1. Solanuh.] 76. SOLANACE&. 



Fls. white. L. not prickly on the nerves . 4. torvum.. 



Fls. blue. Nerves prickly. Peduncles usually 

 5-many-fld. 5. indicum. 



Fls. blue. Nerves prickly or not. Peduncles 

 1-5-fld. 6. Melongena. 



1- S. nigrum, L. Makoi, H. ; the Black Nightshade. 



An erect herb 1-4 ft. high with ovate or oblong sinuate toothed or 

 lobed leaves, small white flowers \-\'' diam. in cymose umbels on extra- 

 axillary peduncles and small black terries J v diam. 



A common weed. Fls. and fr. more or less all the year round. 



The berries are said to be eaten. 



2. S- verbascifolium. L. Bondu, M. ; Arosa, Urusa, 

 Beng. 



A large shrub 6-15 ft. densely stellately tomentose all 

 over, with corymbose cymose panicles of white flowers £' 

 diam. and globose yellow berries §* diam. seated on the persis- 

 tent campanulate tomentose calyx. 



Waste ground and scrub jungle. Porahat plateau. Fls. Aug.-lfov, Ft. 

 Od.-Dec. Evergreen. 



L. ovate to ovate-lanceolate acute or acuminate 6-12" by 3-6" softly 

 tomentose. Corymbs 3-5" diam. Peduiicles stout 1-4" in fl., 3-4'' in 

 fr. Calyx in fl. {'' with teeth half as long as tube, enlarged in fr. 



3. S. xanthocarpum, Schrad. Raugaini janum, 8. 

 RiEgni, W. ; Kantakari, Beng. 



A procumbent very prickly rather pretty herb with 

 glabreecent bright-green very prickly leaves copiously armed 

 with straight §" long spines. Fls. deep-blue 1-1 5" diam. 

 with bright-yellow anthers. 



Common in open waste ground. Fls., Fr. Dec- June. 



L. sinuate or sub-pinnatifid. Berry £-§* diam. green or yellow when 

 ripe, often variegated with white or green. 



The fruit, ooiled in ghee, is given for cough and toothache, Campbell. 



4. S. torvum, Swartz. Hanjad, K. ; Bergar betahet', 8. 

 A tomeutose shrub 4-8 ft. high with entire or shallowly 



lobed leaves not prickly on the nerves and lateral dense usual- 

 ly bifurcate cymes of white flowers. 



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