330 Flora of the 2Ialayan Peninsula. 



tomentum often scurfy. Leaves petioled, thickly herbaceous, ovate- 

 lanceolate to lanceolate, acute; base usually truncate or rounded, rarely 

 cuneate ; 4 to 7 in. long, 3 in. across ; green above, white to yellowish- 

 brown beneath from the scurfy tomentum ; petioles '5 to 1-5 in. long. 

 Flowers small, on thick tomentose pedicels, densely clustered in a small 

 tomentose corymb-like cyme on an erect sub-terminal stout peduncle 

 1 to 3 in. long. Calyx densely tomentose, 5-toothed ; teeth triangular, 

 acute, -1 in. long in flower. -3 in. long in fruit; tube short. Corolla white, 

 externally stellate-tomentose, '6 in. across, rotate, 5-lobed ; lobes short, 

 ovate-oblong. Ovary hairy ; style glabrous. Fruit yellow, globose, 

 •4 in. wide, the lower portion embraced by the calyx-lobes. Seeds "IS in. 

 in diam., minutely dotted. Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 114; Lour. Flor. 

 Cochin-Chin. 128 ; Wall. Cat. 2616 ; Kurz For. Mor. II. 225 ; Clarke 

 in Hook. f. Elor. Brit. Ind. IV. 230 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 640. S. 

 pubescens, Bl. Bijdr. 698 ; Eoxb. Flor. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 244 

 {not of Willd.). 



Selangok : Kwala Lampar, Goodenough I Peeak : King's Collector 

 2069 ! 7177 ! Wray 2357 ! Penang : Deschamps ! Kedah : King's 

 Collector 1704 ! Nicobaes : Kamorta, Jelinek ! Teressa, King's 

 Collectors ! — Disteib. Tropics of both hemispheres. 



3. SoLANUM PAEASiTicuM, Bl. Bijdr. 697. An erect almost glabrous 

 epiphytic shrub, 2 to 4 feet high. Leaves short-petioled, rather firmly 

 membranous, lanceolate-acuminate, narrowed towards apex and base, 

 entke ; 6 to 8 in. long, 1-5 to 2 in. wide ; green on both surfaces, minutely 

 setulose above when young, glabrous beneath ; petiole '25 to "35 in. 

 long. Flowers small, clustered in an axillary fascicle of 2 to 7 together 

 or sometimes sohtary, on slender somewhat rigid glabrous pedicels '6 to 

 •8 in. long. Calyx glabrous, small, the margin in flower sinuate 

 representing either 5 or 10 teeth at most only -1 in. long ; in fruit 

 slightly enlarged, saucer-shaped, the margin quite entire. Corolla 

 white, glabrous externally, 5-lobed, rotate ; "25 in. across. Ovary and 

 style glabrous. Fruit yellow, globose, -25 in. in diam., resting on the 

 saucer-shaped calyx. Seeds "06 in. in diam., smooth. Nees Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. XVII. 45 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. 11. 641. 



Peeak: Larut, on trees, rather plentiful, TTray .' Scortechini I King's 

 Collector ! — Disteib. Sumatra, Java. 



Near S. subtruncatum but always epiphytic, and with an even more markedly 

 truncate calyx-limb than in that species. 



4. SOLAXUM Blumei Nees ex Bl. in Bijdr. 696. An erect quite 

 glabrous shrub, 3 to 4 feet high, with spreading branches. Leaves 

 towards top in pairs from one node, usually one smaller, elliptic- 

 acuminate at both ends, bases unequal ; 4 to 6 in. long, 2 to 3 in. wide ; 



