224 SOLANACER. [Solanum. 
—Herbs, undershrubs or shrubs, rarely soft-wooded trees, 
cnanann or variously prickly, with alternate, but often paired, 
simple or divided leaves. Flowers rarely solitary, usually in ter- 
minal or lateral cymes or unilateral racemes. 
X Corolla more or less pubescent or tomentose outside. 
© Glabrous or a very thinly sprinkled with minute 
late geet 
Spreading, m armed with long, straight, yellowish prickles : 
leaves acyl sinuate- lobed berries the size of a cherry << xanthocarpum. 
Scandent, less armed with r oe prickles; leaves slightly 
lobed ; ovian.t the size of a . &. trilobatum. 
OO All parts more or ‘es densely stellate-tomentose. 
+ Flowers in a 
Prickly armed ; leaves more or lias lobed, Jono = ‘ - St 
Unarmed ; leaves —— hickly tom eye verbascifolium. 
++ Flowers in a sisceiud : often “much reduced, rarely 
+ Be ike suite enclosed in the Lise calyx. 
Prickly edna flowers in a lax raceme; berries the size of a pea S. involueratum. 
++ —— tries free, not enclosed, but only supported 
y the calyx. 
Prickly armed; flowers in a Rat short raceme; berries 1-1} in. 
y 
thick, globular, insta o r puberulous . &. ferox. 
ickly armed or rmed, thickly tomentose ;_ fertile flowers 
solitary, the sbute tn mes in a very short raceme ; berries 3-18 in. 
long, oval to elongate-cylindrical, smooth . S&S. melongena. 
Prickly armed ; flowers racemose ; berries globular, the size of a pea S, indicum, 
X X Corolla quite glabrous. 
‘alyx 5-merous. 
Glabrous shrub ; flowers in long racemes, about } in. across ; leaves 
entire . &. spirale. 
Herb, — somewhat pubescent flowers about 3 lin. across in 
umbel-like racemes ften | es ey . &. nigrum. 
Oo i Cal ~~ i0tee . Leaves entire, 
Pubescent ; ‘calyx hirsute : ‘ ‘ : . 8. biflorum. 
Glabrous or r nearly pi calyx glabrous ging - 6  «  « & denticulatum. 
1. S. trilobatum, L.—An evergreen, glabrous, ae shrubby — 
undershrub, 6-12 ft. ‘ong, armed with sharp, recurved, pale-coloured 
prickles ; ieaves small, Selects, irregularly and bluntish 3- to 
5- lobed, on a strongly rec recurv tved-prickly petiole $-1 1 in. long, bee : 
1-24 in. long, glabrous or often sprinkled with minute stellate 
fugaceous hairs, fleshy-membranous, unarmed or with a few re- 
curved prickles on the midrib beneath; flowers rather large 
across or somewhat larger, pale lilac, on slender }-1 in. lon: 
