1896.] D. Prain — Some additional Solanaceac. 5-13 



This plant has long been known in Herbaria ; it has been issued as S. (jracili[ien 

 from Herb. Calcutta and as 8. indicum var. from llorb. Pouna but obviously is not 

 referable to either species. 



It stands very nearly intermediate between 8. gracilipes and 8. trilobahun. 

 With 8. gracilipes it agrees in having the leaves unarmed and cordate at the base 

 nnd in having unarmed peduncles and pedicels; it differs in having more deeply 

 lobed leaves, more numerous flowers, broader and shorter calyx-lobes, shorter 

 stouter and compressed not conical prickles. With 8. trilohahtm it agrees in 

 iiaving lobed leaves and in having compressed prickles ; it differs in having the 

 leaf-bases cordate ; in having the leaves, peduncles and pedicels unarmed and in 

 being densely persistently woolly in all its parts. 



In tomentum and general appearance it closely resembles 8. albicaule Kotschy 

 with which it agi-ees in flower and in fruit. But the leaves of 8. albicaule are less 

 deeply lobed, and are rather narrower and more acute ; its prickles too are conical 

 as in S. gracilipes not compressed as in 8. trilohatum and 8. scindicum. The whole 

 facies of 8. scindicum is quite unlike that of 8. indicum, the other species with 

 which it has been compared; the prickles on the branches are much less recurved 

 in S. indicum ; the leaves are armed on the nerves beneath in that species, and 

 the peduncles and calyx-lobes are beset with long straight slender prickles. 



8. SCOPOLIA Jacq. 



1. SCOPOLIA LURIDA JDimal. 



Add to localities of F. B. T. :— 



Kamaon : Kutti valley, Dulhie n. 3215 ! u. 5834 ! 



10. HYOSCYAMUS Linn. 



26. Hyoscyamus reticulatus Linn. 8p, PL ed. 2. 257 ; cauline 

 leaves sessile ovate-lanceolate acute piiinatifid lobes acute, flowers 

 subsessile, calyx sparsely pubescent teeth large triangular mucronate, 

 corolla dirty yellow purple-veined. Bunal JDG. Prodr. xiii. 1. 547 ; 

 Boiss. Flor. Orient, iv. 295. H. Camerarii Fiscli. & Mey. Ind. Sem. 

 Petrop. iv. 38 ; Bunal., DG. Prodr. xiii. i. 547. H. pinnatifidus ScJilecht. 

 Linnsea (1843). 127. 



British Bkluchistan: Quetta, Stocks! Lace! Duthie ! Kurram 

 Valley : Aitcliison ! 



Densely pubescent with short glandular tomentnm and long white hairs inter- 

 mixed. Leaves 5 in. long, 1-1 5 in. wide. Lower pedicels in fruit "3 to "5 in. Calyx 

 in flower "65 in. teeth longish triangular, in fruit 1'25 by '5 in. subcontracted in the 

 middle, teeth '5 in. long rigid. Capsule "5 in. in diam. seeds '05 in. in diam. 



Nearest to H. niger but easily distinguished by its much hu'ger calyx-teeth. 



