236 oil. SOLANACEJ). (0. B. Clarke.) [Solanum. 



22. S. coagrulans, Forth. Fl. ^g.-Arah. 47; leaves ovate anuate or 

 lobed stellately woolly teneath prickly, cymes lateral few-fld., calyx-lobes tri- 

 angular, flowers blue, beiTy globose glabrous yellow exceeding tke prickly 

 calyx-lobes. Delih Fl. Mg. t. 23, flg. 1 ; Dunal in DC. Proch: xiii. pt. i. 369 ; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 286. S. sanctum, Idnn. Sp. PI. 269. 



W. India ; Punjab and Scinde, Jcuiqiuemont, Aitohison, &c. — DisTEm. S.W. Asia, 

 Arabia, Egypt. 



Very near S. Melongena, more rigid and tomentose. Peduncles paired, one bearing 

 a single perfect flower, the other a raceme of males. Calyx-tube eampanulate, often 

 in flower-time strongly spinous. Corolla as of S. Melongena, more woolly without, 

 lobes rather deeper. Berry 1 in. diam. 



23. S. sarmentosum, Nees in^ Trans. lAnn. Soe. xvii. 68; sparsely 

 hairy, leaves broadly elliptic subpinnatifid prickly, peduncles extra-axUlary 1-2- 

 fld,, berry ^ in. diam., globose glabrous overtopped by the enlarged ovate 

 acuminate-caudate sepals. Dunal in DC. Prodi: xiii. pt. i. 357. S. Melongena, 

 Wall. Cat. 2628, letter F only. S. Jacquini, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 651, excl. 



syn., not of Willd. 



Penang ; Waliich. Malacca ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6914). — Disteib. Java, 

 Borneo. 



Stem procumbent, somewhat zigzag, not twining ; prickles long, straight. Leaves 

 4 by 2 in., obtusely lobed, young sparsely stellately pubescent beneath, mature 

 sparsely hairy or glabrate on both surfaces; petiole | in. Sepals in flower J in., 

 in fruit f by I in., erect, sparsely hairy, usually prickly. Corolla | in. diam., stellately 

 pubescent without. Seeds ^ in. diam., flocculose-scaly. 



24. S. xanthocarpum, Schrad. ^ Wendl. Sert. Hanov. i. 8, t. 2; 

 leaves ovate or elliptic sinuate or. subpinnatifid glabrescent very prickly, cymes 

 lateral few-fld., corolla blue, berry J-f in. diam. globose glabrous much exceed- 

 ing the calyx-lobes. Dunai Sol. 231, and in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 302 ; Kv/rz 

 For. Fl. 224. S. Jacquini, WiiU. Sp. PI. i. 1041 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 569 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 2612 ; Dwnal Sol. 231 ; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 56 ; Wight Ic. t. 

 1401 ; Dalz. ^ ftfo. Bomb. Fl. 175. S. diffusum, Boxb. HoH. Beng. 17, and 

 Fl. Ind. i. 568 ; Wall. Cat. 2613. S. virginianum, Jacq. Ic. Bar. ii. 332, not 

 of Linn. S. armatum, Br. Prodr. 446 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, iv. 458, with syn. 



Throughout Inuia ; from the Punjab and Assam to Ceylon and Malacca ; common. 

 — Disteib. S.E. Asia, Malaya, Trop. Australia and Polynesia. 



A very prickly, diifuse herb, 1-4 ft. diam., bright green, mature nearly glabrous. 

 Leaves i-b by 2-3 in. ; spines 5 in., straight ; petiole 1 in. Peduncles short, mostly 

 extra-axillary ; flowers few, all perfect ; pedicels and calyx stellately pubescent, or 

 at length glabrous. Calyx in flower f in. ; lobes ovate-oblong, usually prickly, 

 hardly enlarged in fruit. Corolla 1 in. diam., pubescent without; lobes shallow. 

 Berry yellow, or whitish and green-blotched. Seeds J- in. diam., glabrous. — Has 

 been supposed to extend to Tropical Africa (see Schweinf. PI. Nilot. 26, t. 9) ; but in 

 the African plant the flowers are larger, the fruit very much larger, the habit 

 different. 



25. S. trilobatum, Linn. ; Burm. Fl. Ind. 57, t. 22 ; shoots stellately 

 pubescent, leaves ovate or elliptic irregularly sinuate or lobed prickly soon 

 glabrate, cymes lateral 2-8-fld., corolla blue, berry ^ in. diam. glotose much 

 exceeding the calyx-lobes. Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 571 ; Wall. Cat. 2622 ; Dwnal Sol. 

 225, and in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 287; Wight Ic. t. 854; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bimb. 

 Fl. 175 ; Kurz For. Fl. 224. S. acetosBBfolium, Lamh. Diet. iv. 306 ; Dunal 

 Sol. 226. S. canaranum, Miq. in PI. Hohenack. n. 740. 



W. Deccan Peninsola; from the Concan, southward, &e., frequent. Malay 



