236 en. SOLANACE^I. (C. B. Clarke.) [Solanum. 



22. S. coag-ulans, Forsk. FL JEg.-Ardb. 47; leaves ovate sinuate or 

 lobed stellately woolly beneath prickly, cymes lateral few-fld., calyx-lobes tri- 

 angular, flowers blue, berry globose glabrous yellow exceeding the piickly 

 calyx-lobes. Delile FL JEg. t. 23, fig. 1 ; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 369 ; 

 Baiss. FL Orient, iv. 286. S. sanctum, Linn. Sp. PI. 269. 



W. INDIA ; Punjab and Scinde, Jacquemont, Aitchison, &c. - DISTRIB. S.W. Asia, 

 Arabia, Egypt. 



Very near S. Melongena, more rigid and tomentose. Peduncles paired, one bearing 

 a single perfect flower, the other a raceme of males. Calyx-tube campanulate, often 

 in flower-time strongly, spinous. Corolla as of 8. Melongena, more woolly without, 

 lobes rather deeper. Berry 1 in. diam. 



23. S. sarmentosum, Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 58; sparsely 

 hairy, leaves broadly elliptic subpinnatifid prickly, peduncles extra-axillary 1-2- 

 fld., berry ^ in. diam. globose glabrous overtopped by the enlarged ovate 

 acuminate-caudate sepals. Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 357. S. Melongena, 

 Wall. Cat. 2628, letter F only. S. Jacquini, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. ii. 651, exd. 



syn., not of Willd. 



PENANG ; Wallich. MALACCA; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 5914). DISTRIB. Java, 

 Borneo. 



Stem procumbent, somewhat zigzag, not twining ; prickles long, straight. Leaves 

 4 by 2 in., obtusely lobed, young sparsely stellately pubescent beneath, mature 

 sparsely hairy or glabrate on both surfaces; petiole f in. Sepals in flower I in., 

 in fruit f by in., erect, sparsely hairy, usually prickly. Corolla f in. diam., stellately 

 pubescent without. Seeds in. diam., flocculose-scaly. 



24. S. xanthocarpum, Schrad. fy WendL Sert. Hanov. i. 8, t. 2; 

 leaves ovate or elliptic sinuate or subpinnatifid glabrescent very prickly, cymes 

 lateral few-fld., corolla blue, berry -f in. diam. globose glabrous much exceed- 

 ing the calyx-lobes. Dunal Sol. 231, and in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 302 ; Kurz 

 For. FL 224. S. Jacquini, Willd. Sp. PL i. 1041 ; Roxb. FL Ind. i. 569 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 2612; Dunal Sol. 231; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 56; Wight Ic. t. 

 1401 ; Dak. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 175. S. diffusum, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 17, and 

 FL Ind. i. 568; Wall. Cat. 2613. S. virginianum, Jacq. Ic. Ear. ii. 332, not 

 of Linn. S. armatum, Br. Prodr. 446 ; Benth. FL Austral, iv. 458, with syn. 



Throughout INDIA ; from the Punjab and Assam to Ceylon and Malacca ; common. 

 DISTRIB. S.E. Asia, Malaya, Trop. Australia and Polynesia. 



A very prickly, diffuse herb, 1-4 ft. diam., bright green, mature nearly glabrous. 

 Leaves 4-6 by 2-3 in. ; spines ^ in., straight ; petiole 1 in. Peduncles short, mostly 

 extra-axillary ; flowers few, all perfect ; pedicels and calyx stellately pubescent, or 

 at length glabrous. Calyx in flower \ in. -, lobes ovate-oblong, usually prickly, 

 hardly enlarged in fruit. Corolla 1 in. diam., pubescent without ; lobes shallow. 

 Kerry yellow, or whitish and green-blotched. Seeds i n - diam., glabrous. Has 

 been supposed to extend to Tropical Africa (see Schwemf. PL Nilot. 25, t. 9) ; but in 

 the African plant the flowers are larger, the fruit very much larger, the habit 

 different. 



25. S. trilofoatum, Linn. ; Burm. FL Ind. 57, t. 22 ; shoots stellateiy 

 pubescent, leaves ovate or elliptic irregularly sinuate or lobed prickly soon 

 glabrate, cymes lateral 2-8-fld., corolla blue, berry |- in. diam. globose much 

 exceeding the calyx-lobes. Roxb. FL Ind. i. 571 ; Wall. Cat. 2622 ; Dunal Sol. 

 225, and in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 287; Wight Ic. t. 854; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. 

 FL 175 ; Kurz For. FL 224. S. acetossefolium, Lamk. Diet. iv. 306 ; Dunal 

 Sol. 226. S. canaranum, Miq. in PI. Hohenack. n. 740. 



W. DECCAN PENINSULA ; from the Concan, southward, &c., frequent. MALAY 



