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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
1-celled by abortion, or 4-celled by subsequent development of accessory 
dissepiments ; style linear ; stigma capitate or shortly lobed ; ovules 
indefinite, on peltate intruded placentas. Fruit indehiscent, berry-like 
or capsular and opening by valvular or circumscissile dehiscence ; 
usually 2-eelled, rarely 4-celled, many-seeded. Seeds compressed, 
disc-like or sub-reniform with embryo peripheric ; occasionally ( Nico - 
liana ) hardly compressed and with embryo straight. — D istrib. Species 
about 1,300, throughout tropical and sub-tropical countries. 
Fruits berry-like, 2-celled, indehiscent; seeds compressed and em- 
bedded in pulp : — 
Anthers opening by 2 small pores at the tips ; fruits globular (in 
S. Melongena sometimes elongated) .. .. ..1. Solanum. 
Anthers dehiscing throughout longitudinally : — 
Calyx in fruit small, fruits usually elongated . . . . 2. Capsicum. 
Calyx in fruit enlarging and enveloping the globose berry . . 3. Physalis. 
Fruits capsular : — 
Capsules 4-celled and 4-valved, or sometimes hardly dehiscing ; 
seeds compressed ; flowers solitary . . . . . . 4. Datura. 
Capsules 2-celled, dehiscing freely ; seeds hardly compressed ; flowers 
in panicles . . . . . . . . . . 5. Nicotiana. 
1. Solanum, Linn. 
Armed or unarmed herbs, shrubs, or small trees. Leaves alternate 
or sub-opposed in unequal pairs, entire, lobed or pinnatifid. Cymes 
dichotomous or racemose, lateral or terminal. Calyx usually 5-lobed, 
rarely 10-lobed or sub-entire, sometimes enlarging in fruit. Corolla- 
tube short, rotate or very shortly campanulate ; limb 5-lobed, plicate in 
bud. Stamens 5, with short filaments, adnate to throat of corolla ; 
anthers oblong, narrowed upwards so that the two cells form a cone 
opening at the tip by terminal pores. Ovary 2-celled (in cultivated 
forms sometimes 3-4-celled) ; style columnar, stigma small. Fruit 
berry-like but with calyx at base, rarely overtopping it, globose or 
(larely) elongated. Seeds very numerous, disk-like; embryo peripheric. 
Distrib. Species 750, mostly tropical American, but spread 
throughout all tropical and sub-tropical regions. 
Unarmed herbs or shrubs : — 
Flowers in extra-axillary peduncled cymes or racemes : — 
Leaves glabrous or sparingly pubescent ; cymes sub-um- 
bellate ; calyx-teeth obtuse, 5 ; corolla and ovary glabrous ; 
berry red or black, rarely yellow . . . . . . 1 . S. nigrum. 
Leaves densely stellately woolly ; cymes corymbose ; calyx- 
teeth triangular, 5 ; corolla and ovary hairy ; berry yellow 2. S. verbasci/olium. 
Flowers axillary, pedicels fascicled or solitary ; corolla 
glabrous 
