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1. More or less spiny or prickly herbs or vines. 
2. Erect, stellate-pubescent, coarse herbs. 
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8. Leaves not epinyucsus 2s. Sh Sines hie ees 5. S. torvum 
2. Scandent, glabrous or nearly so, stems and petioles more or less spiny 
or prickly. 
3. Flowers about 1.5 cm in diameter, in few-flowered racemes; leaves 
LF eae eee Re eo. +5 eal rll ta Rn Beis» i, SAE Oe 6. S. athroanthum 
3. Flowers about 4 cm in diameter, in many-flowered cymes; leaves 
simple and entire, and pinnately lobed or pinnate on the same 
11) 1 salami prs Wiens birt bri: Baca fe At eh A be 7. S. wendlandii 
1. S. verbascifolium L. Talong-aso, Malatalong, Malatabaco (Tag.). 
A shrub 1 to 4 m high, all parts stellate-pubescent. Leaves ovate, ob- 
long-ovate, or elliptic-ovate, 10 to 23 em long, entire, acuminate, base 
acute or somewhat rounded, the lower surface pale and densely stellate- 
pubescent. Cymes terminal or subterminal, dichotomously compound, pe- 
duncled, rather densely flowered. Calyx grayish-green, about 5 mm long. 
Corolla white, often tinged with green, the lobes spreading, about 1.3 cm 
in diameter, pubescent outside. Fruit globose, fleshy, green or yellowish, 
nearly 1 cm in diameter. (FI. Filip. pl. 86.) 
In open dry lands, thickets, .etc., fl. Aug._Feb.; widely distributed in 
the Philippines. Tropical Asia to Australia, and tropical America. 
2. S. NigRuM L. Cunti (Tag.). 
An erect, branched, glabrous or nearly glabrous herb, 1 m high or less. 
Stems green, somewhat 3-angled. Leaves ovate to oblong, petioled, 5 to 8 
cm long, acuminate, base acute or acuminate, margins subentire or un- 
dulately toothed or lobed. Peduncles extra-axillary, 1 to 2.5 cm long, the 
flowers umbellately disposed, 5 to 8 on each peduncle, nodding. Calyx 
green, the lobes ovate-oblong. Corolla white, about 8 mm in diameter. 
Fruit a dark-purple or black, glabrous, globose, fleshy berry about 5 mm in 
diameter. . 
In waste places, occasional, fi. all the year; widely distributed in the 
Philippines, and probably introduced. All temperate and tropical coun- 
tries. 
*3. S. MELONGENA L. Talong (Tag.); Berenjena (Sp.); Egg Plant. 
A coarse, usually branched, erect annual 0.4 to 1 m high, somewhat 
prickly or unarmed. Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, stellate-pubescent be- 
neath, irregularly and shallowly lobed, 10 to 25 cm long. Flowers axillary, 
about 2.5 cm long, purplish or bluish. Fruit fleshy, smooth, purple, up to 
25 em long, very variable in shape, globose to oblong or cylindric-oblong. 
(Fl. Filip. pl. 265.) 
Cultivated for its edible friut, fl. more or less all the year. Not a native 
of the Philippines, its origin uncertain; cultivated in most tropical and 
temperate countries. 
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4. S$. cumingii Dunal. Talangbulo, Tarambulo (Tag.). 
A spreading or ascending, somewhat branched, stellate-pubescent herb 
30 to 60 cm high. Stems, petioles, and leaves with scattered, sharp, rather 
stout spines, 3 to 6 mm long. Leaves oblong-ovate, acute or slightly 
acuminate, irregularly undulate-lobed, base inequilateral, 4 to 12 cm long, 
stellate-pubescent on both surfaces. Flowers in axillary, 1- to 5-flowered 
