Solan um,] SOLJNJCFM. 123 



LXXVIII-SOLANACEJE. 



Herbs, shrubs or rarely small trees. Leaves alternate, often in 

 unequal pairs, rarely clustered, never opposite, entire h.bed or pin- 

 natisect, stipules none. Flowers regular or rarely 2-lipped, usuallv 

 hermaphrodite, very rarely dioecious, arranged in terminal or 

 lateral axillary or extra-axillary cymes, or on solitary or clustered 

 pedicels, bracts and bracteoles none. Calyx inferior, limb 

 usually 5-lobed or -toothed, persistent and often much enlarged in 

 froit. Corolla funnel-shaped, campanulate or rotate, often plicate ; 

 lobes 5, rarely 10, or the limb suhentire. Stamens on the corolla- 

 tube, 5, or fewer in zygomorphic flowers : anthers dehiscing by 

 apical pores or longitudinally. Ovary 2-celled, or imperfectly 1- or 

 4-celled, rarely 3-5-celled ; style linear, stigma capitate or shortly 

 lobed ; ovules usually many, on prominently peltate placentas. 

 Fruit a berry or a circumscissile or valved usuallv 2-celled capsule. 

 Seeds many, compreseed or subreniform, embryo (in the indige- 

 nous British Indian genera) curved— Sprcies about 1,400, in tropical 

 and subtropical regions of the world, but chiefly in Central and 

 South America. 



Fruit a berry : — 



Corolla rotate or campanulate, lobes plicate in 

 bud: — 



Anthers connivent in a cone, dehiscing by apical 



pores ; calyx small 1. Solantjm. 



Anthers not connivent, dehiscing longitudinally ; 



calyx much enlarged in fruit ... 2. Phtsalis. 

 Corolla urceolate, lobes valvate.in bud, calyx accre- 

 scent 3. Withania. 



Corolla funnel-shaped, lobes imbricate in bud, calyx 



not enlarging in fruit 4. Lycitjm. 



Fruit a capsule 5. Datura. 



1. SOLANUM, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 229. 



Herbs or shrubs, sometimes subscandent, rarely small trees, unarmed 

 or pricklv. Leaver alternate, or snbopposed in unequal pairs, 

 entire lcbed or pinnatifid. Flowers in dichotomous racemose 

 lateral or terminal cymes. Calyx 5- or 10-lobed, rarely 4-lobed or 

 snbentire ; accrescent or not in fruit. Corolla rotate, rarely cam- 

 panulate, tube short ; limb usually 5-lobed, plicate in bud. Stamens 

 5, rarely 4 or 6, attached to the corolla-throat, filaments short, anthers 

 oblong, often narrowed upwards, connivent in a cone, opening by 

 terminal pores or short slits. Ovary 2-celle4, rarely (in cultivated 



