Solanum. | SOLANACER. 227 
about $ an in. in diameter, stellate-pubescent outside, the lobes 
nearly 4 lin. long, recurved ; berries globular, the size of a large pea, 
supported by the 5-lobed sparingly prickly calyx, smooth and glossy, 
yellow or orange-yellow; seeds an wg irregularly oval-reni- 
form, minutely and indistinctly scrobiculate 
Has.—Common in rubbi shy places, deserted to toungyas, savannahs, along 
Franks, “sat gaLare over + Burma from Chittagong and A Tenasse 
QO = 
6. §. spirale, Roxb.—An evergreen branched shrub, unarmed, 
all parts glabrous ; leaves more or less lanceolate to elliptically lanceo- 
late, at the cuneate base decurrent in a shorter or longer (up to an 
in. ‘long) petiole, 2-4 in. long, shortly acuminate, entire, a 
glabrous; flowers rather small, white, on slender $-1 long 
pedicels, forming a leaf-opposed, short-peduncled, slender, lat, glab- 
rous raceme 1-2 in. long; corolla deeply 5-cleft, the lobes oblong, 
spreading, about 3 lin. long ; calyx shallowly cup-shaped, about 23 
In. wide, truncate, smooth ; berries globular, supported b na 
explanate shallowly-lobed membranous ¢ calyx, the size of a large 
or small cherry, smooth an glossy, yellow; seeds obliquely eco 
reniform, compressed, smo 
Has.—Ava.—Fr, Feb. 
GARDNERIA, Wall. 
Calyx 4-5-parted or -lobed, the lobes very blunt. Corolla al- 
most rotate, deeply 4-5-cleft, the lobes thick, valvate in bud. 
Stamens 4 or 5, cnr at the corolla-throat ; anthers almost ses- 
sile, conniving or almost connate. Ovary 2 2-celled, with solitary 
ovules attached laterally to the septum; style filiform, with a 2- 
lobed stigma. Berry globose, fleshy, 2-celled and usually 2-seeded. 
Seeds Me ee as, peltately attached with a hollow large base. 
shy ; embryo small, straight, the radicle inferior.— 
Scandent shrubs, with simple opposite leaves. Flowers small, in 
trichotomous panicles or cymes 
G. o vata, Wall_—A scandent evergreen shrub, all parts quite 
sii ave lanceolate to ovate- and oblon ng-lanceolate, acute 
at the ase, on a ee! petiole up be 2 in. long, acuminate, 23-34 
; b 
Steenish white, on liform 4 in. long cated, minutely 2-bracteolate 
at the middle, pean y threes on a filiform or slender glabrous 
Ag isi the axils of the leaves; calyx minute, the 4 
bes rounded ; sirclla Inte very thick, 4 in “number, about. 1$ lin. 
nS» Ovate, acute; anthers erect-connivent ; berries globular, aay, 
Size of a pea, smooth, 2-seeded ; seeds grey, smooth, 
Hap Ava, hills towards Assam.—Fl. May. 
