334 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



quite unarmed ; petiole 1 in. long. Floivers large, on extra-axillary 

 often paired peduncles, one peduncle with a solitary perfect flower the 

 other with a few-flowered raceme of male flowers ; peduncles stellate- 

 tomentose, very rarely prickly. Calyx shortly funnel-shaped, densely 

 pubescent; lobes oblong-acute ; '25 to -35 in. long, enlarging slightly in 

 fruit, usually armed. Corolla blue, externally pubescent, 1 to 1'25 in. 

 across, 5-lobed, lobes oblong-acute, short. Ovary glabrous; style 

 stellate-pubescent or at times glabrous. Fruit large, ovoid, obovoid, 

 ellipsoid, or cyHndric ; usually dark purple, often with white spots or 

 streaks, sometimes uniformly white or yellowish, always glabrous, 

 sometimes as much as 6 in. long and always much longer than the 

 calyx. Seeds -12 in. in diam., slightly scrobiculate. Lour. Flor. Cochin- 

 Chin. 130; Eoxb. Flor. Ind. I. 566; Miq. Elor. Ind. Bat. II. 653 ; Clarke 

 in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 235. S. insanum, Eoxb. Flor. Ind. I. 568. 

 S. undatum, Lamk Encyc. IV. 301 ; Bl. Bijdr. 700. S. longum, Eoxb. 

 Hort. Beng. 16, and Flor. Ind. I. 567. S. ijseudo-undatum, Bl. Bijdr. 

 699. S. ovigerum, Bl. Bijdr. 698. S. Trongum, Lamk Encyc. IV. 308. 

 S. ferox var. Trongum, Kurz For. Flor. Burm. II. 226. 



In all the provinces, cultivated ; occasionally also as an escape from 

 cultivation or sub-feral {e.g., at Trang, King's Collector 1416!) 



The Egg-Plant, or Brinjal, largely cultivated in all warm countries; originally 

 American. As an escape this species tends to become more prickly and to have 3 to 4 

 fruits on the peduncle, owing to the males being replaced by perfect flowers. In such 

 cases the fruits are much smaller and often approach, or sometimes even attain a 

 globose form. 



10. SoLANUM SARMENTOSUM, Nees Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 58. A 

 straggling prickly shrub with procumbent zigzag branches, 2 to 3 feet 

 long ; all parts sparsely hairy and covered with long, straight, sharp 

 prickles. Leaves membranous, broadly elliptic, sub-pinnatifid, lobes 

 obtuse, sub-glabrescent above, sparsely stellately pubescent and prickly 

 beneath ; 4 in. long, 2 in. across, the lobes '75 in. deep ; green on both 

 sm-faces ; petioles -6 in. long. Floioers large, with thickish pedicels 

 on 1-2-flowered, extra-axillary peduncles about 1 in. long, sparsely 

 stellate-pubescent. Calyx with very shortly funnel-shaped tube, lobes 

 ovate-acuminate -2 in. long, sparsely hairy and prickly, much enlarged 

 in fruit. Corolla blue, externally pubescent, -7 in. across ; lobes 

 oblong-acute. Ovary glabrous. Fruit yellowy globose, glabrous, '5 in. 

 across, overtopped by the enlarged caudate-acuminate, adpressed, 

 armed calyx-lobes, -75 in. long and -35 in. wdde. Seeds "12 in. in 

 diam., scrobiculate. Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 357 ; Clarke in Hook. f. 

 Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 236. S. Melongena, Wall. Cat. 2628 (F. only— not 

 of Linn.). S. Jaccpiini, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. 11. 651 {not of Willd.). 



