Solanum. | Solanacez. 207 
Calyx pilose with 5-10 short teeth, which are usually 
reflexed in fruit ; branchlets usually round sometimes 
zigzag ; leaves membraneous, very pilose when young 
sparsely so when old, often with a few prominent 
acute teeth on the upper half; berries red . 2 . §. biflorum. 
Wight Ic. t. 1397 is S. denticulatum in Gamble’s sense. These 
differences do not appear to be sufficiently consistent. in Ceylon to 
separate the species, which should probably be called S. biflorum. 
4a. S. AURICULATUM Ait.. Hort. Kew, ed. 1, I, p. 246 (1789). 
A large shrub, about 5 ft. high, densely covered with 
stellate hairs; leaf lamina 5-8 in. long, elliptic-lanceolate, 
acuminate, velvety above, tomentose with stellate hairs be- 
neath; petiole up to 1 in. long; fils. in large corymbose 
cymes; berry + in. covered with stellate hairs, yellow. 
Low country, rather common. Fl. purple. 
A native of Tropical Asia, according to the Index Kewensis, but it 
is not mentioned in the FI. Brit. Ind. 
Page 234.—For S. ciliatum Lam. read: 
6a. S. ACULEATISSIMUM Jacq. Collect. I, p. 100 (1786); Clarke in 
Fl. Ind. IV, p. 237 (1883) ; Gamble Fl. Madr. p. 939 (1923). S. ciliatum 
Itanak. fh, 11,.p, 21 (1793). 
Perennial herb, about 14 ft. high; stem with numerous 
prickles; leaf lamina 3-4 in. long ovate, lobed, prickly; 
petiole 14-3 in. long; fls. in 1-2 fld. cymes; cal. prickly; 
berry about 14 in. diam., at first green with white blotches 
finally red. | 
A common weed by roadsides and in waste places up to 4oo0 ft. 
Peradeniya (1887); Hakgala (1906); Maturata (1906). FI. Feb., May, 
Sept. ; white. ., 
Tropical Asia, Africa and America. Native of Brazil according to 
Trimen, of Malaya according to Gamble. 
7. S. torvum Sw. Gona-batu, S. 
7a. S. HISPIDUM Pers. Syn. I, p. 278 (1805). 
An erect perennial, about 8 ft. high; stem with scattered 
thorns; 1. about 8 in. long, shallowly lobed, thickly covered 
with ferrugineous stellate hairs beneath; fis. in many-fid. 
cymes, white; fruit glabrous. 
Hakgala, escape by the roadside (1926). Fls. May. 
Native of Peru. 
S. ATROPURPUREUM Schrank in Syll. Ratisb. I, p. 200 (1824). 
Without exact locality, Oct. 1912 (W. Molegode). 
_ Native of Brazil. 
Page 235.—For S. xanthocarpum Schrad. & Wendl. read: 
S. surattense Burm. f. Fl. Ind. p. 57 (1768); Merr. in Phil. 
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Journ. Sc. XIX, p. 377 (1921). S. xanthocarpum Schrad. & Wendl. 
Sert. I, p.8 (1795). 
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