8olanum.~\ en. SOLANACEJ;. (C. B. Clarke.) 237 



PENINSULA ; from Arracan to Malacca, in the tidal swamps, frequent. CEYLON ; drier 

 parts of the island. 



A scandent undershrub, 6-12 ft., nearly glabrous ; prickles short, stout, com- 

 pressed, recurved. Leaves 3 by 1^- in., irregularly obtusely sinuate or lobed, base not 

 cordate; petiole ^1| in. Peduncles short, mostly extra-axillary ; pedicels ^-l in., 

 with short, strong, recurved prickles. Calyx-lobes 1 in., ovate-oblong, minutely 

 HStellately pubescent or glabrate, rarely prickly, hardly enlarged in fruit. Corolla, 

 1-1 in. diam., pubescent without; lobes triangular-lanceolate, as long as the tube. 

 Seeds ^ in., smooth, or very nearly so. 



VAR. ? Griffithii ; leaves 2| by in. linear. Malay Peninsula, Griffith (Kew 

 Distrib. n. 5915). 



26. S. gracilipes, Dene, in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 113, t. 119; minutely 

 stellately pubescent, stem prickly, leaves ovate or orbicular sinuate often sub- 

 cordate not prickly, peduncles axillary short 1-3-fld. or pedicels subterminal 

 1-3 together on very short lateral spurs, berry in. diam. globose glabrous 

 exceeding the sublinear sepals. Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 286 ; Boiss. 

 Fl. Orient, iv. 286. S. Jacquemonti, Dunal I. c. 287. 



WESTERN INDIA ; Punjab and Scinde, Jacquemont, Stocks, DalzelL DISTRIB. 

 Beloochistan. 



An undershrub ; prickles short, conical, subrecurved. Leaves l in. diam., obtuse, 

 rarely lobed, usually shallowly cordate ; petiole \ in. Peduncles very short or ; 

 pedicels - 1^ in., slender. Calyx-lobes | in., linear ; in fruit in. Corolla f in. 

 diam., deeply lobed. Seeds in. diam., smooth. This is believed to be 8. cordatum, 

 Forsk. Fl. ^Eg.-Arab. 47 (Dunal Sol. 239, and in DC. Prodr. xiii. 373), an Arabian 

 species of which no authentic example can be seen. 



27. S. aculeatissimum, Jacq. Coll. i. 100, and Ic. Ear. i. t. 41 ; 

 prickles very many long straight slender, leaves ovate lobed sparsely hairy, 

 peduncles 1-7-fld. mostly 1 -fruited, berry 1^ in. diam. globose smooth, fruiting- 

 calyx small prickly. Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 244. 



SINGAPORE ; G. Thomson. DISTRIB. Malaya, Tropical America ? 

 The example of Gr. Thomson (in fruit) is identical with Zollinger, n. 529, which is 

 the type of S. aculeatissimum, var. denudatum, Dunal 1. c. 1 Stems glabrous (in the 

 ^ggfa^Bnudatum) or minutely puberulous upwards. Leaves 3-5 in. Peduncles in fruit 

 Ipfijr Calyx in fruit scarcely % in., but very prickly. Seeds in. diam., extremely 

 compressed, almost winged. 



1*. 1YCOFERSICUBI, Miller. 



Tall, pubescent herbs. Leaves pinnate ; pinnae toothed or lyrate. Cymes 

 peduncled, few-fld. Sepals 5-6, narrow, unaltered in fruit. Corolla rotate, 

 tube very short ; limb 5-6-fid, plaited in bud. Stamens 5-6, on the corolla- 

 tube ; anthers connivent in an elongate cone, dehiscing by slits. Ovary 2-3- 

 celled ; style cylindric, stigma small capitate. Seeds many, compressed, papil- 

 lose ; embryo peripheric. Species 3-4, American. 



Xi. esculentum. Miller ; Dunal Sol. 113, t. 3, fig. C., and in DC. Prodr. 

 xiii. 26; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 61. L. cerasiforme, Dunal Sol. 113, 

 t. 3, fig. B., and in DC. Prodr. xiii. 26 ; Nees I. c. 62, with several other species 

 of Dunal. Solanum Lycopersicum, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. 2nd. i. 565 ; Wall. Cat. 

 2611. S. Humboldtii, Willd. Hort. Berol. i. 27, t. 27. S. pseudolycopersicum, 

 Jacq. Hort. Vind. i. t. 11. 



Cultivated, and as an escape, in INDIA. DISTRIB. Native of Tropical America. 



Flowers f in. diam., yellow; in cultivation 2-6-merous, or " double." Berry $ in. 

 diam., globose red ; or, in cultivation, enlarged, pyriforin or depressed globose, very 

 variable. The Tomato. 



