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Tacemes. Calyx green, the tube slightly spiny. Corolla violet or purplish, 

 rotate, shallowly 5-lobed, nearly 2 cm in diameter. Stamens yellow. Fruit 

 globose, glabrous, 2.5 cm in diameter, green mottled with white, or yellow- 

 ish, the accrescent calyx nearly 2 cm in diameter. (Fl. Filip. pi. ^9.) 



In waste places, occasional, fl. more or less all the year; widely distributed 

 in the Philippines. An endemic species reduced by some authors to So- 

 larium melongena, L., of which it may be a wild form. 



5. S. TOEVUM Sw. Tandang-aso, Talampay (Tag.). 



A coarse, erect, branched, suffrutescent herb 1 to 3 m high, the branches 

 with short scattered spines, most parts stellate-pubescent. Leaves ovate 

 to oblong-ovate, 10 to 20 cm long, sinuate-lobed, acuminate, base inequi- 

 lateral. Inflorescence lateral, usually extra-axillary, racemose, often dicho- 

 tomous. Flowers many, white, about 1 cm long. Fruit globose, yellow, 

 glabrous, about .1 cm in diameter. 



In v/aste places, occasional, fl. all the year; widely distributed about towns 

 in the Philippines, undoubtedly introduced. Tropical America; tropical 

 Asia, and Malaya. 



* 6. S. ATHEOANTHUM Dunal. 



A slender, scandent, nearly glabrous vine about 2 m high,~the branches 

 and petioles armed with recurved spines. Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, 

 irregularly and coarsely sinuate, 2 to 5 cm long, apex rounded, base sub- 

 truncate, often inequilateral. Racemes lateral, few-flowered, about as 

 long as the leaves. Flowers long-pedicelled, pale-blue, about 1.5 cm in 

 diameter. Fruit globose, glabrous, about 1 cm in diameter. 



In hedges along roadsides, near the Balic-balic cemetery fl. July-De\:., 

 and probably in other months; known in the Philippines only from Manila.. 

 A native of Java and undoubtedly of recent introduction here. 



* 7. S. WENDLANDII Hook. f. 



A climbing glabrous vine reaching a length of several meters, the stems 

 with a few scattered prickles. Leaves variable, simple and entire to deeply 

 pinnately lobed or even pinnately compound, 10 to 25 cm long, oblong to 

 oblong-ovate in outline, the midrib often with scattered prickles beneath, 

 the lobes, when present, few, often only 3, oblong, elliptic, or ovate, acute 

 or acuminate, close or distant. Cymes large, many-flowered, the corolla 

 pale-blue, about 4 cm in diameter. 



Singalon, Malate, etc., in gardens, cultivated, fl. June and probably in 

 other months. A native of tropical America of recent introduction here. 



In addition to the above species the potato (Sp. patatp,) (Solanum 

 tuberosum L.) is imported and is always to be found in the Manila market. 

 This species is a native of tropical America and is now cultivated in all 

 warm countires. In the Philippines it is successfully cultivated only at 

 medium or higher altitudes. 



6. LYCOPERSICUM Miller 



Coarse, ascending or spreading, pubescent, rank-scented, annual 

 herbs. Leaves alternate, pinnate or bipinnate, the leaflets unequal in 

 size, toothed or lobed. Flowers in extra-axillary, few-flowered racemes 

 or cymes. Sepals 5 or 6, linear-lanceolate, spreading, acuminate. Corolla 

 yellow, the tube short, the lobes 5 or 6, lanceolate, spreading. Stamens 5 or 

 6, inserted on the corolla-tube; anthers connivent in an elongated cone. 

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