Solamim.] cii. solanacbj!. (C. B. Clarke.) 233 



insect. At all events, normal unthickened flowers abound.— Leaves cooked and eaten 

 in Sikkim (J. D. H.). 



** Prickly, some varieties of S. Mehngena rarely unarmed. 



14. S.^ig'anteum, Jacq. Coll. iv. 125, and Ic. Bar. ii. t. 328; subar- 

 boreous, spinous, leaves oMong cuneate at both ends, and cymes stellately white 

 woolly beneath, cymes terminal dense many-fld. steUately white woolly, berry 

 ^ in. diam. glabrous. Dunal Sol. 202, and in BC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 258 ; Nees 

 in Trans. lAnn. Sac. xvii. 47 ; £ot. Mag. t. 1921 ; Wight ^ Arn. in Ann. Nat. 

 Mist. i. 395, t. 13 ; Wight Ic. t. 893 ; Balz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Ft. 175. S. niveum, 

 Vahl 8ymh. ii. 41. S. farinosum. Wall. Cat. 2610, and in Roxh. Fl. Ind. ed. 

 Carey §• Wall. ii. 255. S. argenteum, Seyne in Serb. Hottler. 



Mts. of S. Deccan and Ceyion, alt. 3-7000 ft., frequent ; Wight, Thwaites, &c. 



Often 1 0-26 feet high ; but in cultivation flowers at 4 feet high ; stem thick, 

 soft, prickly, stellately -white-woolly. Leaves 8 by 3 in., entire, undulate; nerves 

 impressed on the upper surface ; petiole 2 in. Pedicels very short, in fruit j-J in. 

 Calyx-lobes i in., triangular, in fruit twice as large. Corolla f in. diam., blue ; tube 

 Dearly as long as the lobes. OBory puberulous. 5eea!s ^ in. diam.,- glabrous. 



15. S. ferox, lAnn. ; Dunal Sol, 223, and in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 255; 

 densely stellately woolly, leaves ovate with short triangular lobes, racemes 

 lateral dense, corolla white, berry 1-lJ in. diam. globose mrsute -with needle- 

 like hairs grea,tly exceeding the ovate-triangular calyx-lobes. Nees in Traits. 

 lAnn. Soc. x-vii. 52 (excl. syn. S. involucratum, Blume) ; Wight Ic. t. 1399 

 (excl. var. minus) ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 226, partly, and excl. var. (3). S. lasio- 

 carpum, Blume Bijd. 701 ; Wall. Cat. 2623 ; Dwnal Sol. 222, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 252. S. hirsutum, Roxb. Sort. Beng. 17, and Fl. Ind. ed. 

 Carey Sf Wall. ii. 253. S. stramonifolium, Dunal Sol. 222, and DC. Prodi: 

 xiii. pt. i. 252, not of Jacq. nor of Wall. — Rheede Soit. Mai. ii. 85. 



Easteen and Sodtheen India, in the tropical zone, frequent ; from Assam to 

 Ceylon and to Tenasserim. — Disteib. Hongkong. 



Stem herbaceous, stout, 2-4 feet, sub-erect, prickly. Leaves 8 by 6 in., closely 

 villous above, stellately fulvous-wooUy beneath, lobes 1 in. deep, prickly especially 

 on the nerves ; petiole 2^ in. Fedmicles usually close below the leaves, short ; 

 racemes densely stellately woolly and with needle-like hairs, not prickly. Calyx 

 shortly funnel-shaped ; lobes J in., ovate-triangul3x not acuminate. Corolla densely 

 woolly without, lobes |-1 in., oblong, acute. Ovary hirsute. Berry yellow, needle- 

 like hairs ^-J in., fulvous, spreading ; fruit-pedicels ^-1 in. ; calyx-lobes in fruit 

 -unaltered, hardly \ the length of the berry. Seeds ^ in. diam., nearly smooth. — 

 S. involucratum (Blume Bijd. 701), the Malay spebies. reduced to 8. ferox by Nees, 

 has the calyx-lobes produced, in fruit 1 in., ova^linear, -with slender prickles, enclos- 

 ing the berry. ^ 



16. S. barbisetiim, Nees in Trans. lAnn. Soc. xvii, 51 ; hirsute, leaves 

 ■ovate with short triangular lobes, racemes lateral elongate many-flowered, 

 corolla blue lobes lanceolate acuminate, berry \ in. diam. globose glabrous en- 

 closed by the prickly calyx. Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 250. S. erio- 

 phorum, Dwnal I.e. 249. S. involucratum, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 224, not of 

 Blume. 



1 rom N. Bbngai, and Assam to Tbnassbkim, in the subtropical region, alt. 1-5000 

 ft., frequent, Wallich, Griffith, H.f. S; T., &c. 



In general appearance, and in the leaves, resembling & ferox, but with close 

 clustered fine hairs, scarcely woolly. Bacemes 2-6 in. ; pedicels very many, ^1 in., 

 deflexed after flower. Calyx-lobes i-|- in., oblong-lanceolate. Corolla-lobes very 

 narrow, a«ute. Calyx in fruit enlarged, tube subglobose with deflexed prickles, teeth 

 ■closed over the berry. Seeds more than ^ in. diam., minutely villous. 



