Solanum.] CII. SOLANACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 237 
_ Pewinsuta ; from Arracan to Malacca, in the tidal swamps, frequent. CEYLON ; drier 
parts of the island. 
A scandent undershrub, 6-12 ft., nearly glabrous; prickles short, stout, com- 
pressed, recurved. Leaves 3 by 1} in., irregularly obtusely sinuate or lobed, base not 
cordate ; petiole 3-11 in. Peduncles short, mostly extra-axillary ; pedicels 4-14 in., 
with short, strong, recurved prickles. Calyz-lobes } in., ovate-oblong, minutely 
stellately pubescent or glabrate, rarely prickly, y enlarged in fruit. Corolla 
1-1} in. diam., pubescent without; lobes triangular-lanceolate, as long as the tube. 
Seeds d in., smooth, or very nearly so. 
_ Var. ? Griffithii; leaves 23 by ġ in. linear.—Malay Peninsula, Griffith (Kew 
Distrib. n. 5915). 
26. S. gracilipes, Dcne. in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 113, t. 119; minutely 
stellately pubescent, stem prickly, leaves ovate or orbicular sinuate often sub- 
cordate not prickly, peduncles axillary short 1-3-fld. or pedicels subterminal 
1-3 together on very short lateral spurs, berry } in. diam. globose glabrous 
exceeding the sublinear sepals. Duna? in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 286; Boiss. 
Fl. Orient. iv. 286. S. Jacquemonti, Dunal l. c. 287. 
Western Inpia; Punjab and Scinde, Jacquemont, Stocks, Dalzell.—Distnis. 
Beloochistan. . 
An undershrub ; prickles short, conical, subrecurved. Leaves 1} in. diam., obtuse, 
rarely lobed, usually shallowly cordate; petiole ł in.  Peduncles very short or 0; 
pedicels 4-14 in., slender. Calyx-lobes } in. linear; in fruit j in. Corolla $ in. 
» deeply lobed. Seeds & in. diam., smooth.— This is believed to be S. cordatum, 
Forsk, Fl. Æg.-Arab, 47 (Dunal Sol. 239, and in DC. Prodr. xiii, 373), an Arabian 
Species of which no authentic example can be seen. 
.?7. S. aculeatissimum, Jacq. Coll. i. 100, and Ic. Rar. i. t. 41; 
es very many long straight slender, leaves ovate lobed sparsely hairy, 
. Peduncles 177-fld. mostly 1-fruited, berry 1} in. diam. globose smooth, fruiting- 
calyx small prickly, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 244. 
Stroarorr ; G. Thomson.—DisrRis. Malaya, Tropical America ? o. 
The example of G. Thomson (in fruit) is identical with Zollinger, n. 529, which is 
type of S. aculeatissimum, var. denudatum, Dunal lc. Stems glabrous (in the 
mar. denudatum) or minutely puberulous upwards. Leaves 3-5 in. Peduncles in fruit 
din, Calyx in fruit scarcely } in., but very prickly. Seeds 3 in. diam., extremely 
compressed, almost winged. 
1*. LYCOPERSICUM, Miller. 
Tall, pube . innate; pinnæ toothed or lyrate. Cymes 
Peduncled, few d we i" marrow, i eitered in fruit. Corolla rotate, 
Very short; limb 5~-6-fid, plaited in bud. Stamens 5-6, on the corolla- 
; anthers connivent in an elongate cone, dehiscing by slits. Ovary 1 
ud style cylindric, stigma small capitate. Seeds many, compressed, papil- 
j embryo peripheric.—Species 3-4, American. 
„u. esculentum Miller ; Dunal Sol. 113, t. 3, fig. C., and in DC. D 
"26; Nees in Trans, Linn. Soc. xvii. 61. L. cerasiforme, Dunal Sol. 113, 
| t3 fig. B., and in DC. Prodr. xiii. 26 ; Nees l.c. 62, with several other m" 
ei ral Solanum Lycopersicum, Linn.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. bes . Cat, 
Ja, po: Humboldtii, Wiid. Hort. Berol. i. 27, t. 27. S. pseudolycopersicum, 
“4. Hort. Vind, i. t. 11. , . 
Cultivated, and as an escape, in Inp1a.—DistRiB. Native of Tro cal gn in. 
s $ in. diam., yellow; in cultivation 2-6-merous, or * double. dispen, er 
md; or, in cultivation, enlarged, pyriform or depressed 
omato. 
