232 CI SOLANACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Solanum. 
Mrs. of the Deccan PENINSULA, alt. 4-8000 ft., and CEYLON, frequent.—Distris. 
Malay Islands. . 
A woody, somewhat rigid shrub. Leaves 3 by 1} in. young almost villous, 
mature setulose above, pubescent often rusty on the nerves beneath; petiole jin. 
Pedicels 1-4 together, 2in. Calyzx-teeth lanceolate, minute; in fruit din. or 0 on the 
same shrub. Berry l-iin. Seeds j in. diam. and upwards, smooth or nearly so. 
Van. Gouakai; leaves angular and sometimes with acute lobes l in. long. S. 
Gouakai, Dunal in DC. l.c. 177.—Pulney Mts.; Wight. Ceylon; Walker. 
11. S. biflorum, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 129, not of D. Don ; leaves elliptic 
or oblong acuminate at both ends entire glabrous setulose or pubescent, calyx- 
teeth 10 in flower jj in. narrow-lanceolate, corolla 1-3 in. Dunal in DC. 
Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 178; Kurz For. Fl. 294. S. decemdentatum, Roxb. Hort. 
Beng. 16, and Fl. Ind. i. 565; Wall. Cat. 2614 ; Dunal l.c. 179. S. mollissi- 
mum, Blume Bid. 698; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc, xvii. 45; Dunal l.c. 178. 
S. decemfidum, Nees l. c. 43. S. Zollingeri, Calleryanum and Osbeckii, Dunal 
l.c. 176, 178, 179. 
SmncaporE; Wallich. Mercur and Maracca; Griffih.—DisrRis. Malaya and 
East Ava. . 
A shrub; shoots flocculose-setose or nearly glabrous. Leaves 5 by 1$ in. ; petiole 
2in. Pedicels 1-6,2 in. Flower and fruit nearly as in S. denticulatum, from which 
it only differs in the longer calyx-teeth.—Very variable in indumentum ; Roxburgh 
describes the leaves as villous, the calyx as pubescent; his Ic. Ined. preserved at 
Kew represents a glabrous form. 
12. S. macrodon, Wall. Cat. 2621; erect, shrubby, leaves elliptic- 
lanceolate acuminate at both ends entire setulose above, pedicels 1-8 together, 
calyx-teeth in flower 2 in. linear hispidulous, corolla 4-4 in. Nees in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. xvii. 43; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 180. S. biflorum, Don 
Prodr. 96, excl. syn., not of Lour. 
Temperate HIMALAYA, alt. 4-8000 ft., from Nepal to Bhotan, common. Kuasia 
Mrs., alt. 3-5000 ft., common. . 
A small shrub setulose with jointed, submoniliform, glistening hairs. Leaves 6 
in. in large examples, or 2 in. in high level forms; petiole 1-3 in. Pedicels 3-1 10., 
mostly 2-6 together, sometimes solitary. Calyx-teeth (in flower) terminal, alternate 
sometimes shorter. Corolla-lobes oblong, acute, purple rose or nearly white, with 2 
green glandular spots near the base. Berry } in. diam., globose. Seeds 4 in. diam., 
subtriangular, smooth. 
Var. lysimachioides; stems slender procumbent often rooting at the nodes, 
pedicels solitary. Wall. Cat. 2609, and in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. ii. 257; 
Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 44; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii, 181.—Temperate 
Himalaya, from Kumaon (Strachey § Winterbottom) to Bhotan. Khasia Mts. alt. 
3—5000 feet. 
13. S. crassipetalum, Wall. Cat. 2618, and in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 
Carey § Wall. ii. 256 ; erect, shrubby, leaves elliptic-lanceolate acuminate at both 
ends entire glabrous or sparsely setulose, pedicels 1-8 together, calyx-teeth 1n 
flower J,-; in. triangular glabrous or pubescent from a compressed base below 
the calyx-rim, corolla 4—4 in, Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 42. Bassovia? 
Wallichii, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xii. 409. 
TEMPERATE HrMALAYA, alt. 3-8000 ft.; from Nepal to Bhotan, very common. 
A shrub, 2-9 feet. Leaves 6 by 23 in. (sometimes 9-10 in.); usually near! 
glabrous, sometimes abundantly flocculose-setulose; petiole 2 in. Calyx-teeth n 
flower below the limb, bases compressed deeurrent on the tube, points linear-obtuse 
divaricate horizontally. Corolla and berry nearly as of S. macrodon.— The thicken- 
ing of the petals observed in the fewexamples of Wallich frequently occurs in this 
species, but in abnormal flowers with imperfect stamens, and is perhaps due to some 
