97. SOLANACEJE. [5. Solanum. 



3. S. Seaforthianum, Andrews. The Potato-creeper. 



A pretty scandent shrub with the lower leaves ternatisect with 

 lanceolate acuminate lobes, the upper simple lanceolate undulate. 

 Flowers blue or flesh coloured in axillary cymose panicles. 



Freqiient in gardens. Native of the West Indies. 



Two other plants ai-e sometimes called Potato-creeper, viz. S. Jasmivoideg, Paxt., 

 with ovate or ovate-lanceolate subcordate obtuse or acuminate leaves often 

 unequally 2-5-partite, or lower 3-foliolate, and panicles of Avhite or pale-blue small 

 fragrant flowers on slender pedicels. 



A native of Brazil. 



-S'. Wendlandii, Hool-.f., with a few short hooked prickles on the stems, branches 

 and petioles. Leaves very variable in size, lower 6-10", pinnate below and 

 pinnatifid above, with 4-6 lobes or leaflets each side which are ovate or oblong. 

 Corolla very pale lilac-blue 2-5" diam. in cymes 6" or more. 



A very handsome species, native of Costa Rica. 



4. S. Yerbascifolium, L. Bondu, M. ; Arosa, Urusa, Beng. 



A large shrub 6-20 ft. high with white or buff stellately tomentose 

 unarmed stems and branches, large lanceolate or elliptic acuminate 

 leaves 6-12" long, stellately tomentose beneath and less so above, 

 and white flowers "To" diam. in long-peduncled cymes 2-5" broad. 

 Berries yellow, stellate when young, "3" diam. 



Northern Tract from Champaran ! to Purneah ; Waste ground and scrub jungle 

 Ranchi r nd Porahat plateau ! Fl., Fr. Aug.-Dec. Evergreen. 



L, sometimes ovate or ovate-lanceolate 3-6" broad with petioles 1-2". Corymbs 

 terminal, becoming lateral in fruit, tomentose, on stout peduncles 1-4" in flowfr or 

 3-4" in fruit. Calyx •25-'3" long with ovate or deltoid teeth, campanulate and 

 somewhat enlarged and embracing the fruit. Corolla -4" long with very short 

 tube, lobes stellate-pubescent. Stamens on the throat, anthers short oblong '12" 

 long, scarcely exceeding the flattened filaments, not attenuate, opening by a 

 short apical slit ultimately longitudinally dehiscent. 



5. S. giganteum, Jaaj. 



A large handsome shrub 10-20 ft. high with Avhite stellately mealy 

 or tomentose more or less prickly stems and branches and large 

 oblong-lanceolate acuminate leaves 6-10" long, beautifully white 

 beneath, white tomentose both sides when young glabrescent above. 

 Fls. blue •"th" diam. in dense corymbose panicles l"o-3" broad. 

 Berries scarlet glabrous, •2o--3" diam. 



Mayurbhanj, Meghasani, 3500 ft. ! Fl. March-April. Fr. May. 



Base of leaves rounded in our specimens, ctmeate in Madras' ones, sec. n. about 

 12, oblique and attenuate. Petiole "75 — 1-.5", rather slender, white with stellate 

 tomentum as are the cymes. Pedicels slender, •2-'5". Calyx "l-lo" long with 

 lanceolate lobes somewhat enlarged in fruit, white-tomentose. Corolla with lanceo- 

 late acuminate lobes white outside. Anthers yellow, elongate and attenuate above, 

 with apical pores. Ovary piiberulous. Seeds "12" diam. glabrous. 



The tomentum is much finer and more mealj' than in ^. verbascifolium, in which 

 the individual stellate hairs are verj- large. 



6. S. ferox, L. 



A large striking coarse herb or undershrub 2-4 ft. high with 

 stellately woolly-tomentose and prickly stems, the stellate hairs large 

 and stalked. Leaves elliptic-ovate, 5-10" long and 4-6" broad with 

 large triangular teeth or lobes, prickly and densely lanate and with 

 large stellate hairs beneath, and almost as much above. Flowers 

 about "6" diam. in very short lateral, not axillaiy, cymes. Calyx 

 with broadly ovate or triangular lobes densely hirsute. Corolla 



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