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3. S. parasitkum. 



4. S. Bliimei. 



5. S. hifiorum. 



6. S.ferox. 



7. S. torvum. 



8. S. indicum. 



S. Melongena. 

 S. sarmentosiim. 



Calyx with a sub-entire margin ; flowers white ; leaves 

 glabrous ; epiphytic 



Calyx with a distinctly lO-toothed margin ; terrestrial : — 

 Leaves glabrous ; calyx with 5 long teeth and 5 very 

 short intermediate toothlets ; corolla-lobes purplish ; 

 berry dark blue 



Leaves usually puberulous to pubescent, rarely almost 

 glabrous ; calyx with 10 long teeth ; corolla white ; berry 

 yellow 

 Armed herbs with prickly stems and usually prickly leaves ; 

 corolla pubescent externally : — 



Densely stellate-tomentose throughout : — 



Calyx not overtopping the berry ; erect herbs or shrubs : — 

 Flowers white : — 



Leaves very prickly especially on the nerves beneath ; 

 ovary hirsute ; fruit hispid with acicular hairs 

 Leaves with very few prickles ; ovary and fruit 

 glabrous 

 Flowers blue :— 



Eacemes many-flowered ; berry small, yellow, globose 

 Eacemes few-flowered ; berry large, purple, rarely white 

 or yellow, often in cultivation ellipsoid or elongate . . 9, 

 Calyx overtopping the berry ; a spreading shrub . . 10, 



Thinly beset with minute hairs ; berry large, smooth ; calyx 

 very prickly . . . . . . . . . . 11. S. aculeatissimum. 



1. SoLANUM NIGRUM, Linn. Sp. PI. 186. A herb or undershrub, 

 1 to 3 feet high; all parts sparingly pubescent or glabrous. Leaves 

 petioled, membranous, ovate or oblong, narrowed towards apex and base, 

 sinuate-toothed or -lobed ; 3 to 4 in. long, 2 in. across ; green on both 

 surfaces; petioles '75 in. long. Floivers small, sub-umbellately clustered 

 on stoutish extra-axillary peduncles '35 to '75 in. long ; pedicels 5 to 8 

 together, slender, '35 in. long. Calyx sparsely puberulous, 5-toothed ; 

 teeth small, ovate-oblong, -05 in. long, in fruit hardly noticeable. 

 Corolla white, rarely purplish, externally glabrous, "5 in. wide, rotate, 

 5-lobed. Ovary glabrous ; style hairy at base. Fruit red or black, 

 rarely yellow, globose, -25 in. across, supported by the saucer-shaped 

 calyx. Seeds "05 in. in diam., almost smooth. Bl. Bijdr. 694 ; 

 Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 150; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 636; Kurz For. 

 Flor. Burm. II. 224 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 229. S. rub- 

 riim, Eoxb. Flor. Ind. I. 565. S. triangulare, Lamk 111. II. IS. S. 

 uliginosum, Bl. Bijdr. 695. S. Bumphii, Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 57. 

 S. rhinocerotis, Bl. Bijdr. 695. 



SiNGAPOEE : Biclley 8084 ! Perak : Kota Bahru, King's Collector 

 566 ! Andamans : King's Collectors ! Xicobaes : Kurz ! — Distkib. 

 Tropics generally. 



2. SoLANUii VEEBASCiFOLiUH, Linn. Sp. PI. 184. An erect unarmed 

 shrub, 8 to 20 feet high; all parts thickly stellate-tomentose, the 



