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adapted to insect-visits. In many cases they remain 

 open only for a day or even a few hours, and then 

 close permanently (pseudo-cleistogamous). 



Nat. Order 20. Solanacece. — Herbs or shrubs. 

 Leaves alternate. Flowers regular, often in cymes. 

 Sepals and petals as in Convolvulacece. Stamens 5, 

 epipetalous, with anthers often apparently connate, 

 with porous dehiscence. Carpels as in Convolvulacece; 

 ovules many in each cell. 

 Fruit as in Convolvulacece, 

 only many-seeded and not 

 four-seeded as in the latter. 



The Order is chiefly tropical. 

 Common plants: belati-aloo, 

 aloe, or gol- (round) aloo or 

 Potato {Solanum tuberosum), 

 the tuberously- grown under- 

 ground branches of which 

 form the Potato; begoon or 

 Brinjal or Egg-plant {Solanum 

 Melongefia), the fruits of which 



are used as a common vege- 



Fig. 214.- 



-Ram-begoon (Solatium 

 ferox) 



table; kuli-begoon or puli- 

 begoon or Long-Brinjal (Solanum Melongena var. 

 esculenta), also used as a vegetable; belati-begoon 

 or Tomato {Lycopersicum esculentuni), the red globose 

 pulpy fruits of which are much esteemed for making 

 sauce; kanti-kari (Solanum xanthocarpum), a prickly 

 herb of waste places, used as a medicinal plant by the 

 Indian physicians; S. ferox or ram-begoon (fig. 214) 

 is a stout prickly herb ; lanka or lanka-marich or jhal 

 or Chillie or Cayenne pepper is a scarlet or orange- 

 yellow fruit produced by several cultivated species and 

 varieties of Capsicum, and used as a common condi- 

 ment; tepari or Cape Gooseberry (Physalis peruvi- 



