208 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



3. WITHANIA. Unarmed shrubs, otherwise much as the last. 



4. DATURA. Large, coarse herbs, calyx and corolla long- 

 tubed, stigma 2-lobed. 



1. SOLANUM. 

 Note. All the species here given are prickly, except the first. 



1. S. nigrum. Black nightshade. An erect leafy plant, un- 

 armed, leaves ovate waved or bluntly lobed, flowers small, 

 more or less nnbelled, drooping, white, calyx teeth small, berry 

 round, black, sometimes red or yellow. Glidti, Kdmain, Mdko, 

 Kakmachi. 



Not in D. Poona, Mahableshwar, etc. Thoughout India (jff.). 

 It is common in England. " This very common plant has followed 

 the footsteps of man over all the world. Lindley. 



2. S. giganteum. A shrub, leaves smooth, variously and 

 irregularly lobed and waved, mealy beneath, as are the young 

 shoots, flowers purple or violet in cymes, berries red, size of a 

 pea, in handsome bunches. Channajhad, Kutri. 



Mahableshwar, very common, and the higher Ghants. 



3. S. Indicum. Tall and shrubby, prickly all over, leaves 

 greyish sinuate or lobed, sometimes pinnatifid downy, flowers 

 purple in racemes, berry round, size of a gooseberry ; at first 

 variegated with light and dark green, finally yellow. Dorlin, 

 chinchurdi, ringani, Ihui-vdngi. 



Common in most parts. Throughout tropical India, very common 

 (H.). 



4. S. xanthocarpum (S. Jacquinii, D.). A spreading herb, 

 procumbent, prickly all over, leaves ovate oblong, pinnatifid 

 with acute segments, more or less hairy, flowers solitary or in 

 racemes like those of the last, fruit yellow, size of a plum. 

 Bhuiringani, Kdnteringani. 



As common as the last throughout India (H.). The prickles of this 

 are said to be straight, and of Nos. 3 and 5 curved, but I do not think 

 that this can be depended on. 



5. S. trilobatum. A climbing under-shrub, all prickly, 

 leaves smooth, variously and irregularly lobed and waved, 

 flowers purple, berry red, size of a currant. Mothi ringani. 



Hedges, Guzerat and the Deccan. 



S. verlascifolium, a shrub or small tree, mealy in many parts, leaves 

 large, ovate entire, woolly (like Mullein), flowers small, white in 



