2{JS LXXXIX. SOLAXACE-i:. 



Seeds | in. in diaui., slightly pitted. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 236 ; Grali. Cat. 

 p. 138 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 175 ; Wight, Icon. t. 854 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, 

 p. 236 ; Woodr. in Joiirn. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 173 ; Watt, Diet. 

 Ecou. Prod. V. 6, part 3, p. 264. — Flowers: Dec-Jan. 



DiTCAN : Bijapur, Cooke'.; Ahmednagar, Coolcel S. M. Country: Badami, 

 Kanitkar], Wuodrow; Dharwar, Woodrow. Gujarat: Gibioi ex Graham, Woodrow ; 

 common in hedges, Bahell tf' Gibsoti. — Distkib. India (W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon, 

 Malay Peninsula. 



12. Solanum albicaule, Koischy, ex Dunal, in DC. Prodr. v. 13, 

 part 1 (1852) p. 204. A very prickly undershrub ; stem woody, 1 ft. and 

 more high ; branches elongate, terete, and, as well as the leaves beneath, 

 petioles, peduncles, pedicels, calyx and coi^olla (outside) hoary with 

 stellate tomentum ; prickles numerous, compressed or sometimes conical, 

 very sharp and recurved at the apex from a broad base, usually tomentose 

 in the basal part. Leaves solitary or the upper twin, one of the pair 

 shorter than the other, |-1^ by |-1 in., variable in shape, ovate-oblong 

 or subpanduriform, acute or obtuse, entire or slightly lobate, softly hairy 

 above, white with dense stellate tomentum beneath, base subcordate ; 

 main nerves 2-4 pairs ; petioles ^-^ in. long, rarely prickly. Flowers in 

 racemose cymes ; peduncles short ; pedicels i— g- in. long, usually 

 unarmed. Calyx densely woolly-tomentose, ^-\ in. long, cyathiform ; 

 lobes equalling the tube, triangular, acute. Corolla purple, stellately 

 pubescent outside ; tube very short, J^ in. long ; lobes nearly | in. long, 

 lanceolate-oblong, acute, with a strong mid-nerve. Filaments very short, 

 almost ; anthers narrowly oblong-lanceolate, \ in. long, opening by 

 small pores. Ovary glabrous; style glabrous, curved at the top. Berry 

 \-\ in. in diam., globose, glabrous, yellow. Seeds ^ in. in diam., 

 subreniform, slightly tuberculate. Solanum sindimm, Prain, in Journ. 

 Asiat. Soc. Beng. v. 65 (1896) p. 542. 



Bare in the Bombay Presidency, occurring only iu Sind. There is but one sheet in 

 Herb. Kew., the s]jecimens on which were collected by me near Karachi, in 1891. — 

 DisTRiB. Arabia, Tropical Africa. 



13. Solanum gracilipes, Dcne.hiJacqnem. Von. 5oi. (1844)p. 113, 

 t. 119. An undershrub with slender branches; stems stellately ashy- 

 tomentose ; branches terete, sparingly prickly ; prickles small, sharp, 

 straight or recurved, not compressed, tomentose at the base. Leaves 

 small, rotund-ovate, obtuse, f-lg in. long and nearly as broad as long, 

 minutely stellately hairy on both sides, sometimes subglabrous, base sub- 

 cordate, truncate, or cuneate ; main nerves 3-4 pairs ; petiolts slender, 

 ^-1| in. long, stellately tomentose, not prickly. Flowers in extra- 

 axillary or subaxillary few-flowered fascicles sometimes reduced to a 

 single flower; pedicels filiform, f-ls in. long, stellately tomentose, not 

 pricklv. Calyx ^ in. long, stellately pubescent ; lobes as long as the 

 lube, linear from a triangular base and with a broad sinus between, 

 elongating in fruit. Corolla | in. long; lobes \ in. long, triangular- 

 ovate, acute, stellately ])ubescent outside, reticulately veined. Filaments 

 very short, almost 0; anthers ;j^ in. long, linear-oblong, opening by small 

 pores. Ovary globose-ovoid, glabrous or with a few stt'llate hairs at its 

 apex ; style glabrous. Beriy :j in. in diam., globose, glabrous. Seeds 

 I in. in diam., minutely tuberculate. Fl. B. L v. 4, p. 237 ; Aitch. Ph. & 



