568 SOLANACEJS. (NIGHTSHADE FAMILY). 



'bearing a fertile floicer, the others sterile; calyx-lobes triangular; co- 

 rolla .02 broad, purple; berry yellow^ .025 in diameter — Spring — 

 Lower Jordan Valley and wadies about Dead Sea. 



Solanum tuberosum, L. is the Potato, arabic6 Batata, and S. Me- 

 longena,L. the Byg-jylant, avsJoice Beitinjdn,or move correctlY Bddhinjdn. 

 Batatas edulis, Choisy, is the Sieeet Potato. 



2. PHYSAL-IS, L. Ground-Cherry. 



Calyx campanulate, 5-cleft, inflated in fruit, with connivent lobes, 

 enclosing the berry. Corolla somewhat rotate, limb plaited, 5-angled 

 or -cleft. Stamens inserted near base of corolla ; filaments thread-like ; 

 anthers splitting lengthwise. Ovary 2-celled; style filiform; stigma 

 bilamellate. Berry globular, much smaller than calyx — Perennial 

 herbs, with solitary, nodding flowers. 



P. Alkekengi. L. Alkekengi. It .4 to .6, sparingly hirtulous ; 

 root-stock creeping; stems erect, simple or sparingly branched. Leaves 

 petioled, ovate, acuminate, repand, the upper opposite. - Corolla 

 yellow, .012 long; fruiting calyx .03 long, .02 broad, red — Summer — 

 Kurd-Dagh to Marash, and northward. 



3. WITHANIA, Pauq. Withania. 'Vh'ub. 



Calyx campanulate, 5-cleft, inflated in fruit, enclosing the berry. 

 Corolla campanulate, 5-cleft, with valvate lobes. Stamens 5 (rarely 6- 

 7), inserted near base of corolla; filaments flat; anthers erect. Style 

 filiform, stigma short-bilamellate. Berry globular ; seeds kidney shap- 

 ed — Woolly shrubs, with upper leaves usually opposite. 



W. somnifera, L. SeJcrdn. Merjdn. 8emm,-el-Fdr. Khasraqut. 

 Fuqqueish. 5 .1 to 1.5, branches flexuous. Leaves ovate, .05 to .1 

 long. Flowers perfect, .005 long, very short-pedicelled, clustered in the 

 axils, rarely solitary; calyx-lobes linear, muticous; corolla greenish- 

 yellow; berry .005 in diameter, red, loosely contained in the .015 long, 

 membranous, closed calyx — Summer — Coast and lower mountains ; 

 Jordan Valley ; and northward and southward. 



4. LiYCIUlfl, L. Matrimony- Vine. ^Ausaj. 



Calyx cup-shaped or tubular, irregularly dentate or bilabiate, not 

 growing in fruit. Corolla funnel-shaped, with spreading limb and 

 imbricated lobes. Stamens inserted at middle of tube ; anthers with 

 parallel cells. Ovary implanted on disk ; style filiform ; stigma capi- 

 tate or bilamellate. Berry globular or ovate — Thorny shrubs, with 

 axillary or terminal spines, and clustered leaves. 



1, Jj, £uropaBUiii, L. Box- Thorn. 5 2 to 4, glabrous or prui- 

 nose, glaucescent. Leaves oblanceolate, oblique, obtuse or acutish. 

 Calyx at first equally toothed, then somewhat 2-lipped ; corolla violet, 

 lobes one-third as long as tube ; stamens included — Summer — Hedges 

 along coast ; Jordan Valley. 



2, Li. Arabicum, Schweinfurth. 5 1 to 3, grey-tomentellous. 

 Leaves spathulate-oblong. Calyx-teeth ciliated, unequal; corolla violet, 

 lobes one-fourth as long as tube ; anthers nearly included — Summer — 

 Er-Ramleh in et-Tlh; Shittim plain; Sinai. 



