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racemes. Calyx green, the tube slightly spiny. Corolla violet or purplish, 
rotate, shallowly 5-lobed, nearly 2 cm in diameter. Stamens yellow. Fruit 
globose, glabrous, 2.5 em in diameter, green mottled with white, or yellow- 
ish, the accrescent calyx nearly 2 cm in diameter. (Fl. Filip. pl. 49.) 
In waste places, occasional, fl. more or less all the year; widely distributed 
in the Philippines. An endemic species reduced by some authors to So- 
lanum melongena L., of which it may be a wild form. 
5. S. TorvuM Sw. Tandang-aso, Talampay (Tag.). 
A coarse, erect, branched, suffrutescent herb 1 to 3 m high, the branches 
with short scattered spines, most parts stellate-pubescent. Leaves ovate 
to oblong-ovate, 10 to 20 cm long, sinuate-lobed, acuminate, base inequi- 
lateral. Inflorescence lateral, usually extra-axillary, racemose, often dicho- 
tomous. Flowers many, white, about 1 cm long. Fruit globose, yellow, 
glabrous, about 1 cm in diameter. 
In waste places, occasional, fl. all the year; widely distributed about towns 
in the Philippines undoubtedly introduced. Tropical America, tropical 
Asia, and Malaya. 
* 6. S. ATHROANTHUM Dunal. 
A slender, scandent, nearly glabrous vine about 2 m high, the branches 
and petioles armed with recurved spines. Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, 
irregularly and coarsely sinuate, 2 to 5 cm long, apex rounded, base sub- 
truncate, often inequilateral. Racemes lateral, few-flowered, about as 
long as the leaves. Flowers long-pedicelled, pale-blue, about 1.5 ecm in 
diameter. Fruit globose, glabrous, about 1 cm in diameter. 
In hedges along roadsides, near the Balic-balic cemetery fl. July—Dec., 
and probably in other months; known in the Philippines only from Manila. 
A native of Java and undoubtedly of recent introduction here. 
*7. S. WENDLANDII Hook. f. 
A climbing glabrous vine reaching a length of several meters, the stems 
with a few scattered prickles. Leaves variable, simple and entire to deeply 
pinnately iobed or even pinnately compound, 10 to 25 cm long, oblong to 
oblong-ovate in outline, the midrib often with scattered prickles beneath, 
the lobes, when present, few, often only 3, oblong, elliptic, or ovate, acute 
or acuminate, close or distant. Cymes large, many-flowered, the corolla 
pale-blue, about 4 cm in diameter. 
Singalon, Malate, etc., in gardens, cultivated, fl. June and probably in 
other months. A native of tropical America of recent introduction here. 
In addition to the above species the potato (Sp. patata) (Solanum 
tuberosum L.) is imported and is always to be found in the Manila market. 
This species is a native of tropical America and is now cultivated in all 
warm countires. In the Philippines it is successfully cultivated only at 
medium or higher altitudes. 
6. LYCOPERSICUM Miller 
Coarse, ascending or spreading, pubescent, rank-scented, annual 
herbs. Leaves alternate, pinnate or bipinnate, the leaflets unequal in 
size, toothed or lobed. Flowers in extra-axillary, few-flowered racemes 
or cymes. Sepals 5 or 6, linear-lanceolate, spreading, acuminate. Corolla 
yellow, the tube short, the lobes 5 or 6, lanceolate, spreading. Stamens 5 or 
6, inserted on the corolla-tube; anthers connivent in an elongated cone. 
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