744 BENGAL PLANTS. (Solanum, 
tyle columnar ; stigma small. Frwit a small or large, globose or 
ea berry. Seeds very many, discoid; embryo peripherie. 
Unarmed ; calyx unaltered or little altered in fruit; sepals never over- 
topping the berry ; flowers always several, in racemes or corymbs, white, 
or if blue (S. tuberosum sometimes) the roots mixed with underground 
tuberous branches ; berry globose, gen rou 
ts mixed with tubers; ste 1 Geena faintly speed ; leaves 
pinnatifid ; flowers ile: blue or white tuberosum. 
Roots not mixed with tubers ; ais round ; flowers small, white 
Leaves and stems glabrous or sparingly hairy ; herbs or vdieeabibalie 
ren lateral, extra-axillary :— 
Leaves ovate or oblong, sinuately lobed ; pedicels subumbellate ; 
he ‘te nigrum. 
Leaves elliptic, acute, entire; pedicels spirally racemose ; hee 
shrubs irale. 
Leaves and stems stellately woolly ; shrubs or small trees ; aula 
subterminal ; corymbs dense, very woolly ; leaves elliptic, acuminate, 
entire 5 i octave 
d with prickles, or if unarmed (some cultivated forms of S. Melon- 
gena), is flowers - the calyx enlarged and the roots not mixed with 
tubers ; racemes lateral :— 
Calyx-tube sa deeply cup-shaped, much enlarged, at first over- 
topping the glabrous, globose berry, ultimately reflexed and exposing 
the fruit ; pila s oblong, pinnatifid or nay sacisaiae: flowers race- 
white or violet ; apn: NOOR. acc seniors seuiasenensss isym rin. 
Belectaks at inflated, shallowly cup-shaped, little aa un- 
altered in fruit, or if one deeply cup-shaped we Melongena somit 
times), the leaves not pinnatifid ; racemes lateral 
owers white; leaves inte - ; calyx ened in fruit; berry 
globose :— 
Leaves very aes on the nerves, with distinct, angular lobes 
and sinuses an inch deep ; corolla densely woolly; berry an inch 
across or larger, hispid with needle-like hairs; a stout t herb 
ered. 
Leaves not prickly on the nerves, with rounded lobes and sinuses 
less than an inch deep; corolla sparsely pubescent; berry one- 
third of an inch across or smaller, smooth ; a w b 
torvum. 
Mesa: spins berry smooth; corolla sparsely pubescen 
: rect; stout herbs or undershrubs; leaves ste woolly, 
mi pth or lobed :—[p. 745] 
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