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The following, not belonging to any of the genera described above, 

 are grown in gardens as ornamental plants : — 



Legendrea moUissima, Webb & Berthelot, Hist. Nat. Canar. v. 3, 

 part 2, sect. 3, p. 27, t. 137. A strong climber, a native of the Canary 

 Islands. It lives several years and develops a thick stem of a pale ash- 

 color marked by deep farrows. The leaves are cordate, smooth, about 

 4 by 3 in., and the flowers are produced in great profusion in October. 

 Woodr. Grard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 395. 



QuamocUt coccinea, Moench. Method. (1795) p. 453, A subscandent 

 shrub with weak stems, a native of Tropical America. It has ovate 

 cordate acute leaves and lax cymes of crimson tlowers. Qaamodit 

 phcenicea, Choisy, in Mem. Soc. Phys. Genev. v. 6 (1834) p. 433; Dalz. 

 & Gibs. Suppl. p. 59. Ipomoea coccinea, Linn. 8p. PI. (1753) p. I(j0 ; 

 Bot. Mag. (1794) t. 221 ; C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. PI. B. I. v. 4, p. 199; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (189S) p. 171. 



QuamocUt vulgaris, Choisy, in Mem. Soc. Phys. Genev. v. 6 (1834) 

 p. 434. A handsome twining glabrous annual, a native of Tropical 

 America, very common in gardens throughout the Presidency and 

 indeed throughout India. It has pinnate leaves with numerous filiform 

 segments and bright red or sometimes white flowers 1 in. in diam. when 

 expanded. Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 59. QuamocUt pinnata, Boj. Hort. 

 Maurit. (1837) p. 224. Ijjomcea QuamocUt, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 159; 

 Bot. Mag. (1794) t. 244 ; C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. PI. B. I. v. 4, p. 199; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 171 & Gard. in Ind. 

 ed. 5, p. 397. — Vern. Kdmalatd; Ganesh-pushi^a. 



Oeder LXXXIX. SOLANACE^, 



Herbs or shrubs, erect, trailing or scandent (rarely trees). Leaves 

 alternate, often in unequal pairs, rarely clustered, never truly opposite, 

 entire, lobed or pinnate ; stipules 0. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite 

 (very rarely dioecious), in lateral terminal axillary or extra-axillary 

 cymes, or on solitary or clustered pedicels ; bracts and bracteoles 0. 

 Calyx i\iferior ; limb usually 5 (rarely 3-10) -lobed or -toothed, usually 

 persistent, often accrescent in fruit. Corolla infundibuliform, cam- 

 panulate or rotate, often plicate ; lobes 5 (rarely 10) or limb subentire. 

 Stamens 5, on the corolla-tube ; anthers ovate or oblong, dehiscing by 

 apical pores or longitudinally. Ovary 2-celled or imperfectly 1- or 4- 

 celled (rarely 3-5-celled) ; ovules many, on prominent peltate placentas ; 

 style linear ; stigma capitate or very shortly lobed. Pruit a berry or a 

 circumscissile or valved capsule, usually 2-celled, many-seeded. Seeds 

 compressed, discoid, or subreniform, with peripheric embryo, or seeds 

 scarcely compressed with a straight embryo. — Distrib. Warmer regions 

 of the whole world ; genera about 70 ; species about 1250. 



Fruit a beriy. 



Corolla plaited or the lobes valvate. 



Anthers opening by apical pores 1. Solaxum. 



Anthers dehiscing longitudinally. 



Calyx in fruit much euhirged, overtopping the berry. 



Pedicels solitary 2. Ptivsams. 



Flowers clustered, sessile or nearly so o. Vs^vvwxsw. 



