Lvx..\:ix. soL.vyACE.?;. 205 



angular (not discoid), reticulately pitted, yellow. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 231 ; 

 Wight, Icon. t. 1397 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 232; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat, V. 12 (1898) p. 173. — Flowers : in flower and fruit 

 throughout most of the year. 



Deccan ; Mahableshwar, very common, Cookel, Woodrow, — Distrib. India 

 (mountains of the Western Peninsula) ; Cej-lon, Malay Islands. 



6. Solanum ferox, Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2 (1762) p. 267. Stem 

 herbaceous, stout, 2-4 ft. high, densely clothed with long coarse, often 

 stalked, usually fulvous stellate hairs, and copiously armed with straight 

 slender prickles. Leaves usually 2 at a node and unequal, 6-11 by 

 4-8 in., broadly elliptic in outline, sinuately or pinnately cut into few 

 short triangular lobes, softly stellately fulvous-hairy on both sides (very 

 densely so beneath), armed with long erect yellow slender prickles on 

 the nerves on both sides, base cordate, truncate, or more or less acute, 

 often unequal-sided ; main nerves 6-8 pairs ; petioles 1|-2| in. long, 

 prickly and densely fulvous-hairy. Flowers solitary or in 2-6-flowered 

 leaf-opposed densely hairy cymes ; peduncles very short ; pedicels \-^ 

 in. long, densely stellately fulvous-hairy and usually with a few prickles. 

 Calyx carapanulate, g in. long, divided about |-way down, densely 

 stellately fulvous-hairy, slightly enlarged in fruit ; teeth deltoid, acute. 

 Corolla I in. long, 5-partite ; tube very short, ^ in. long ; lobes ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute, densely hairy outside. Anthers ses-*ile or nearly so, 

 linear-lanceolate, ^ in. long, opening by small pores. Ovary densely 

 hairy with long hairs ; style glabrous. Berry globose, |-1^ in. in diam., 

 densely covered with loug fulvous hairs. Seeds Jq in. in diam., faintly 

 rugose with concentric rings. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 233 ; Grab. Cat. p. 130 ; 

 Wight, Icou. t. 1399; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 233; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 173; Watt, Diet. Ecoa. Prod. v. 6, part 3, 

 p. 257. 



Eare. Konkan: S. Konkan, Nimmo ex Graham. S, M. Country: 40 miles west 

 of Belgaum, Woodrow. — 'Diu'vri'R. India (Assam, Birma, W. Peninsula) ; Oeylou, 

 China. 



7. Solanum xanthocarpum, ScJirad. 4' Wendl. Sert. v. 1 (1795) 

 p. 8, t. 2. A very prickly diffuse bright-green perennial herb, some- 

 what woody at the base ; stem somewhat zigzag ; branches numerous, 

 the j^ounger ones clothed with dense stellate tomentum ; prickles com- 

 pressed, straight, yellow, glabrous and shining, often exceeding ^ in. 

 long. Leaves 2-4 by 1-2| in., ovate or elliptic, sinuate or subpinnatifid, 

 obtuse or subacute, stellately hairy on both sides (especially so beneath), 

 sometimes becoming nearly glabrous in age, armed on the midrib and 

 often on the nerves with long yellow sharp prickles, base usually 

 rounded and unequal-sided ; petioles ^-1 in. long, stellately hairy and 

 prickly. Flowers in extra-axillary few-flowered cymes sometimes 

 reduced to a single flower ; peduncles short ; pedicels short, curved, 

 stellately hairy. Calyx nearly g in. long, densely hairy and prickly; 

 tube short, globose ; lobes -^-^ in. long, linear-lanceolate, acute, prickly 

 outside. Corolla purple, f m. long ; lobes deltoid, acute, hairy outside. 

 Filaments ^ in. long, glabrous ; anthers ^ in. long, oblong-lanceolate, 

 opening by small pores. Ovary ovoid, glabrous ; style glabrous. Berry 

 ^-| in. in diam., yellow, or white with green veins, surrounded by the 



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