Solanum.'] en. SOLANACE&. (C. B. Clarke.) . 235 



82, t. 133, fig. 1, not of Br. S. cuneatuin, Moench Hort. Marb. 476. S. 

 cauescens, Blume Bijd. 701. S. pinnatifidurn and agreste, Roth Nov. Sp. 129, 

 130. S. Ileynei, Roem. fy Sch. Syst. iv. 669. S. Anguivi, Bojer ; Hook. Exot. 

 Fl. t. 199. "S. himalense, Dunal I. c. 300. S. Jungkulinii, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. 

 ii. 649. Burm. Thes. Zeyl. 220, t. 102 ; Rheede Hort. Mai. ii. t, 36. 



Throughout tropical INDIA ; very common, ascending to 5000 ft. DISTRIB. 

 Malaya, China to the Philippines. 



An undershrub, 1-6 ft., much branched, very prickly ; prickles compressed, stout, 

 often recurved. Leaves 3-6 by 1-4 in., subentire or pinnatifid ; petiole 1 in. 

 Peduncles short, often extra-axillary ; pedicels \-^ in., stellately woolly. Calyx-lobes 

 in flower in., triangular, acute, very woolly, unarmed or with slender straight spines. 

 Corolla 5-! in. diam., blue ; lobes broadly triangular, tomentose without. Ovary 

 usually glabrous ; style stellately pubescent. Berry yellow ; calyx-lobes patent, 

 woolly, prickles often strengthened in fruit. Seeds in. diam. and upwards, smooth 

 or very nearly so. A Nilgherry form is less prickly, has smaller less lobed leaves, 

 and small corymbs of larger flowers. A plant from the Concan is sparsely prickly 

 and has the leaves very sparsely stellate tomentose. A Punjab example of Thomson 

 has branches with very numerous small thin leaves, a monstrosity that occurs in, 

 other Indian species of So/annm. 



VAR. multiflora, Wight; rather stronger, more hairy, racemes stouter longer, 

 stellate pubescence of the style extending over the ovary continued on the fruit or 

 deciduous. S. multiflorum, Both Nov. Sp. 130; Roem. $ Sch. Syst. iv. 669. S. 

 ferox, var. minus, Wight Ic. t. 1400. S. torvum, var. fi inerme, Nees in Trans. Linn. 

 f>c. xvii. 54; var. 7 inerme, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 261. S. erosum, Van 

 HeurcJc $ Muell. in Van Heurck Nov. PL 83. 



21. S. BXelong'ena, Linn.', Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 49; leaves 

 ovato sinuate or lobed stellately woolly beneath prickly rarely all unarmed, 

 cymes lateral few-fld., calyx-lobes lanceolate, flowers blue, berry glabrous 

 exceeding the calyx-lobes in cultivation often large ellipsoid or elongate white 

 yellow or dark-purple. Lour. Ft. Cochinch. 130; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 566; Wall. 

 Cat. 2628 ; Wight III t, 166 ; Dah. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Swppl 61 ; Sendtn. in 

 Mart. Brasil. Sol. 77. S. incanum, Linn. ; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 368. 

 S. insaniun, Linn. Mant. 46; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 568. S. zeilanicum, Scop. 

 Delic. t. 1. S. undatum, Lamk. Diet. iv. 301 ; JSlume Bijd. 700; Dunal I.e. 

 359. S. Trongum, Lamk. Diet. iv. 308. S. longum, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 16, 

 and Fl. Ind. i. 567. S. pseudo-undatum, Blume Bijd. 699. S. ovigerum, 

 Blume Bijd. 698 ; Dunal 1. c. 357. S. esculentum, Dunal Sol. 208, t. 3, and in 

 DC. I.e. 355. S. heteracanthum, Dunal ; Nees I.e. 51; Dunal I.e. 365. 

 melanocarpum, sativum, pressum and Cumingii, Dunal I. c. 355, 360, 362 and 

 363. S. torvum, var. inerme, Dalz. # Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 175. S. ferox, var. ft 

 Kurz For. Fl. ii. 226, not of Linn. Rumph Herb. Amb. v. t. 85, and t. 86, 

 fig. 1 ; Rheede Hort. Mai. ii. t. 37, and x. t. 74. 



INDIA ; generally cultivated. DISTRIB. Cultivated in the warmer regions of the 

 globe. 



Herbaceous, 2-8 ft. ; prickly, or sometimes nearly unarmed. Leaves 3-6 by 2 

 in.; petiole 1 in. Peduncles mostly extra-axillary, often paired, one bearing a 

 perfect flower, the other a short raceme of male flowers ; or the raceme may be con- 

 sidered sessile with the lowest flower only perfect. Calyx-lobes in flower 4-3 in., 

 elliptic or oblong-linear. Corolla 1-1^ in. diam., shortly lobed, hairy on the plaits 

 without. Style stellately pubescent, or glabrous. Berry 1-9 in., very variable m 

 cultivation ; calyx-lobes enlarged, usually much shorter than the fruit, often pnckly. 

 Not known wild in India, according to Dalzell and Kurz 11. c.; A. DC. says it is a 

 native of Asia, not America, and Sendtner I.e. fixes its origin in Arabia; all this 

 appears uncertain. As an escape from cultivation it becomes often intensely prickly, 

 and the peduncle carries 1-5 fruits.- The egg-plant, or Brinjal. 



