Solanum.] CIL SOLANACEZ. (C. B. Clarke.) 235 
82, t. 133, fig. 1, not of Br. S. cuneatum, Moench Hort. Marb. 476. S. 
canescens, Blume Bid. 701. S. pinnatifidum and agreste, Roth Nov. Sp. 129, 
130. S. Heynei, Roem. & Sch. Syst. iv. 669. S. Anguivi, Bojer; Hook. Exot. 
FI. t. 199. S. himalense, Dunal i.c. 300. S. Junghuhnii, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 
il. 49.— Burm. Thes. Zeyl. 220, t. 102; Rheede Hort. Mal. ii. t. 36. 
Throughout tropical Inpia; very common, ascending to 5000 ft.—DIısTRIB. 
aya, China to the Philippines. 
An undershrub, 1-6 ft., much branched, very prickly ; prickles compressed, stout, 
often recurved. Leaves 3-6 by 1-4 in., subentire or pinnatifid; petiole 1 in. 
_ Peduncles short, often extra-axillary ; pedicels }—} in., stellately woolly. Calyzx-lobes 
In flower iin, triangular, acute, very woolly, unarmed or with slender straight spines. 
Corolla 3-1 in. diam., blue; lobes broadly triangular, tomentose without. Ovary 
usually glabrous ; style stellately pubescent. Berry yellow; calyx-lobes patent, 
. Woolly, prickles often strengthened in fruit. Seeds à in. diam. and upwards, smooth 
or very nearly so.—A Nilgherry form is less prickly, has smaller less lobed leaves, 
and small corymbs of larger flowers. A plant from the Concan is sparsely prickly 
and has the leaves very sparsely stellate tomentose. A Punjab example of Thomson 
branches with very numerous small thin leaves, a monstrosity that occurs in 
other Indian species of Solanum. 
Var. multiflora, Wight; rather stronger, more hairy, racemes stouter longer, 
stellate pubescence of the style extending over the ovary continued on the fruit or 
deciduous. S, multiflorum, Roth Nov. Sp. 130; Roem. § Sch. Syst. iv. 669. S. 
sx, var. minus, Wight Ic. t. 1400. S. torvum, var. B inerme, Nees in Trans. Linn. 
Se. xvii, 54; var. y inerme, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 261. S. erosum, Van 
Heurck § Muell. in Van Heurck Nov. Pl. 83. 
21. S. Melongena, Linn.; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 49; leaves 
. Ovate sinuate or lobed stellately woolly beneath prickly, rarely all unarmed, 
ue, berry glabrous 
‘ymes lateral few-fld., calyx-lobes lanceolate, flowers 
, Wceeding the ealyx-lobes in cultivation often large ellipsoid or elongate white 
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W or dark-purple. Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 130; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 566; Wall. 
- 2628 ; Wight TU. t. 166; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 61; Sendtn. in 
Mart, Brasil. Sol. 77. S. incanum, Linn. ; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. 1. 368. 
$ insanum, Linn. Mant. 46; Rorb. Fl. Ind. i. 568. S. zeilanicum, Scop. 
‘t.1. S. undatum, Lamk. Dict. iv. 301; Blume Bid. 700; Dunal Le 
- S. Trongum, Lamk. Dict. iv. 308. S. longum, Rorb. Hort. Beng. 16, 
"d FL Ind j 567. s. pseudo-undatum, Blume Bijd. 699. S. ovigerum, 
Blume Bijd. 698; Dunal l.c. 357. S. esculentum, Dunal Sol. 208, t. 3, and 3. 
C. le. 355. S. heteracanthum, Dunal; Nees l.c. 51; Dunal l.c. 365. 8. 
melanocarpum, sativum, pressum and Cumingii, Dunal l. c. 355, 360, 362 and 
X. 8. torvum, var. inerme, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 175. S. ferox, var. B, 
“rz For. Fl. ii. 226, not of Linn.—Rumph Herb. Amb. v. t. 85, and t. 86, 
& l; Rheede Hort. Mal. ii. t. 37, and x. t. 74. 
pola; generally cultivated.—DirsrRim. Cultivated in the warmer regions of the 
Herbaceous, 2-8 ft.; prickly, or sometimes nearly unarmed. Leaves 3-6 by 2-4 
W.; petiole 1 in. Peduncles mostly extra-axillary, often paired, one in 
den, flower, the other a short raceme of male flowers ; or the Taceme rer th b, 
dine Sessile with the lowest flower only perfect. Calyzx-lobes in fovet t è aite 
with” or oblong-linear. Corolla 1-121 in. diam., shortly lobed, hairy variable in 
Noni: Style stellately pubescent, or glabrous. Berry 1-9 in., often rickly 
— Nation ; calyx-lobes enlarged, usually much shorter than the pw. P isa 
natio town wild in India, according to Dalzell and Kurz ll.c.; A. bia > all this 
ive of Asia, not America, and Sendtner lc. fixes its origin in Ara ly ickly 
ande Uncertain. As an escape from cultivation it becomes often intensely pne» 
the peduncle carries 1-5 fruits.— The egg-plant, or Brinjal. 
