Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 333 



648 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Mor. Brit. Ind. IV. 234. S. stramonifolium, 

 Eoxb, Flor. Ind. I. 572. 



Penang : Wallich ! Deschamjjs ! Bidley ! Malacca : Griffith ! 

 Perak : King's Collector 1085 ! Scortechini 60 ! Singapore : Schom- 

 hurgk ! Hullett ! Kunstler 99! Bidley! Andamans: very common. — 

 DisTRiB. Malayan Archipelago, Indo-China, Philippines, China, India, 

 Tropical America. 



This is often exceedingly like the next species, ;S'. indicum, but is easily dis- 

 tinguished by its white flowers and its considerably larger fruits. 



8. SoLANUM INDICUM, Linn. Sp. PI. 187 partly ; Nees in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. XVII. 55. An erect, armed, branching shrub, 4 to 8 feet 

 high ; all young parts thickly covered with a short stellate tomentum, 

 with broad, compressed, sharp, slightly recurved prickles. Leaves 

 membranous or thinly herbaceous, ovate, sinuately lobed, the lobes 

 obtuse or acute, the base obliquely truncate ; 1*5 to 3 in. long, 1 to 

 2 in. wide ; above minutely tomentose, green ; grey from the denser 

 tomentum beneath ; petioles '5 to 1 in. long. Floiuers medium, in 

 lateral or spuriously terminal racemes about 2 "5 to 3 in. long ; pedicels 

 •2 to "3 in. long, sometimes prickly and grey stellate-pubescent, 

 as are the peduncles. Calyx grey stellate-pubescent, 5-toothed, 

 •25 in. long, prickly or not ; the teeth lanceolate-acute, hardly 

 enlarging in fruit. Corolla blue, externally stellate -pubescent, 

 •5 in across, rotate, 5-lobed, the lobes "35 in. long. Ovary glabrous. 

 Fruit yellow or orange, small, supported by the hardly altered calyx, 

 globose, -25 in. in diam. Seeds '15 in. in diam., minutely dotted. 

 Lour. Flor. Cochin-Chin. 131; Eoxb. Flor. Ind. I. 570; Wah. Cat. 

 2626 ; Wight, Ic. t. 346 ; Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 309 ; Miq. Flor. 

 Ind. Bat. II. 651; Kurz For. Fl. Burm. II. 226; Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. 

 Brit. Ind. IV. 234. S. violaceum, Jacq. Fragm. 82, t. 133, f. 1 {not of 

 E. Br.). S. cuneatum, Moench Meth. n. 476 ; Poir. Suppl. III. 743. S. 

 canescens, Bl. Bijdr. 701. S. Junghuhnii, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 649. 



Penang : Wallich ! Selangor : King's Collector 363 ! Perak : 

 Wray 3077 ! Andamans : Prain ! — Distrib. Throughout S.E. Asia. 



This species often is very like S. torviim ; it is readily distinguished by its usually, 

 though not invariably, more numerous prickles, by its blue flowers, and its smaller 

 fruits. 



9. SoLANUM Melonqena, Linn. Sp. PI. 186. A stout erect, sparingly 

 armed herb, 2 to 8 feet high ; all the younger parts covered with a grey 

 soft tomentum. Leaves membranous, ovate or oblong, irregularly 

 sinuately lobed; 3 to 6 in. long, 2 to 4 in. wide; green above, stellately 

 pubescent beneath with a few prickles on the nerves or sometimes 



