6. Ltcopersicum.] 97. SOLANACEjE. 



6. LYCOPERSICUM, Miller. 



Pubescent herbs with pinnate leaves, pinnse toothed or lyrate. 

 Flowers mostly yellowish in feAv-fld. peduncled cymes. Sepals 5-6. 

 Coi'olla rotate, limb 5-6-fid plaited in bud. Anthers long and 

 narrow, gradually narrowed from base to apex, connivent in a cone, 

 opening by slits. Ovary 2-many-celled. Seeds many, compressed, 

 papillose, embryo curved. 



Lycopersicum is sometimes included in Solanum as a section of 

 that genus. 



1. L. e»ei'.lentum, Mill. Syn. Solunnm lycopersicum, L. The Tomato. 



Cultivated throughout the province. Native of South America. 



The fruits in cultivation have often very numerous cells and placenta?. 



7. DATURA, L. 



Small trees, shrubs or coarse rank-scented herbs with simple often 

 large, often sinuate lobed or deeply toothed leaves and large or very 

 large solitary purple or white flowers. Calyx elongate tubular,. 

 5-lobed, often 5-ribbed. Corolla tubular-funnel-shaped, sometimes 

 somewhat zygomorphous. Stamens not longer than the corolla. 

 Ovary 2- or spurioiisly 4-celled, style filiform. Fruit capsular (in 

 the Indian species) or baccate, often spinous, 4-valved or irregularly 

 breaking up. Seeds very many, compressed, rugose or dotted. 



A. Flowers erect or inclined. Fruit capsular :— 



Fls. 2'5-5". Capsule ovoid erect regularly 4- valved . . \. stramonium. 

 Fls, 5-7". Fruit globose, irregularly breaking up . . 2. fastnosa. 



B. Flowers drooping. Fruit baccate {Brugmansia) . . .3. maveoleiis. 



1. D. stramonium, L. Syn. D. tatula, Willcl. ; D. Wallichii, Dunal ; 

 Datura, Vern. ; The Thorn A^Dple. 



A somewhat coarse annual 1-2*5 ft. with green or purplish stem, 

 elliptic or ovate nearly glabrous leaves 2-5" long, sinuate or lobulate, 

 with large triangular teeth and suberect white or purp>le flowers 

 2' 5-5" long. Capsule ovoid, erect, 1-5", prickly, splitting regularly 

 at the top into 4 valves. Seeds black suborbicular, subcompressed, 

 •1--13" broad, minutely dotted. 



Occasional in waste land ! Ranchi ghats, Bishanpur ! FL, Fr. r.s. and c.s. 



Leaves somewhat hispidulous on the nerves beneath. Petiole -3-1". Calyx 1"5", 

 narrowly tubular, 5-angled, teeth acutely lanceolate puberulous. Corolla lobes 

 erect with cuspidate tips, so that it is usually only about 1'' diam. Peduncle "25" 

 in fruit. Spines on fruit very sharp, 



Var. a tatula, Dunal. Syn. D. tatula, Willd. 



The flowers are usually only 3*5-4", calyx 1'5". Lobes of leaf nearly always 

 acute. Prickles on capsule sharp, "l-'S" long. Common. 



Var, 13 Wallichii. Syn. D. Wallichii, Dunal. 



Stems angular. Branches and leaves farinose or pulverulent-pubescent. L. 

 ovate 4-5" sinuate-dentate with the teeth acute. Peduncle •3-*6". Calyx 2" with 

 the lobes short lanceolate or sometimes "4" long eciual, tube pentagonal. Corolla 

 6", yellowish white, 2'3" diam. with caudate lobes •2-'3" long. Capsule as in tatula. 



Bankipur, Kew Herb. ! Fl. March. 



This appears in size of flower to come near to the next species. 



The true D. stramonium is a hill plant, larger and coar.ser and with bigger flowers,, 

 up to G" but the size of the flowers is rather variable. They ai-e said always to be 

 white while those of var. tatula are said to be always purple. This, however, is. 



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