species are confused— the one with included sta- 

 mens and the lobes of the calyx equal, the other 

 with exsertcd stamens and the lobes unequal, as 

 here shown. 



1394. EcHIxNOSPERMUM C^LESTINUM (R. W. 



Ctjnoglossum codesiinum^ Lind.), sparingly pubes- 

 cent, except on the veins on the under-surface of 



Neilgherries, not unfrequent in clumps of jungle 

 in moist soil near springs and streams. 



1398. SoLANUM VERBA sciFOLiuM (Linn.), shrub- 

 by: leaves ovate-oblong acuminate, entire, tomen- 

 tose, surfaces discoloured: axills leafless: corymbs 



half 



sub-terminal, dichotomous, peduncled: 



5-cleft. Nees. 



calyx 



the leaves and younger branches: stem erect, ra- Neilgherries, frequent about the elevation of 



J. _, 1 , .. , . .. Coonoor (6000 feet), less so above that zone, gen- 



erally to be met with in flower and fruit at all 



Usually a tall straight bush, but sorae- 

 a small tree with a bushy head; flowers 

 pale yellow or a kind of dirty white. 



1399, 1400. SoLANUM FERox (Linn.), perennante- 



mous: radical leaves large, reniform-cordate, entire, 

 smooth, about 9-nerved at the base, somewhat 

 cuspidate at the apex; cauline ones ovato-lanceo- 

 late, sessile: racemes ebractiate, dichotomous: calyx 

 5-parted, lobes ovate bluntish: tube of the corolla 

 about the length of the calyx, limb 5-cleft spread- 

 ing; lobes orbicular: nuts ovate, depressed, bound 



seasons, 

 times 



with a membranous wing, glochidiate on the mar- herbaceous, v^ooddy at the base: leaves paired, cor'- 



gin and furnished with prickles on the middle. 

 Apparently biennial, one or two feet high: leaves 

 smooth and nearly glabrous: fructiferous pedicels 

 reflexed: corolla apparently blue with a paler mar- 

 gin: scales on the throat obtuse, inflexed at the 

 point. 



Belgaum and Bombay. 



I am indebted to Mr. Law of Bombay for the 

 specimen here figured, he sent it from the latter 

 place as a species of "Cynoglossum probably C. 

 ccdeslmum^^ Lindley. 



- The plant agrees so well with the character of 

 that species that Mr. Law's conjecture seems cor- 

 rect, except for the circumstance of this being, 

 as I understand the genus, a true Echinospermum, 

 Under the impression that it may be Lindley's 

 plant I have retained his specific name. 



1395. Ctnoglossum furcatum (Wall.), stems 



ramous, adpressed, pubescent or tomentose, the 



hairs on the lower part reflexed: leaves glauces- 



cent, adpressed-pubescent; radical ones petioled, 



oval-lanceolate, acute at both ends ; cauline ones 



sessile, the upper ones half-stem-clasping, ovato- 



cordate: racemes paired, slender, ebractiate, secund, 



hairy. — Flowers purple, scales of the throat two- 



lobed. 



Neilgherries, very common, rising from one to 



three feet high, and in flower at nearly all seasons. 

 This species appears very nearly allied to C. 

 micranthum^ from which indeed it seems scarcely 

 to differ; I believe, however, this is the true C 

 farcatum. If I have not confounded the two species 

 this has an extensive range of geographical dis- 

 tribution, extending from the Himalayas to Ceylon, 

 and is ^pnerally to be met with in alpine regions 

 throughout that wide extent of country. 



1396. Datura fastuosa (Nees), annual; leaves 

 ovate acuminate, repando-dentate, unequal at the 

 base, and like the stems puberulous; fruit drooping, 



tubercled. 



Common about Coimbatore, distinguished from 

 D. Stramonium by the fruit drooping in this, erect 

 in that. 



1397. SoLANur^r denticulatum (Blume), stem 

 suffruticose : inferior leaves solitary, upper ones 

 paired, smoothish; one of them larger, oblong acu- 

 minate at both ends, the other smaller, somewhat 

 obovate: flowers fasciculately-aggregated, lateral: 

 calyx minutely 10-denticulate, furrowed. 



date, sinuately angled, woolly tomentose andprickly 

 on both sides : peduncles intra-foliaceous and, like 

 the^ short pedicels calyx and berries, hairy. 



and September, 

 and Neilgherries always in flower. 



Courtallum, flowering August 



1399, SoLANUM FEROx, Hiajus. 

 Courtallum. 



(Nees.) 



1400, SoLANUM FEROX, miuus. (Nees.) 



Neilgherries. 



Nees Von Esenbeek views these two forms as 

 but varieties of the same species. I think there 

 is room for dissenting from that view, but yet I, 

 for the present, adopt it as my opportunities > of 

 examining the correctness or otherwise of his opin- 

 ion have not been such as to satisfy me on the 

 subject. One circumstance is worthy of note, 

 namely, that the former of these plants, No. 1399, 

 has not, so far as I am aware, been met with on 

 the higher range of the Neilgherries, while the 

 other is quite common. That diflference of habit, 

 combined with its glabrous fruit, causes me to 

 doubt the correctness of Nees' decision in this 

 instance. * 



1401. SoLANUM Jacquini (Willd.), herbaceous, 

 perennial: stem procumbent, ramous, prickly : leaves 

 ovate oblong, sub-cordate, sinuato-pinnatitid, at first 

 sparingly stellato-hispid on both sides, afterwards 

 smooth shining and quite glabrous, furnished on 

 the disk with numerous long, straight prickles : 

 margins unarmed: racemes prickly, extra-foliacious, 

 few-flowered. Calyx campanulate, 5-cleft, armed, 

 lacineae broadly ovate cuspidate; spreading in the 

 fruit. 



A rather frequent plant, generally met with in 

 open exposed situations, flowering during the cool 

 season and ripening its fruit during the earlier 

 months of the year. Berries red, succulent. 



1402. SoLANuM (Ntctertum) pubescens (Willd.), 

 shrubby, unarmed, clothed all over with short some- 

 what viscid tomentose-pubescence: leaves ovate 

 acute, entire or sub-repand: racemes corymbose, 

 lateral: the lower anther larger. 



Coimbatore: very common in the low jungles 

 on arid soil near the foot of the hills in this dis- 

 trict, and generally in similar places extending all 

 along the range of mountains, nearly to Cape 

 Comorin. It sometimes attains the size of a rather 

 large bush, 6-8 feet high, very ramous: branches 



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