Flora of tlic Malayan Peninsula. 331 



rather firmly membranous ; lateral nerves 6 to 7 pairs ; petiole -3 in. 

 long. Floiuers in clusters of 2 to 9, rarely solitary, axillary ; pedicels 

 slender, in flower deflexed, in fruit spreading, -75 in. long, thickened 

 upwards. Calyx glabrous, limb sub-truncate, with 5 subulate, and 5 

 intervening minute teeth, the longer series -2 to "25 in. long. Corolla 

 with white tube and 5 purplish narrow-ovate lobes, '3 in. across. 

 Ovary and style glabrous. Fruit globose, dark blue, "25 in. in diam., 

 resting on the saucer-shaped calyx with persisting teeth. Seeds "09 in. 

 in diam., almost smooth. Nees Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 45; Dun. in 

 DC. Prod. XIII. 180 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 642. 



Selangoe : Biclley ! Peeak : Larut, King's Collector ! Wray ! 

 Curtis ! Biclley ! Scortechini ! Gunong Panti, Kunstler I — Distkib. 

 Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 



The commonest Solanum of its group in our area. It has been suggested by 

 Clarke that there is little to separate this form specifically from S. suhtnincatum; this 

 is true, but there seems ecfi;ally little to separate it specifically from S. hifloritm. Its 

 glabrous condition, however, at once distinguishes it from both as, if not a species, at 

 least a very marked form. ^ 



5. Solanum bifloeum. Lour. Mor. Cochin-Chin. 129. An erect 

 more or less pubescent shrub, 3 to 6 feet high ; the young shoots often 

 flocculose. Leaves membranous, elliptic or oblong, acuminate, base 

 narrow^-cuneate, entire; 3 to 5 in. long, 1*5 to 1"75 in. wide; green on 

 both sides, setulose-pubescent, rarely giabrescent with age; petiole '7 in. 

 long. Flotoers small, clustered in axillary fascicles of 2 to 6 together, 

 or solitary ; pedicels slender, -65 in. long. Calyx setulose-pubescent, 

 the margin usually 10-toothed rarely 7-9-toothed; teeth narrowly 

 lanceolate, setulose, -15 in. long. Corolla white, externally glabrous, 

 rotate, 5-lobed, "25 in. across. Ovary and style glabrous. Fruit 

 globose, yellow, -25 in. in diam., resting on the saucer-shaped calyx 

 with persisting teeth. Seeds -1 in. in diam., almost smooth. Dun. in 

 DC. Prod. XIII. 178 ; Kurz For. Plor. Burm. II. 224 ; Clarke in Hook 

 f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 232. S. decemdentatum, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 16, 

 and Flor. Ind. I. 565 ; Wall. Cat. 2614 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 643. 

 S. mollis simum, Bl. Bijdr. 698. S. decemfidum, Nees Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. XVII. 43. S. Zollingeri, Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 176. 



Malacca : Griffith ! Singapoee : Wallich {fide Clarke). — Disteib. 

 Throughout Indo-China and the Malay Archipelago. 



Though so plentiful in the countries both south and north of the Malay Peninsula, 

 this seems very rare in our area where S. Blumei appears to replace it. 



6. Solanum feeox, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. II. 267. i\.n erect prickly 

 shrub, 3 to 10 feet high, with a short soft-wooded trunk 2 to 3 in. thick ; 



