SOLANUM.] SOLANACE&. 125 



rhomboid or rounded, main lateral nerves about 8 pairs, petiole 

 1-.2 in. Flowers many, densely clustered in woolly 2-chotomous corym- 

 bose subterminal cymes ; peduncles erect, stout, 1-4 in. long ; pedicels 

 fc-f in. long, stout. Calyx i in. long, densely stellate-tomentose, 

 enlarged in fruit but shorter than the berry ; teeth triangular, acute. 

 Corolla white, in. across, stellate-hairy outside ; lobes in. long, acute. 

 Ovary hairy, style glabrous. Berry % in. in diam., globose, yellow. 

 Seeds minutely dotted. 



Dehra Dun, Siwalik range and in the Sub-Himalayan tracts of Rohilkhand 

 and N. Oudh ; also in Bundelkhand and in other parts of the area, 

 frequently met with in hedges near villages. Flowers during the 

 greater portion of the year. DISTRIB. : Throughout India in the 

 tropical and sub-tropical zones and up to 3,000 ft. on the Himalaya ; 

 also in Ceylon, extending to the Nicobar Islands, Malaya, N. Australia 

 and N. America. The roots, leaves and fruit are used in native 

 medicine 1 , and in S. India the plant is said to be cultivated for its fruit 

 which is eaten. 



3. S. xanthocarpum, Schrad. $ Wendl. Sert. i, 8, t. 2 ; F. B. I. iv, 

 236; Watt E.D. Collett Fl. Siml. 343; Prain Beng. PI. 746 ; Cooke Fl. 

 Bomb, ii, 265. S. diffusum, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. i, 568. S. Jacquini, Willd. 

 Roxb. FL Ind. i, 569 ; Royle III. 279. Vern. Kateli. 



A very prickly bright-green perennial herb, young parts stellate tomen- 

 tose Stem flexuose, woody at the base ; branches many, armed with 

 compressed straight or somewhat curved yellow glabrou? shining 

 prickles up to in. long. Leaves 2-4 in long, ovate or elliptic, sinuate or 

 subpinnatifid, rounded and unequal-sided at the base, clothed especially 

 beneath with stellate hairs, ultimately glabrous, the midrib and often 

 the main lateral nervesiarmed with long straight yellow spines, petioles 

 up to 1 in. long. Flowers few, in extra-axillary shortly peduncled cymes 

 or solitary ; pedicels curved, stellately hairy. Calyx - in. long, 

 densely stellate-hairy and prickly ; lobes linear-lanceolate, acute. 

 Corolla bluish-purple, 1 in. in diam ; lobes acute, hairy outside. Fila- 

 ments glabrous. Ovary ovoid, glabrous as also the style. Berry - in. 

 in diam., yellow or white streaked with green. Seeds glabrous. 



Abundant within the area by roadsides and on waste ground. Flowers 

 during the greater part of the year. DISTRIB.: Throughout India, 

 ascending to 7,000 ft. on the Himalaya ; also in Ceylon, extending to 

 Malaya, Trop. Australia and Polynesia. All parts of the plant are 

 used as ingredients of native medicines, and tha fruits are said to be 

 sometimes eaten. 



4. S. indicum, Linn. Sp. Pi 187 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. i, 570; Royl& 

 III. 279 ; F. B. I. iv. 234 ; Watt E.D. ; Kanjildl For. Fl. 273; Gambit 

 Man. Ind. Timb. 507 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 342 ; Prain Beng. PI. 746 ; Cooke 

 Fl. Bomb, ii, 266 ; Brandis Ind. Trees 489. Vern. Bhut-kataia. 



An erect very prickly undershrub, 1-6 ft. high ; prickles large, compressed 

 at the base, usually somewhat curved. Stem stout, often tinged with 

 purple, the branches minutely stellate-hairy. Leaves 2-6 in. long, 



