232 en. SOLANACEJS. (C. B. Clarke.) [Solanum. 



MTS. of the DECCAN PENINSULA, alt. 4-8000 ft., and CEYLON, frequent. DISTRIB. 

 Malay Islands. 



A woody, somewhat rigid shrub. Leaves 3 by H in., young almost villous, 

 mature setulose above, pubescent often rusty on the nerves beneath ; petiole ^ in. 

 Pedicels 1-4 together, f in. Calyx-teeth lanceolate, minute ; in fruit |- in. or on the 

 same shrub. Berry \-^ in. Seeds in. diam. and upwards, smooth or nearly so. 



VAB. GouaJcai; leaves angular and sometimes with acute lobes | in. long. S. 

 Gouakai, Dunal in DC. I.e. 177. Pulney Mts. ; Wight. Ceylon ; Walker. 



11. S. biflprum, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 129, not of D. Don ; leaves elliptic 

 or oblong acuminate at both ends entire glabrous setulose or pubescent, calyx- 

 teeth 10 in flower ^ in. narrow-lanceolate, corolla ^-^ in. Dunal in DC. 

 Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 178;TfiTws For. Fl. 224. S. decemdentatum, Roxb. Hort. 

 Beng. 16, and Fl. 2nd. i. 565 ; Wall. Cat. 2614 j Dunal 1. c. 179. S. mollissi- 

 mum, Blume Bijd. 698 ; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 45 ; Dunal 1. c. 1 78. 

 S. decemfidum, Nees I. c. 43. S. Zollingeri, Oalleryanum and Osbeckii, Dunal 

 I. c. 176, 178, 179. 



SINGAPORE ; Wallich. MEEGUI and MALACCA ; Griffith. DISTRIB. Malaya and 

 East Ava. 



A shrub ; shoots flocculose-setose or nearly glabrous. Leaves 5 by If in. ; petiole 

 in. Pedicels 16, |- in. Flower and fruit nearly as in S. denticulatum, from which 

 it only differs in the longer calyx-teeth. Very variable in indumentum ; Roxburgh 

 described the leaves as villous, the calyx as pubescent; his Ic. Ined. preserved at 

 Kew represents a glabrous form. 



12. S. macro don, Wall. Cat. 2621;' erect, shrubby, leaves elliptic- 

 lanceolate acuminate at both ends entire setulose above, pedicels 1-8 together, 

 calyx-teeth in flower in. linear hispidulous, corolla ^-^ in. Nees in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xvii. 43 ; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 180. S. biflorum, Don 

 Prodr. 96, excl. syn., not of Lour. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 4-8000 ft., from Nepal to Bhotan, common. ^KHASIA 

 MTS., alt. 3-5000 ft., common. 



A small shrub setulose with jointed, submoniliform, glistening hairs. Leaves 6 

 in. in large examples, or 2 in. in high level forms ; petiole -|-f in. Pedicels ^-1 in., 

 mostly 2-6 together, sometimes solitary. Calyx-teeth (in flower) terminal, alternate 

 sometimes shorter. Corolla-lobes oblong, acute, purple rose or nearly white, with 2 

 green glandular spots near the base. Berry % in. diam., globose. Seeds in. diam., 

 subtriangular, smooth. 



VAR. lysimachioides ; stems slender procumbent often rooting at the nodes, 

 pedicels solitary. Wall. Cat. 2609, and in Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey $ Wall. ii. 257 ; 

 Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 44; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. 181. Temperate 

 Himalaya, from Kumaon (Strachey Sf Winterbottom) to Bhotan. Khasia Mts. alt. 

 3-5000 feet. 



13. S. crassipetalum, Wall. Cat. 2618, and in Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 

 Carey 8f Wall. ii. 256 ; erect, shrubby, leaves elliptic-lanceolate acuminate at both 

 ends entire glabrous or sparsely setulose, pedicels 1-8 together, calyx-teeth in 

 flower sVis m - triangular glabrous or pubescent from a compressed base below 

 the calyx-rim, corolla ^- in. Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 42. Bassovia ? 

 Wallichii, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. 409. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 3-8000 ft. ; from Nepal to Bhotan, very common. 



A shrub, 2-9 feet. Leaves 6 by 2^ in. (sometimes 9-10 in.); usually nearly 

 glabrous, sometimes abundantly flocculose-setulose ; petiole f in. Calyx-teeth in 

 flower below the limb, bases compressed decurrent on the tube, points linear-obtuse 

 divaricate horizontally. Corolla and berry nearly as of S. macrodon. The thicken- 

 ing of the petals observed in the few examples of Wallich frequently occurs in this 

 species, but in abnormal flowers with imperfect stamens, and is perhaps due to some 



