Solanum. ] CII. SOLANACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 233 
insect. At all events, normal unthickened flowers abound.—Leaves cooked ahd eaten 
in Sikkim (J. D. H.). 
** Prickly, some varieties of S. Melongena rarely unarmed. 
l4. S. giganteum, Jacq. Coll. iv. 125, and Ic. Rar. ii. t. 328; subar- 
boreous, spinous, leaves oblong cuneate at both ends, and cymes stellately white 
woolly beneath, cymes terminal dense many-fld. stellately white woolly, berry 
gin. diam. glabrous. Dunal Sol. 202, and in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 258; Nees 
in Trans, Linn. Soc. xvii. 47 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1921; Wight & Arn. in Ann, Nat. 
Hist. i. 395, t. 13; Wight Ic. t. 893; Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 175. S. niveum, 
Vahl Symb. ii. 41. S. farinosum, Wall. Cat. 2610, and in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 
Carey § Wall. ii. 255. S. argenteum, Heyne in Herb. Rottler. 
Mrs. of S. Deccan and Czyron, alt. 3-7000 ft., frequent ; Wight, Thwaites, &c. 
Often 10-25 feet high; but in cultivation flowers at 4 feet high; stem thick, 
soft, prickly, stellately white-woolly. Leaves 8 by 3 in., entire, undulate ; nerves 
1mpressed on the upper surface; petiole 2 in. Pedicels very short, in fruit }-} in. 
Calyx-lobes 25 in., triangular, in fruit twice as large. Corolla in. diam., blue; tube 
nearly as long as the lobes. Ovary puberulous. Seeds } in. diam., glabrous. 
15. S. ferox, Linn.; Dunal Sol. 223, and in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 255; 
densely stellately woolly, leaves ovate with short triangular lobes, racemes 
lateral dense, corolla white, berry 1-1} in. diam. globose hirsute with needle- 
like hairs greatly exceeding the ovate-triangular calyx-lobes. _ Nees in Trans. 
Linn, Soc. xvii, 59 (excl. syn. S. involucratum, Blume); Wight Ic. t. 1399 
(excl. var, minus); Kurz For. Fl. ii. 226, partly, and excl. var. 8). S. lasio- 
Carpum, Blume Bijd. 701; Wall. Cat. 2623; Dunal Sol. 222, and in DC. 
Prodr. xiii. pt. i, 262. S. hirsutum, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 17, and Fl, Ind. ed. 
cry § Walt. ii, 258, S. stramonifolium, Dunal Sol. 222, and DC. Prodr. 
XU. pt. i. 252, not of Jacq. nor of Wall.— Rheede Hort. Mal. ii. 35. 
, SASTERN and SOUTHERN IwDiA, in the tropical zone, frequent ; from Assam to 
Ceylon and to Tenasserim.—DisrRrB. Hongkong. . 1 
tem herbaceous, stout, 2—4 feet, sub-erect, prickly. Leaves 8 by 6 in., closely 
villous above, stellately fulvous-woolly beneath, lobes 1 in. deep, prickly especially 
on the nerves ; petiole 21 in. Peduncles usually close below the leaves, short ; 
Tacemes densely stellately woolly and with needle-like hairs, not prickly. Calyx 
shortly funnel-shaped ; lobes 1 in., ovate-triangular not acuminate. Corolla densely 
polly without, lobes #—1 in., oblong, acute. Ovary hirsute. Berry yellow, needle- 
Ke hairs 3-1 in. fu vous, spreading ; fruit-pedicels 3-1 in.; ealyx-lobes in fruit 
unaltered, hardly 2 the length of the berry. Seeds } in. diam., nearly smooth.— 
* Mrolucratum (Blume Bijd. 701), the Malay species reduced to S. ferox by Nees, 
“is the calyx-lobes produced, in fruit 1 in., ovate-linear, with slender prickles, enclos- 
ing the berry, , 
16. s, barbisetum, Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii, 51; hirsute, leaves 
ovate with short triangular lobes, racemes lateral elongate many-flowered, 
a blue lobes lanceolate acuminate, berry } in. diam, globose glabrous So- 
sed by the prickly calyx. Dunal in DC, Prodr. xiii, pt. i. 250. . ^ 
Be Dunal Lc. 949. S. involucratum, Kurz For. Fl. ii, 224, not of 
e. 
f tam N : po and Assam to Tenasserim, in the subtropical region, alt. 1-5000 
"p, ent, Wallich, Griffith, H. f. 4 T., ke. . : 
" In genera] appearance’ and M fis leaves, resembling S. feroz, A is 1-1 ine 
defi ered fine hairs, scarcely woolly. Racemes 2-6 in.; pedicels very Tla LR very 
n exed r flower. Calyx-lobes 1-4 in., oblong-lanceolate. Coro ickl es, teeth 
longi’? ute. Calya in fruit enlarged, tube subglobose with deflexed prickles, 
over the berry, Seeds more than in. diam., minutely villous. 
