Solanum.'] en. SOLANACBJI. (C. B. Clarke.) 233 



insect. At all events, normal unthickened flowers abound. Leaves cooked and eaten 

 in Sikkim (J. D. H.). 



* Prickly, some varieties of S. Melongena rarely unarmed. 



14. S. g-ig-anteum, Jacq. Coll. iv. 125, and Ic. Ear. ii. t. 328; subar- 

 boreous; spinous, leaves oblong cuneate at both ends, and cymes stellately white 

 woolly beneath, cymes terminal dense many-fld. stellately white woolly, berry 

 in. diam. glabrous. Dunal Sol. 202, and in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 258 ; Nees 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 47 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1921 ; Wight fy Arn. in Ann. Nat. 

 Hist. i. 395, t. 13 ; Wight Ic. t. 893 ; Dak. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 175. S.-aiveum, 

 Vahl Symb. ii. 41. S.'farinosum, Wall. Cat. 2610, and in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 

 Carey fy Wall. ii. 255. S. argenteum, Heyne in Herb. Rottler. 



MTS. of S. DECCAN and CEYLON, alt. 3-7000 ft., frequent ; Wight, Thwaites, &c. 



Often 10-25 feet high; but in cultivation flowers at 4 feet high; stem thick, 

 soft, prickly, stellately white-woolly. Leaves 8 by 3 in., entire, undulate; nerves 

 impressed on the upper surface ; petiole 2 in. Pedicels very short, in fruit | in. 

 Calyx-lobes ~ in., triangular, in fruit twice as large. Corolla f in. diam., blue ; tube 

 nearly as long as the lobes. Ovary puberulous. Seeds ^ in. diam., glabrous. 



15. S. ferox, Linn. ; Dunal Sol. 223, and in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 255; 

 densely stellately woolly, leaves ovate with short triangular lobes, racemes 

 lateral dense, corolla white, berry 1-1 in. diam. globose hirsute with needle- 

 like hairs greatly exceeding the ovate-triangular calyx-lobes. Nees in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xvii. 52 (excl. syn. S. involucratum, Blume) ; Wight Ic. t. 1399 

 '(exti. var. minus) ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 226, partly, and excl. var. #). S. lasio- 

 carpuin, Blume Bijd. 701 ; Wall Cat. 2623 ; Dunal Sol 222, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 252. S. hirsutum, Roxb. Hort. JBena. 17, and Fl. Ind. ed. 

 Carey fy Wall. ii. 253. 8. stramonifolium, Dunal Sol. 222, and DC. Prodr. 

 xiii. pt. i. 252, not of Jacq. nor of Wall Rheede Hort. Mai ii. 35. 



EASTERN and SOUTHERN INDIA, in the tropical zone, frequent ; from Assam to 

 Ceylon and to Tenasserim. DISTRIB. Hongkong. 



Stem herbaceous, stout, 2-4 feet, sub-erect, prickly. Leaves 8 by 6 in., closely 

 villous above, stellately fulvous-woolly beneath, lobes 1 in. deep, prickly especially 

 on the nerves ; petiole 2| in. Peduncles usually close below the leaves, short ; 

 racemes densely stellately woolly and with needle-like hairs, not prickly. Calyx 

 shortly funnel-shaped ; lobes in., ovate-triangular not acuminate. Corolla densely 

 woolly without, lobes '4-1 in., oblong, acute. Ovary hirsute. Berry yellow, needle- 

 like hairs - in., fulvous, spreading ; fruit-pedicels -1 in. ; calyx-lobes in fruit 

 unaltered, hardly the length of the berry. Seeds in. diam., nearly smooth. 

 S. involucratum (Blume Bijd. 701), the Malay species reduced to S. ferox by Nees, 

 has the calyx-lobes produced, in fruit 1 in., ovate-linear, with slender prickles, enclos- 

 ing the berry. 



16. S- barbisetum, Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 51 ; hirsute, leaves 

 ovate with short triangular lobes, racemes lateral elongate many-flowered, 

 corolla blue lobes lanceolate acuminate, berry in. diam. globose glabrous en- 

 closed by the prickly calyx. Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 250. S. erio- 

 phorum,' Dunal I.e. 249. S. involucratum, Kurz For. Fl ii. 224, not of 

 Blume. 



Irom N. BENGAL and ASSAM to TENASSERIM, in the subtropical region, alt. 1-5000 

 ft., frequent, Wallwh, Griffith, H.f. $ T., &c. 



In general appearance, and in the leaves, resembling S. ferox, but with close 

 clustered fine hairs, scarcely woolly. Eacemes 2-6 in. ; pedicels very many, 4-1 in., 

 deflexed after flower. Calyx-lobes \-% in., oblong-lanceolate. Corolla-lobes very 

 narrow, acute. Calyx in fruit enlarged, tube subglobose with deflexed prickles, teeth 

 closed over the berry. Seeds more than in. diam., minutely villous. 



