844 Solanaceae. 
Flor. d'Eg., p. 262. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., Supplem. 
p. 769. — Schenk Plant. Spec. Aeg., p. 24. —- Solanum coagulans 
var. griseum Dun. in DC. Prodrom. XIII, fase. I, p. 369. — Solanum 
sanctum L. Spec. Plant. II, p.269. — Solanum subexarmatum Dun. 
in DC. Prodrom. XIU, fase. I, p.367. — A shrub 90 cm to 1,50 m 
high, with dense stellate tomentum on the branches, petioles, underside 
of leaves and outside of calyx and corolla. Branches terete; spines 
few or many, 5 mm long, curved, broad at the base. Leaves ovate 
or ovate-elliptic, sinuate, 10 by 5—8 cm; obtuse, green and minutely 
stellately hairy on the upper surface, unequal at the base, sometimes 
spiny on the midrib and nerves; petiole 30 mm long. Flowers 
solitary or few together (the lower only fertile), cernuous; peduncle 
short. Calyx spiny outside, cupshaped; lobes lanceolate, acuminate. 
Corolla purple or white, 1—2'/, cm in diam.; lobes ovate, acute. 
Filaments very short; anthers 57/, mm long, oblong, pores small, 
terminal. Style longer than the stamens. Fruit subglobose, 27/, «m 
in diam., yellow. — Flow. March to April. 
N. v. Siut; Luksor; Kom Ombo; Aswan. — O. Dakhel; Great 
Oasis. — D. a. mer. Kene; Qoseyr. 
Local name: Kaderanbes. 
Also in South and Tropical Africa extending through Arabia to Seind 
and the Pundjab. 
1184. (5.) Solanum Melongena L. Spec. Plant. 1(1753), p. 186. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.112 no. 754. — Solanum 
esculentum Dun. Hist. Solan., p.208 tab.3 and Dun. in DC. Prodrom. XIII, 
fasc. 1, p. 355. — A robust herb or almost a shrub, spiny. Branches 
terete, usually dark purple, clothed with sessile stellate hairs. 
Leaves ovate, repand or sinuate, acuminate, unequal at the base, 
9—18 cm long, 6—10 cm wide, stellately tomentose on both surfaces, 
unarmed, rarely spiny; petiole 2 cm long, spiny. Flowers solitary, 
or few in a cyme with the lowest alone fertile, 5--9-merous. 
Calyx often spiny, 8 mm in diam., enlarging in fruit; lobes un- 
equal, linear-lanceolate. Corolla violet-purple, 2—2'/, cm in diam., 
stellately hairy on both surfaces; lobes 8—10 mm long, triangular, 
acute. Filaments short; anthers 5—8 mm long, oblong or oblong- 
lanceolate, pores apical, small. Style 5—8 mm long, slightly curved, 
stellately hairy at the base. Berry oblong or slightly enlarged above, 
12 cm long, blackish-purple; placentas fleshy. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. M. p. N. d. N.f. N. v. O. D. a. sept. Cultivated abun- 
dantly in all parts and often naturalized. 
Local name: beydingén aswad (Khrenberg); generally; beydingan. 
Also known from Tropical Africa. 
