234 Solanace(2. [Solanum. 



S. ciliatum, Lam., a Brazilian species, very prickly, with a large 

 bright-red globular fruit and white flowers, is a common weed about 

 Peradeniya and Hakgala ; no doubt escaped from the Gardens. 



7. S. torvuiii, Siu. Prod. Fl. Ind. Occ. 47 (1788). 

 Thw. Enum. 216. C. P. 2867. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 234. Wight, Ic. t. 345. 



Semi-shrubby, Ty-6 ft, stems with long internodes, cylin- 

 drical, brittle, with silvery-grey lenticellate bark, younger 

 branches densely stellate-hairy, prickles usually very few,, 

 short and distant ; 1. 4-5 in., rotundate-oval, rounded and 

 generally unequal-sided at base, acute, sinuate or very 

 shallowly lobcd, stellate-hairy on both sides, densely so- 

 beneath, without prickles, petiole f-i in., stellate-tomentose ; 

 fl. on glandular-pubescent ped. which become much thickened 

 with fruit, rather numerous, cymes dichotomous, racemose,, 

 rather dense, peduncle very short, bracts o ; cal. glandular- 

 pubescent, lobes lanceolate, acute ; cor. f-i in. diam., pubes- 

 cent outside, lobes triangular, long-acuminate; berry f in., on 

 swollen nodulated ped., glabrous, glaucous green, cal. at base 

 slightly enlarged ; seeds smooth. 



A weed in waste and cultivated ground in the moist region to 5000 ft.,. 

 very common. Fl. all the year; white. 

 Throughout Tropical Asia and America. 

 The flowers are always white here. 



8. S. indicum, L. Sp. PI. 187 (1753). Tibbatu, 6". 



Herm. Mus. 25, 31, 65. Burm. Thes. 220. Fl. Zeyl. n. 94. Moon, 

 Cat. 16. Thw. Enum. 217. C. P. 1904. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 234. Burm. Thes. t. 102. Wight, Ic. t. 346. 



Semi-shrubby, 1-3 ft., stem stout, much branched, often 

 purple, with many scattered, large, slightly curved, sharp 

 prickles with long compressed base, covered (including 

 prickles) with a scurfy coating of minute white stellate hair^ 

 denser on the young parts; 1. 4-6 in., ovate in outline, caudate 

 or rounded, often unequal-sided at base, acute, with a few 

 large oval-triangular subacute lobes, rough above with stalked 

 stellate hair, whitc-tomentose beneath with the same, veins 

 with a few large straight spines on both sides, petiole \-2 in.,, 

 armed like the stem ; fl. large, numerous, on short stellate- 

 hairy and prickly ped. \ in. long, cymes racemose extra- 

 axillary, peduncle short ; cal. small, stellate-hairy, segm. 

 oblong-lanceolate, subacute; cor. i-i^ in. diam., stellate-hairy 

 outside, lobes ovate-oblong, acute, somewhat crumpled at 

 margins; berry \ in., surrounded at base by large spreading 

 cal., smooth (with a few stellate hairs on summit), dark yellow.. 



