Sola?tmn:] SolanacecB. 231 



L. over 5 in., cal. densely tomentose. 



Fl. white 4. S. verbascifolium. 



Fl. purple. ... . . 5. S. giganteum. 



More or less prickly. 



Berry densely hairy 6. S. FEROX. 



Berry smooth. 



Fl. white 7. S. TORVUM. 



Fl. purple. 



L. over 2 in. ; berry yellow. 



Cymes many- flowered . . . . 8. S. INDICUM. 



Cymes i -flowered 9. S. XANTHOCARPUM. 



L. under 2 in., berry scarlet . . .10. S. trilobatum. 



1. S. nigrum, L. Sp. PL 266 (1753). K.alu-kan-weriya, S, 

 manaltakalli, T. 



Moon Cat. 15. Thw. Enum. 216. S. ttodifioruiit, Jacq., Moon Cat. 

 15. C. P. 2865. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 229. Wight, Ic. t. 344 {S. riibrum). 



Annual, 2-3 ft, stem erect, cylindrical, thickened at the 

 nodes, glabrous or more or less hispid-pubescent, much 

 divaricately branched, 1. numerous, ovate-lanceolate, tapering" 

 into obscure petiole, acuminate, subacute, usually entire, some- 

 times sinuate-dentate, glabrous, thin and flaccid ; fl. small, on 

 slender glabrous ped., cymes extra-axillary, 'iy-'j flowered, 

 umbellate, peduncle \-\ in., slender, divaricate ; cal. very 

 small, glabrous, segm. linear-oblong, reflexed and not enlarged 

 in fruit ; cor. under \ in., lobes very deep, lanceolate-linear, 

 acute ; berry \ in. diam., shining, purplish-black ; seeds 

 minute, in watery pulp, finely shagreened. 



A weed in cultivated ground ; common throughout the island, espe- 

 cially in montane zone. Fl. all the year; white. 



Throughout the world in temperate and Tropical countries. 



The Ceylon form of this variable plant always has very small flowers 

 and small purple-black berries, and does not much vary. 



2. S. laeve, Dwial, Solan. Sy7i. 22 (1816). [Plate LXVII.] 

 S. viembranacewn^ Wall., Thw. Enum. 216. C. P. 1900. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 231 (6". bigeminatujii, van zeylanicuni and S, denticu- 

 latum.) 



Semi-shrubby, stem slender, 2-4 ft., slightly branched, 

 cylindrical, glabrous or with a few simple hairs ; 1. 2^-6 in. 

 (upper ones the smallest), often in unequal pairs, lanceolate, 

 much tapering at both ends, acuminate or caudate, acute, 

 glabrous or slightly rough with a few short erect hairs, some- 

 times ciliate, entire or very slightly denticulate, thin, petiole 

 obscure ; fl. small, on slender, usually glabrous, ped., 2-10, in 

 sessile umbellate axillary cymes ; cal. small, glabrous, with 

 5-10 tooth-like segm. which are short, thick, distant, blunt, 

 spreading (star-like in bud), somewhat enlarged in fruit and 



