7£. SOLANACE&. [1. Soiant/m. 



flowers, more rarely all the flowers solitary or cluster- 

 ed ; bracts and bracteoles 0. Calyx inferior usually per- 

 sistent and often larger in fruit. Corolla faunel-shaped, 

 rotate or campanulate, limb sometimes sub-entire, petals 

 usually 5. St. 5 on the tube, anthers dehiscing by apical 

 pores or longitudinally. Ovary normally 2-celled ; style 

 linear ; ovules very many oil prominent peltate placental. 

 Fruit baccate or capsular, usually 2-celled (4-celled in Datura) 

 and many-seeded. Seeds compressed, embryo curved round 

 the albumen (straight in Tobacco). 



Besides those described, the following well-known plants belong 

 to this order: — Solarium tuberosum, L.. the Potato; Lycopersi- 

 cum esculentum, Mill... the Tomato, which often has numerous 

 placentas in cultivation; several varieties of Capsicum, Chillies and 

 Nepal pepper, some of which are naturalized ; Physalis peruviana, L n 

 the Cape Gooseberry; Physilis minima, L., a wild plant, can be 

 recognised by its similarly inflated calyx ^ Nicotiana Tabacum, Ir, 

 the Tobacco, is cultivated in Chota Nagpur on specially manured plots of 

 land near the homestead only,- or down near the edges of rivers. Its Kol 

 name " sukul " merely means smoke. The wrapper of the Kol cigarette 

 or " fihr " is a Sal leaf. 



Corolla rotate. Anthers opening by pores. Fruit a berry. 1. Bolanum. 

 Corolla tubular-funnel-shaped. Fruit capsular . . .2. Datura. 



1. Solanuiii, L. 



Shrubs or herbs, rarely small trees, often spinous, 

 pubescence often stellate. L. sometimes in sub- unilateral 

 pairs, Fls. in dichasial or sympodial cymes. Calyx 5- or 

 10-lobed. Corolla rotate, limb usually 5- rarely 4-6-merous, 

 plaited in bud. Anthers conniving in a cone, opening by 

 pores or short slits. Seeds discoid. 



I. Unarmed, Fls. sub-umbellate or corymbose. 



Herbaceous or suffruticose, glabrous or nearly so 1. nigrum. 



A large shrub, densely stellate-tomentose » . 2. verbascifolium 



II. Armed, rarely unarmed in S. Melongena, cymes 

 sympodial, or fls. Bub-solitary. «ass=- 



A diffuse very prickly herb ... .3. xanthocarpum. 



Shrubs or undershruba 



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