230 on. SOLANACEJ:. (C. B. Clarke.) [Solatium. 



A shrub. Leaves 35 in., in the Indian examples often cordate-oblong, acute r 

 entire lobed or almost pinnate ; petiole 1 in. Peduncles ^4 in. ; cymes 2-5 in. 

 diam. ; pedicels ^-^ in. Calyx in fruit almost saucer-shaped, lobes in flower ~ in-> 

 ovate-oblong. Corolla f in. diam. Style glabrous. Berry in. diam., globose. 

 Seeds in. diam., smooth. S. laxum, Koyle, is a starved state with the panicle 

 almost capillary and flowers about in. diam. 



3. S. spirale, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 16, and Fl. Ind. i. 566 ; glabrous, 

 leaves elliptic entire acute at both ends, peduncles extra-axillary, pedicels long 

 densely spirally racerned, calyx-teeth minute, corolla white. Wall. Cat, 2619 ; 

 Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 40 ; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 146 : Kurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 227. 



ASSAM, KHASIA Mrs. and EAST BENGAL ; alt. 0-3500 ft., in and near the hills, 

 common. DISTRIB. Ava. 



A herb or undershrub 4-12 feet, resembling a large S. nigrurn. Leaves attaining 

 8 by 3 in., attenuate at the base, glabrous or scarcely puberulous ; petiole f in. 

 Pedicels numerous, ^-1 in.; racemes sometimes divided. Calyx ^ in., cup-shaped; 

 in fruit saucer-shaped, not enlarged. Corolla in. diam., deeply lobed. Anthers 

 oblong, scarcely narrowed upwards. Berry ^ in. diam., globose, smooth. Seeds ^ in. 

 diam., smooth. 



4. S. vagfum, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 2624 ; leaves elliptic acute at both 

 ends sinuate glabrescent, peduncles extra-axillary, pedicels long sub-racemed, 

 calyx-teeth linear-lanceolate. Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 48 ; Dunal in 

 DC. Prodr. xiii. pt, i. 116. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; Heyne. 



A glabrescent shrub, shoots stellately white-pubescent. Leaves 6 by 2| in., very 

 shallowly lobed ; petiole 1^ in. Peduncles f . in. ; racemes dense, sometimes divided ; 

 pedicels -1 in., spirally placed. Calyx-teeth in flower in. ; in fruit | in. Corolla 

 | in. diam., deeply lobed, sparingly pubescent without. Berry \-^ in. diam., globose r 

 smooth. Very closely allied to S. spirale. 



5. S. verbascifolium, Linn. ; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 114; 

 stellately woolly, leaves elliptic acuminate entire, corymbs peduncled sub- 

 terminal compound dense, calyx-teeth triangular, corolla white. Jacq. Hort. 



Tind. i. t. 13; Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 128; Wall. Cat. 261G ; 'Nees in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xvii. 46 ; Wight Ic. t. 1398 ; Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. FL 175 ; Kurz 

 For. FL ii. 225. S. pubescens, Roxb. FL Ind. ed. Carey fy Watt. ii. 244 ; 

 Blume Bijd. 698, not of Willd. S. erianthum, Don Prodr. 96. 



Throughout INDIA, in the Tropical and Subtropical zone; common. DISTRIB. 

 S.E. Asia, Malaya, N. Australia, Tropical America. 



A shrub, or subarboreous, 20 feet high. Leaves 7 by 3 in. attenuate at both ends 

 or base subrhomboid; petiole 1-2 in. Peduncles stout, 1-4 in.; cymes dichotomously 

 compound, very woolly. Calyx-lobes in flower ~ in., thrice as large in fruit, but 

 much shorter than the berry. Corolla f in. diam., woolly without. Ovary hairy, 

 style glabrous. Berry ^ in. diam., globose, yellow. Seeds in. diam., nearly 

 smooth. 



6. S. pubescens, Willd. Phyt. 5, t. 3; leaves ovate entire sinuate thinly 

 stellately hairy, racemes lateral and terminal 3-10-flowered, calyx-teeth lan- 

 ceolate, corolla purple. Wall. Cat. 2629 ; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 60 ; 

 Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 127 ; Wight Ic. t. 1402. S. calycinum, Nees 

 1. c. S. couanthum, Dunal I. c. 



DECCAN PENINSULA and CEYLON ; Wight, Thwaites, &e. 



A shrub or subarboreous ; young branches densely stellately woolly, older usually 

 perfectly glabrous. Leaves 2-4 in., irregularly obscurely lobed, base rhomboid or 

 shallowly cordate shortly decurrent, young stellately subwoolly, mature thinly hairy 



