2GG LXXXIX. SOLAXACE.I. 



enlarged calyx. Seeds -^q- in. in diam., glabrous. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 236 ; 

 Trim. Ti. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 235 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) 

 p. 173: "Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 3, p. 273. — Flowers: June. 

 Ver>'. B7iuiringa7ii; KcUeringani. 



KoNKAN : Lawl; Elephanta, Graham. Deccan : common; Poona, Cooke\, Wood- 

 rowl Sind: Woodi-ow. — Distrib. Tlirougliout India; Ceylon, S.E. Asia, Malaya, 

 Tropical Australia, and Polynesia. 



The root is ujuch used in Hindu medicine. The fruit is sometimes eaten. See 

 Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



8. Solanum giganteum, Jacq. Collect, v. 4 (1790) p. 125. A shrub 

 sometimes reaching a heiglit of 12 ft., armed with broadly triangular 

 prickles which are yellow towards the point and usually tomentose at 

 the base ; young branches, inflorescence, and underside of leaves clothed 

 with dense close white stellate tomentum. Leaves 5-9 by 1^-2 in., 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute, entire, glabrous above when mature, base 

 tapering into the petiole, often unequal-sided ; main nerves about 12, 

 impressed on the upper surface; petioles 1-1 g in. long. Flowers 

 in dense lateral (often apparently terminal) paniculately corymbose 

 cymes; peduncles stout, ^1 in. long; pedicels -|— ^ in. long. Calyx 

 4- in. long, densely floccosely tomentose ; teeth thick, triangular, 

 j!g^— Jq in. long. Corolla bluish -purple, 3 in. long, deeply divided ; 

 tube -^ in. long ; lobes oblong-lanceolate, subacute, tomentose outside, 

 glabrous inside. Filaments very short. Ovary glabrous ; style glabrous. 

 Berry \ in. in diam., supported on the slightly enlarged calyx, red 

 when ripe. Seeds g in. in diam., minutely muriculate. Fl. B. I. v. 4, 

 p. 233; Grab. Cat. p. 138 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 175 ; Wight, Icon. t. 893 ; 

 Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 233 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 253 : Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 173.— Flowers : Jan.-Mar. 

 A'eex. Kutri ; Cliunna. 



Iligher hills of the Presidency. Deccan : hills about Par, Graham; Harishchan- 

 dragad, Gi/jso7i ex Graham; Mahableshwar, very common, ('ookel, Woodrow ; hills 

 4U0O ft., Law I S. M. Country: Castlerock, 'Hhival; Belgaum, Rifchie, 1302! — 

 Distrib. India (W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



9. Solanum indicum, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 187. A much- 

 branched undershnib 1-5 ft. high, very prickly ; prickles large, with a 

 long compressed base, sharp, often slightly recurved ; stem stout, often 

 purple; branches covered with minule stellate hairs. Leaves 2-6 by 

 1-3 in., ovate in outline, acute, subentire or with a few large ti'iangular- 

 ovate subacute lobes, sparsely prickly on both sides, clothed above with 

 simple hairs from bulbous bases intermixed with small stellate ones, 

 covered below with small stellate hairs ; base cordate, cuneate or truncate, 

 often unequal-sided ; petioles |-1 in. long, prickly. Flowers in racemose 

 extra-axillary cymes; peduncles short; pedicels |-| in. long, stellately 

 hairy and prickly. Calyx | in. long, stellately hairy ; teeth triangular, 

 -^ in. long. Corolla ^ in. long, pale-purple, clothed outside with darker 

 purple stellate hairs ; lobes j- in. long, deltoid-ovate, acute. Filaments 

 very short, almost 0; anthers oblong-lanceolate, opening by small pores. 

 Ovary often hairy at the top ; style stellately hairy, curved at the apex. 

 Berry 3 in. in diam., globose, dark-yellow when ripe, glabrous or sometimes 

 with a few stellate hairs at the apex. Seeds -^ in. in diam., minutely 



