XCI, SOLANACE (WRIGHT). 207 
OrpdER XCI. SOLANACEAS. (By C. H. Wright.) 
Flowers usually hermaphrodite, regular or slightly irregular. Calyx 
4—5- (rarely 6-7-) toothed or lobed ; lobes imbricate or valvate. Corolla 
campanulate, rotate, funnel-shaped or tubular, sometimes plicate ; lobes 
4—5 (rarely 6-7), induplicate-valvate or imbricate in bud, patent or 
more rarely erect. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes, rarely fewer, 
inserted in the corolla-tube ; filaments short or long; anthers distinct 
or conniving ina cone, cells parallel er diverging, dehiscing by terminal 
or oblique pores or longitudinal slits. Disk annular, entire or lobed or 
absent. Ovary superior, sessile or shortly stipitate, 2—5-celled ; style 
terminal, filiform or clavate ; stigma terminal, small or slightly expanded 
or bilamellate ; ovules numerous, anatropous or amphitropous. Fruit 
an indehiscent berry, or a capsule dehiscing by valves or circumscissile. 
Seeds numerous, sinall; albumen fleshy ; embryo often terete, near the 
outside of the albumen ; cotyledons semiterete, rarely wider than the 
radicle.-—Herbs, erect or climbing shrubs, more rarely trees, glabrous, 
pubescent or stellately tomentose, sometimes spiny. Leaves alternate, 
geminate or verticillate, entire or variously lobed. Inflorescence 
cymose, terminal, leaf-opposed or extra-axillary, sometimes appearing 
umbellate, racemose or fasciculate, or reduced to one flower. 
Species about 1400, absent only from arctic and alpine regions, very abundant in 
tropical and extra-tropical South America. 
Fruit bacc ite. 
Anthers usually dehiscing by pores . 
Anthers dehiscing by longitudinal slits. 
Calyx much enlarged in fruit. 
Flowers solitary 
Flowers fascicled . : . . 
Calyx not or slightly enlarged in fruit. 
Corolla subrotate, valvate : : 4 
Corolla urceolate, induplicate-valvate oon 
Corolla tubular or funnel-shaped, imbricate - 6. LYCIUM:. 
Corolla salver-shaped, induplicate-valvate . 7. CESTRUM. 
Fruit capsular. 
Capsule 4-valved 
Capsule circumscissile 
Capsule 2-valved. 
Stamens 5 . 
Stamens 2. 
1. SOLANUM. 
PHY SATIS: 
. WITHANIA. 
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. CAPSICUM. 
5. DiscopopicmM. 
8. DATURA. 
9, HyoscyAMUs. 
; 10; NICOTIANA. 
x11 SOHWENE SA. 
1. SOLANUM, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 888. 
_ Calyx campanulate, rotate or cupular, 4—5-toothed or -lobed, some- 
times slightly enlarged in fruit. Corolla rotate or widely campanulate ; 
limb plicate, or more or less deeply 4—5-lobed and induplicate-valvate. 
Stamens 4~5, inserted in the corolla-throat; filaments very short ; 
