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64. SOLANACEJE. 
Order LXIY. SOLANACEH3. 
The Xightshade Family. 
FI. perfect regular mostly 5-merous. Cal. inf. gamose- 
palous free persistent (at least by its base) and often leafy 
and enlarged in fr., 5- rarely 4- or 6-toothed, -tid or -partite, val- 
vate or subimbricate in bud. Cor. hypogynous gamopetalous 
caducous mostly rotate or stellate-rotate, sometimes infundibu- 
liforrn or liypocrateriform, limb 5- rarely 4- or 6-parti te or 5- 
angular, lobes sometimes a little unequal, valvate or induplicato- 
valvate in bud. Stain, all perfect alternate with and as many as 
cor. -lobes, inserted on its tube, sometimes unequal ; anthers 
opening by 2 terminal pores or longitudinally, rarely unequal 
and with the lower produced. Ov. 2-celled, sometimes com- 
pletely but mostly more or less incompletely 3-5-celled by 
spurious partial dissepiments ; placentas axile ; ovules numerous 
amphitropal. Style 1 simple terminal ; stigma capitate or 
clavate, simple or 2-lobed. Fr. a more or less juicy many- 
seeded berry (grape or nuculaniwn ) . Seeds numerous com- 
pressed and reniform or lenticular with a hard shelly or bony 
episperm , copious fleshy albumen , mostly curved or spiral (rarely 
straight) terete embryo and semicylindric cot. ; the radicle inf. 
its point directed downwards to the inner basal angle of the 
seed a little below the hilum . — Herbs or shr. rarely tr., with 
watery poisonous or noxious more or less narcotic juices, often 
prickly. L. alternate often geminate upwards by the partial 
development of axillary buds, without true stip., rarely pin- 
natisect. Inflorescence normally cymose (racemiform, corymbi- 
form, paniculate, spicato-fasciculate or umbellate), cymes often 
super- or extraaxillary sometimes reduced to 1 or 2 axillary fl. 
FI. or their pedic. mostly articulate to ped. or rachis and Small, 
w., p., lilac, v. or purple, rarely fragrant. 
A. Gyrembryonece ; embryo annular or spiral. 
Tribe I. S0LAXE2E. 
The Potato and Tomato Tribe. 
Cal. small simple very rarely leafy or enlarged in fr. Cor. 
5-stellately or 6-angularly rotate. Anth. at lirst erect and 
connivent or coherent into a cone or pyramid bursting by ter- 
minal pores or longitudinally. Fr. berry-like i. e. a grape or 
nuculanium , mostly juicy. — llerbs or shr. often prickly. Fl. in 
supraaxillary or axillary cymes or rac. rarely reduced to one 
or two fl. 
