SOLANACEy^ §5 



Flowers few or solitary, 2 inches across. Lavender-blue, 

 t. 434. 



C.oonoor : Lamb's Rk. Rd., but not common. Flowers June. 



Solanum giganteum Jacq. ; F.B.L iv 237, 1 14. A large 

 shrub, almost a tree, with very white branches and under- 

 surface of the leaves, and armed with a few scattered 

 prickles on the branches. Leaves 6 to 8 inches by I^ to 

 3J^, elliptic ; when young with a few scattered stellate 

 hairs on the upper side, but soon glabrous, densely white 

 tomentose on the lower side. Flowers in terminal or 

 lateral very dense rounded masses ; calyx white, corolla 

 lilac, small. Berries J4 to ^ inch, glabrous. 



Nilgiris in sholas on the north side of the plateau, Kotagiri, 

 Curzon Tea Estate, etc. 



Gen. Dist. South India and Ceylon, 3,000 to 7,000 feet. 



Solanum species Z. A shrub of 4^6 feet, distin- 

 guished among our species of the genus by the margins 

 of the leaves being decurrent as wings 2 to 3 inches 

 down the branches. Densely tomentose all over, especi- 

 ally on the young parts and peduncles with reddish 

 brown branched hairs. Prickles on the stem compressed 

 glossy and curved, like those of a rose, on the leaves 

 narrow and straight. Leaves in general outline ovate, 

 with shallow triangular lobes. Peduncle 1-2 inch, out- 

 side the axils. Flowers white, y\ inch, the coralla 

 divided nearly to the base into narrow J^ inch lobes. 

 Berry i inch in diameter, globose-acute, tomentose, 

 green, t. 435. 



Nilgiris : Coonoor abundant. 



Solanum sis v mbrif olium Lamk. A low shrub covered 



rather with glandular hairs and also sharp yellowish 

 prickles. Leaves deeply pinnatifid, covered on both with 

 sides stellate hairs, shorter and closer on the under. 

 Flowers in terminal corymbs white or lilac. Berries 



