Nieandra. — Solanum. 841 
Flor. d’Eg., p. 262. — Plants nearly glabrous. Stems 30—90 cm 
high or sometimes somewhat more, widely branching; leaf-blades 
ovate, oval or oblong, 5—15 cm long, angulately lobed or sinuate, 
narrowed into margined petioles; pedicels puberulent, recurving; 
calyx 1,5 cm long becoming 3,5 cm long, reticulated; sepals broadly 
ovate, narrowed into slender tips. Corolla blue or violet, 2,5 cm 
broad; limb nearly entire; berries 1,5—2 cm in diameter. — Flow. 
March to April. 
M. ma. (?) ,,Stazione mediterranea“ Figari-Bey: Stud. sull 
‘Egitto J, p. 225. 
Also known from Tropical South Africa. 
485. (2.) Solanum Linn. 
Calyx with 5, rarely with 4 or more than 5 teeth or lobes. 
Corolla rotate or very broadly campanulate, with 5 or rarely 4 
angles or lobes, folded in the bud. Filaments usually very short, 
rarely as long as the anthers; anthers oblong or linear, erect and 
connivent, either parallel or more frequently tapering upwards and 
forming a cone round the style, opening at the top in pores or 
transverse slits, rarely continued down the sides of the anthers, 
without any prominent connectivum between the cells. Fruit a 
berry, usually 2-celled rarely 4-celled (the cells divided by a spurious 
dissepiment) or in species or varieties several-celled. Seeds several, 
flattened, with a curved or spiral embryo surrounding a fleshy albumen. 
— Herbs shrubs or rarely low soft-wooded trees, either unarmed or 
with prickles scattered on the branches, on the principal veins of 
the leaves, especially on the upper surface and in some species 
also on the inflorescence and calyces, straight and slender in most 
Egyptian species, stout and recurved in some others. Leaves alter- 
nate, but often in pairs, a smaller one being developed in the axil 
of the larger one, entire or irregularly toothed lobed or divided. 
Flowers normally in terminal centrifugal cymes; but, owing to the 
rapid development of the branch, the inflorescence becomes usually 
lateral and very often, by the abortion of one branch, reduced 
to a simple unilateral apparently centripetal raceme or to a single 
flower. Corolla usually blue purplish or white or in other species 
yellow, always tomentose outside in the species where the tomen- 
tum is stellate, but usually only on the part exposed in the bud, 
with the induplicate margins glabrous. Style frequently curved to 
one side, the stigma slightly dilated, entire or 2-lobed. 
A very large genus, spread over the warmer and temperate regions of 
the globe, but most abundant in tropical America. 
