Solarium.] cii. solanacej:. (C. B. Clarke.) 235 



82, t. 133, fig. 1, not of Br. 8. cuneatum, Momch Sort,. Marb. 476. S. 

 canescens, Blume Bijd. 701. S. pinnatifidum and agreste. Roth Nm. 8p. 129,. 

 130. S. Heynei, Roem. 8r Sch. iSyst. iv. 669. S. Anguivi, Bmr ; Hook. Exot. 

 Fl. t. 199. S. himalense, Dunal I. c. 300. S. Junghuhnii, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat.. 

 ii. 649.— ^wrm. Thes. Zeyl. 220, t. 102 ; Rheede Sort. Mai. ii. t. 36. 



Throughout tropical India; very common, ascending to SOOO ft. — Disteib. 

 Malaya, China to the Philippines. 



An undershrub, 1-6 ft., much branched, very prickly ; prickles compressed, stout, 

 often recurved. Leaves 3-6 by 1-4 in., subentire or pinnatifid ; petiole 1 in. 

 Peduncles short, often extra-axillary ; pedicels J-J in., stellately woolly. Calyx-lohes 

 in flower ^ in., triangular, acute, very woolly, unarmed or with slender straight spines. 

 Corolla |-1 in. diam.,- blue ; lobes broadly triangular, tomentose without. Ovary 

 usually glabrous ; style stellately pubescent. Berry yellow ; calyx-lobes patent, 

 woolly, prickles often strengthened in fruit. Seeds J in. diam. and upwards, smooth 

 or very nearly so. — A Nilgherry form is less prickly, has smaller less lobed leaves, 

 and small corymbs of larger flowers. A plant from the Conc'an is sparsely prickly 

 and has the leaves very sparsely stellate tomentose. A Punjab example of Thomson 

 has branches with very numerous small thin leaves, a monstrosity that occurs in 

 other Indian species of Solannm. 



Vae. mvltiflora, "Wight; rather stronger, more hairy, racemes stouter longer, 

 stellate pubescence of the style extending over the ovary continued on the fruit or- 

 deciduous. S. multiflorum, Eoth Nov. Sp. 130; Boem. ^ Sch. Syst. iv. 669. S. 

 ferox, var. minus, Wight Ic. t. 1400. ' S. torvum, var. /3 inerme, Nees in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xvii. 64; var. y inerme, Dunal in DC. Frodr. xiii. pt. i. 261. S. erosum. Van 

 Hem-cJc ^ Mitell. in Van Hewroh Nov. PI. 83. 



21. S. ItXelon^ena, Linn. ; Nees in Trans. lAnn. Soc. xvii. 49 ; leaves 

 ovate sinuate or lobed stellately woolly beneath pricHy rarely all unarmed, 

 cymes lateral few-fld., calyx-lobes lanceolate, flowers Hue, berry glabrous 

 exceeding the calyx-lobes in cultivation often large ellipsoid or elongate white 

 yellow or dark-purple. Low. Fl. Cochineh. 180 ; JRoxb. Fl. Ind. i. 566 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 2628 ; Wight Ml. t. 166 ; Balz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 61 ; Sendtn. in 

 Mart. Brasil. Sol. 77. S. incanum, Linn. ; Ikmal in DC. Frodr. xiii. pt. i. 368. 

 S. insaniun, lann. Mant. 46 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 568. S. zeilanicum, Scop^ 

 Delia, t. 1. S. undatum, Larnk. Diet. iv. 301 ; Blume Bijd. 700 ; Dv/nal I. c. 

 359. S. Trongum, Lamh. Diet. iv. 308. S. longimi, Roxb. Sort. Bang. 16, 

 and Fl. Ind. i. 567. S. pseudo-undatum, Blume Bijd. 699. S. ovigerum, 

 Blume Bijd. 698 ; Dunal I. e. 357. S. eaculentum, Dimal Sol. 208, t. 3, and in 

 DC. I.e. 355. S. heteracanthum, Dzmai ; Nees I.e. 51; Dunal I.e. 365. S. 

 melanocarpum, sativum, pressum and Oumingii, Dunal I. c. 355, 360, 362 and 

 363. S. torvimi, var. inerme, Dalz. Sr Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 176. 8. ferox, var. 0, 

 Kurz For. Fl. ii. 226, not of Linn. — Rumph Serb. Amb. v. t. 85, and t. 86, 

 fig. 1 ; Rheede Sort. Mai. ii. t. 37, and x. t. 74. 



India ; generally cultivated. — Distkib. Cultivated in the warmer regions of the 

 globe. 



Herbaceous, 2-8 ft. ; prickly, or sometimes nearly unarmed. Leaves 3-6 by 2-4 

 in. ; petiole 1 in. Peduncles mostly extra-axillary, often paired, one bearing a 

 perfect flower, the other a short raceme of male flowers ; or the raceme may be con- 

 sidered sessile with the lowest, flower only perfect. Calyx-lobes in flower |— g in., 

 elliptic or oblong-linear. Corolla 1-H in. diam., shortly lobed, ha,iry on the plaits - 

 without. Style stellately pubescent, or glabrous. Berry 1-9 in., very variable in 

 cultivation ; calyx-lobes enlarged, usually much shorter than the fruit, often prickly. 

 — Not known wild in India, according to Dalzell and Kurz 11. c. ; A. DC. says ii is a 

 native of Asia, not America, and Sendtner 1. c. fixes its origin in Arabia ; all this 

 appears uncertain. As an escape from cultivation it becomes often intensely prickly, 

 and the peduncle carries 1-5 fruits. — The egg-plant, or Brinjal. 



