the calyx is only about 1 millimeter long, the violet, blue, lilac, or rarely white corolla from 10 to 20 millimeters broad, the oblong anthers about 2 millimeters long. The red, globose berries are from 6 to 10 millimeters in diameter. The Porto Rico Flora contains 17 wild species of Solanum, 4 of them illustrated in this work. Cultivated, economic species include Solanum tuberosum, Papa, Potato, and Solanum Melongena, Berengena, Egg-plant, and several kinds are grown for ornament.
Species Description - This attractive flowering vine was introduced into English greenhouses by Lord Seaforth, from the West Indies, about the year 1800, and was named in his honor. In Porto Rico it grows in thickets and woodlands at lower and middle elevations, and has been observed on Vieques Island; its range extends throughout the West Indies, except the Bahama Islands, and widely in continental tropical America. The vine is frequently planted for ornament; the Spanish name Falsa Belladonna is also used. Solanum is a Linnaean genus with a very large number of species, estimated as, perhaps, 900, including herbs, vines, shrubs, and trees, unarmed, or prickly. The name is recorded as derived from solamen, quieting. Their leaves are various, their flowers clustered. The calyx is usually 5-toothed, or 5-cleft; the rotate corolla is 5-angled, or 5-lobed, with a very short tube; the 5 stamens, borne on the throat of the corolla, have short filaments, the long anthers connivent; the usually 2-celled ovary contains many ovules. The fruit is a many-seeded berry, the calyx persistent at its base, or partly enclosing it. Solanum Seaforthianum is a slender, unarmed, smooth, or sparingly hairy vine, from 1 to 6 meters long, its twigs angular. The thin, slender-stalked leaves are variously lobed, divided, or entire, from 5 to 10 centimeters long, the lobes, or segments usually pointed. The flowers are several or many together in lateral or subterminal, stalked, loose clusters, the individual ones on slender stalks from 4 to 6 millimeters long; the calyx is only about 1 millimeter long, the violet, blue, lilac, or rarely white corolla from 10 to 20 millimeters broad, the oblong anthers about 2 millimeters long. The red, globose berries are from 6 to 10 millimeters in diameter. The Porto Rico Flora contains 17 wild species of Solanum, 4 of them illustrated in this work. Cultivated, economic species include Solanum tuberosum, Papa, Potato, and Solanum Melongena, Berengena, Egg-plant, and several kinds are grown for ornament.
Discussion:
Jasmin de Italia Lord Seaforth's Nightshade Potato Family Solanum Seaforthianum Andrews, Botanical Repository 8; plate 504. 1807.
Jasmin de Italia Lord Seaforth's Nightshade Potato Family Solanum Seaforthianum Andrews, Botanical Repository 8; plate 504. 1807.
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