Solanum.] SOLANACE. 745 
Racemes many-flowered; calyx-lobes triangular- vor, un- 
altered in fruit; berry small, globose, one-thir an inch 
oblong, enlarged in fruit ; berry large, globose, rarely o 
semi-wild plants, and then at least -75. in. across, some ans 
overtopped by the calyx; ovate, elliptic, or oblong, rl 
globose in cultivated forms, and then 2-9 in. long, much e 
ceeding the calyx :— 
Fruiting peduncle solitary, with usually a ares Perea 
| ing raceme of sterile flowers ; ae i ed form 
| Stems, leaves, and calyx unarmed Melongena 
Stems, leaves, and calyx ‘titan with prickles 
Melongena var. esculenta. 
Fruiting peduncle 3-4-flowered; stems, leaves, and calyx 
armed with prickles ; spontaneous or sponta us forms - 
ongena var. insana, 
*Stems not erect ; leaves glabrescent :—[p. 7 - 
| Herbaceous, diffuse; leaves 4 in. long or longer, elliptic, 
| ole sinuate or ah insects very prickly ; berry + See an 
| inch o 
Shr fubty, Scena or trailing ; leaves 3 in. long or less, ovate, 
irregularly shallow-sinuate or lobed, sparsely prickly, at first 
finely woolly, but soon almost glabrous ; berry ba game of an 
inch across or less tum 
1382, epee TUBEROSUM Linn. ; : PL Bids iy, 220): dD, 
S. 2320. 
Cultivated sparingly. 
A herb with tuberous underground branches. Vernac. 
Alu. The Potato. 
1383. Sonanum nickum Linn.; F. B. I. iv. 229; E. D. 8. 2299. 
S. rubrum F. I, i. 565. 
In all the provinces. 
; A small, herbaceous weed of = and waysides. Hind. 
j Makoi; Beng. Gurkhi, gur 
1384. Soran SPIRALE Roxb.; F. Li i, * see; F.:B. I. iv. 280; 
E. D. 8. 2811. 
E. Bengal, Mymensingh. 
An undershrub or shrub, 4-12 feet high. Vernac, 
Bagna, 
