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SOLANUM. 



See Vol. I p. 295, and add 



"^ No Prickles. Erect Plants. 



Solanum nigrum L.; F.B.I. iv 229, 1 I. A small 

 shrub with smooth nearly glabrous branches. Leaves 

 ovate-deltoid, 2 by M inch often slightly lobed at the 

 broadest part. Stem sparingly pubescent. Peduncles 

 outside the leaf-axils, about ^^ inch ; pedicles % inch. 

 Corolla white. Berry globose % inch, red, black or 

 yellow. 



Nilgirib : Ootacamund road-sides, etc. Pulneys : above 

 Pallangi and Vilpatti, etc. 



Gen. Dist. India up to 7,000 feet and throughout tropical and temperate 

 countries (England, etc.). 



Solanum species X near S. verbascifolium Linn ; 

 F.B.L iv 230, I 5. A shrub of 10 to 15 feet characteristed 

 by the almost invariable presence in the axils of a pair of 

 ear-shaped small reflexed leaves simulating stipules. All 

 green parts covered with a tomentum of stellate hairs. 

 Leaves, 8 to 14 inches by 3 to 5 inches, ovate, lanceolate, 

 long-acute. Flowers in dense cymose corymbs. Corolla, 

 Vz \.Q V2 inch across, lilac or blue, glabrous inside, 

 tomentose outside. Berry J^ inch diameter, pubescent, 

 yellow, t. 432. 



Nilgiris : Coonoor along the stream through Brooklands 

 estate, etc., abundant there. 



Obviously an introduction by the way ii grows, [t differs from S. 

 verbascifolium L., an Indian plant in the tomentose fruits, and the peculiar 

 ear-shaped axillary leaves. It belongs, so I am told, to the sect Leptcs- 

 temonum, sub-sect Asterotrichotum and § oliganthas. 



Solanum l88ve Dunal. ; F.B.L iv 231, I 9. A small 

 shrub with rather thin zig-zag branches. Leaves broadly 

 elliptic, acuminate at both ends, entire glabrous. 

 Flowers fascicled in axillary pedicles, of J^ to I inch 



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