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all the younger parts thickly covered with a brownish soft tomentum 

 intermixed with many sharp compressed brownish prickles of unequal 

 size. Leaves usually sub-opposite, membranous, ovate to nearly 

 orbicular with irregular short triangular acute or blunt lobes ; 5 to 9 in, 

 long, 3 to 6 in. wide, the lobes often 1 in. deep ; green above, brownish 

 from the tawny tomentum beneath, sparingly beset on midrib and 

 nei'ves with long compressed prickles ; petioles "5 to 2'5 in. long, 

 prickly. Floicers large, on thickish pedicels clustered in few-flowered 

 sub-umbellate short-peduncled racemes set close below the leaves; 

 peduncles and pedicels densely stellate-tomentose and beset with long 

 acicular hah^s. Calyx shortly funnel-shaped, densely hirsute, some- 

 times prickly; lobes ovate-acute, '25 in. long. Corolla white, densely 

 tomentose externally, nearly 1 in. across ; lobes oblong-acute. Ovary 

 hairy. Fruit yellow, globose, 1 in. in diam., hispid with acicular hairs, 

 much exceeding the hardly altered calyx. Seeds -12 in. in diam., very 

 sHghtly scrobiculate. Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 255; Kurz For. PI. 

 Burm. II. 226 {excl. var. /3) ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 646 ; Clarke in 

 Hook. f. Plor. Brit. Ind. IV. 233. S. lasiocarpum, Bl. Bijdr. 701; Wall. 

 Cat. 2623 ; Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 252. S. hirsutum, Eoxb. Hort. 

 Beng. 17, and Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 253. S. stramonifolium, 

 Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 252 {not o/ Jacq., nor o/ Wall, nor o/Eoxb.). 



Penang : Wallich ! Perak : Sungah Eyah, Kunstler 1022 ! Gunong 

 Mesah, King's Collector 1026 ! Singapore : Wallich! Andamans : Port 

 Blair, plentiful. Nicobars : Nancowry, King's Collector I — Distrib. 

 India, Indo-China, S. China, Sumatra, Java. 



7. SoLANUM TORVUM, Sw. Prod. Veg. Ind. Occ. 47. An erect 

 sparingly armed shrubby perennial, 3 to 6, or at times even 8 to 12 feet 

 high ; all parts shortly and sparsely stellate-pubescent, with but few 

 compressed sharp scattered prickles. Leaves usually sub-opposite, 

 membranous, ovate, shortly acuminate, sinuate or lobed, the lobes 

 obtuse or acute, the base truncate very unequal ; 2 to 4 in. long, 1-5 to 

 3 in. across ; rather sparingly pubescent above, more closely sometimes 

 scurfily pubescent beneath ; petioles "5 to 1 in. long. Flotoers medium, 

 in lateral usually extra- axillary corymbose cymes with short pubescent 

 peduncles; pedicels slender, -3 to "4 in. long, pubescent. Calyx 

 sparsely pubescent, 5-toothed, -25 in. long, without prickles, the teeth 

 ovate-lanceolate acute, 4 in. long, not enlarging .in fruit. Corolla 

 white, externally stellate-pubescent, "5 in. across, rotate, 5-lobed, the 

 lobes -3 in. long, lanceolate-acuminate. Ouar?/ glabrous. Ft'uit yellow, 

 supported by the calyx which becomes glabrous in fruit, globular, -4 in. 

 across. Seeds -2 in. in diam., compressed, minutely granular. Dun. 

 in DC. Prod. XIII. 260 ; Wight Ic. t. 345 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. 11. 



