SOLANACE^. 537 



Order LXVII. SOLANACEiE. 



Herbs or shrubs (commonly rank-scented), with colorless juice, alternate leaves 

 and no stipules, regular 5-merous 5-androus flowers on bractlcss pedicels, the corolla 

 valvate or sometimes imbricated and usually plaited in the bud, a single style, and 

 a (normally) 2-celled ovary ; the fruit a many-seeded berry or capsule ; the embryo 

 slender and mostly curved in fleshy albumen :- distinguished from Scrophularmcew 

 by the recrular 5-androus flowers; from the preceding orders with free calyx and 

 stamens al many as the lobes of the regular corolla, by the plaited corolla along 

 with a single style, placentie in the axis, numerous seeds, curved embryo, &c. beeds 

 campylotropous or amphitropous. Calyx usually persistent. Flowers solitary or 

 cymose, mostly unaccompanied by bracts, aM the cymes or their branches oftener 

 secund or scorpioid and imitating racemes, in the manner of Borrarjurace<e &c. 

 Leaves commonly unequally geminate, and peduncle distant from the nearest leaf. 



however the natural arrangement is mamly followed. .,, v a i 



as it ripens and bursts irregularly like a capsule. 



I Fruit a berry, from an ovary of 2 or rarely (except in cultivated plants) of 3 or more cells : 

 *' embryo coiled or curvpH. 



their cells 



* Corolla rotate or barely campanulate, valvate and mostly induplicate or plaited in the bud. 



1 LvcoDersicum. Anthers united into a cone ; the cells opening lengthwise clown the inside : 

 ^hlam!nSveS short. Leaves pinnately compound, the leaflets stalked Berry naked 



2 Solaium Aifthers distinct, but generally conniving longer than the hlaments ; their c 



n, t„iv,<r nt the apcx bv a hole or slit, but often also longitudinally. . 



3 Caps cum AntE distinct, short, Aot longer than the filament the cells opening len; 



S N^thout a tei-minal hole. Calyx herbaceous, girtmg only the base of the be 



4 C^^^a::^^^^ rnttirtinc'ttnd not connivent, shoi., on slender.filaments, opening 



le^uSf Calyx enlarging close around but not completely enclosing the berry, not 



5 Ph;£li'.''ISrs distinct, opening lengthwise, without pores. Calyx enlarging, becoming 



bladdery -inflated and reticulate-veiny, enclosing the berry. 

 * * Corolla tubular or funnelform, imbricated or induplicate-plaited in the bud. 



6 Orvctes. Herbaceous. Calyx 5 -parted. Corolla 5-toothed rolvx3-5- 

 1 LycSS. Diftusely branched shrubs, commonly spiny, wi h entire leaves Calyx 3 5 



tootled or cleft. Corolla 4 - 5-lobed. Berry minutely stalked in the calyx. 



II Fruit a capsule, but sometimes a fleshy one : corolla plaited in the bud. 

 * Calyi deciduous, leaving a short base under the fruit : seeds large : embryo cu.-ved^ 



convolute) in the bud. 



* * Calyx persistent : seeds small : embryo shorter, straightish. 



10. Petunia. Capsule smooth, 2-celled, simply 2-valved. taljx 5 paiua, 

 foliaceous lobes. 



