324 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AXD PRODUCTIOXS. 



its medicinal ofFocts is tlie Fox-fjlove (Ih'i/ifah's purpurea), -which owes its energetic 

 action to the presence of a peculiar bitter principle, Diy/fu/iue, which possesses the 

 power of lowering the pulse, and is hence of extreme value ia certain, forms of 

 heart disease. 



■::■ ■:• Flowers mualJy reyuhir. 



SOLAN ALES. 

 Corolla monopetalous, hypogynous, regular or oblique. Stamens as many as the 

 corolla-lobes, epipetalous, equal or unequal. Ocary 2-ceUed, syncarpous. Cells very 

 numerous, and very numerously ovuled. Leaecs alternate or geminate, rarely opposite 

 exstipulate. Herbs, rarely shrubs or trees. 



Order SOLAXE^. 



Flowers regular, or nearly so, hermaphrodite. Calyx 5- rarely .5-10-toothed, 

 lobed or cleft, rarely almost entire and truncate, persistent, or rarely cia-cumsciss- 

 deciduous, beyond the base, often enlarging in fruit. Corolla from rotate to funnel- 

 shaped, plaitedly 4- (rarely 4-10-)lobed or cleft, imbricate or twisted in bud. Slainens 

 as many as corolla-lobes, and alternating with them. Filainenls usually very short 

 and connivent, either parallel or more usually tapering upwards, and forming a cone 

 round the style, opening in apical pores or transverse slits, rarely dehiscing along 

 their whole length, usually without any prominent connective between the cells. 

 Ovary entire (or rarely consisting of 2-30 distinct carpels), 1-6-celled, each cell with 

 1 or many ovules. Style and stigma simple, or with as many lobes as there are 

 ovary-cells. Fruit either a drupe with a 1-6-celled putamen (or rarely the drupes 

 distinct with a 2-celled and 2-seeded putamen), or more usually a pulpy beriy 

 or a septicidally opening, 2-valved or at the summit circumsciss-opening capsule. 

 Seeds compressed. Albumen copious fleshy. Emhryo curved to spii-al, rarely 

 straight, with half cylindrical cotyledons, the radicle terete. Herbs, shrubs, 

 or rarely soft-wooded trees with alternate simple lobed or pinnate leaves. Stiijules 

 none. Flowers solitary or in centrifugal cymes or unilateral racemes usually at first 

 terminal, but becoming lateral from the elongation of the shoot, rarely axillary. 

 Braels and braetlets usually none. 



SOLANIE.K. 



Berry 2- or more seeded, 2)IaceniatioH central. Rarely a capsule without valces. 



* Fruit a berry. 



'I Fruitiiiy caly.v enlarged or not, supporting the berry. 



+ Ocules and seeds very numerous. 



SoLANUJi, Linnaus. 

 Anthers opening by apical pores. 



X Corolla more or less pubescent or tomentose outside. 

 J Glabrous or only very thinly sprinkled with minute stellate hairs. 



S. TEiLOBATUii, L. Tree forests of Arakan and Pegu. 



The 3-lobed nightshade. 



Scandent imder shrub, armed with recurved prickles, leaves slightly lobed. 

 Berries the size of a pea, edible, tliough rather bitter. 



+ X All parts more or less densely stellate-tomentose. 

 -f- Flowers in a true cyme. 

 S. TOEVUM, Swartz. All over Burma and introduced into the Andamans. 



Prickly, loaves more or less lobed, pubescent. 

 S. vERBAsciFOLiuM, L. All ovcr Burma. 



Unarmed. Leaves entire, thickly tomentose. Benies edible. 



