226 SOLANACER. [ Solanum. 
aB.—Frequent in rubbishy places, and shrubbery around villages, in 
toungyas and poonzohs, along river banks, etc., all over Burm pesca m Chittagong 
and Ava down to Pegu and Martaban.—FI. Fr. C.S.—1—SS.= 
4. 8. ferox, L.—<Sin-a-de.—An erect shrub or et tree, 8-15 
ft. high, the trunk short, about 1 or 2 in. thick, all softer parts 
thickly covered with a soft velvety or almost woolly tomentum 
intermixed with shorter or longer, sharp, compressed, yellowish or 
brownish prickles ; leaves usually paired, on a strong, woolly-tomen- 
tose, prickly petiole 4-2 in. long , ovate to almost orbicular, irregularly 
sinuate-lobed with the lobes blunt or acute, the larger ones 4-10 
in., the smaller 2-4 in. long and broad, membranous, thick from 
a velvety or woolly tawny tomentum, on the midrib and on the 
rather large, nearly an inch across, white or very pale blue, on 3-3 in 
long, thick, hirsute and ooctsonaly prickly pedicels, forming a short 
contracted umbel- like raceme o shnartete- cluster in the axils 
yellow when ripe, yellowish hirsute; seeds compressed, triangular- 
reniform with rounded angles, indistinctly scrobiculate. 
Var. 2, Trongum (8. trongum, Poir.): more thickly stellate- 
tomentose, the flowers more frequently solitary ; berries somewhat 
larger, losing their hairiness set wholly and turning glossy and 
minutely and sparingly pubescen 
Has.—Var. 1: not unfrequent t 1 forests al houngs and in 
moister hill p pach from ha Pace : gear Gactahan pace ays Tena serim 
usually also caltivated by the pete var. 2: still more frequently cule 
and often seen in deecte toungyas and pbaciceeis places ; also on the Andam 
ere introduced.—Fl. Fr. C.8.—SS.—= 
Hee -—Wood white, very Se 
E.A much branched shrub, 48 #t high) all 4 
5. §. Indicum, N 
softer parts ma, covered with a short stellate tomentum all 
armed with broad, compressed, sharp and somewhat recurved glossy 
prickles ; leaves more or less o vate, serra with the mes 
lobes acute or blunt, obliquely truncate the base, on a 3-1 
long, sparingly but strong-prickly tllat-pubesent petiole, 1 
in, long, bluntish to bluntish acuminate or acute, membranous, ™ 
above thickly covered with a minute stellate tomentum 3 
greyish stellate- tomentose ; flowers rather small, blue or pale- -bin 
on 3-4 lin. long occasionally prickly pedicels, forming a lateral oF 
ae hi terminal rather short stellate-pubescent raceme; calys 
a lin. long, greyish stellate-pubescent, with o r without @ — 
ew prickles, 5-lobed, the lobes lanceolate, acute ; ovis rotate, 
