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Calyx with a sub-entire margin ; flowers white ; leaves 
glabrous ; epiphytic . . . . . . . . 3. S. parasiticum. 
Calyx with a distinctly 10-toothed margin ; terrestrial : — 
Leaves glabrous ; calyx with 5 long teeth and 5 very 
short intermediate toothlets ; corolla-lobes purplish ; 
berry dark blue . . . . . . . . 4. S. Blumei. 
Leaves usually puberulous to pubescent, rarely almost 
glabrous ; calyx with 10 long teeth ; corolla white ; berry 
yellow . . . . . . . . . . 5. S. Uflorum. 
Armed herbs with prickly stems and usually prickly leaves ; 
corolla pubescent externally : — 
Densely stellate-tomentose throughout 
Calyx not overtopping the berry ; erect herbs or shrubs : — 
Flowers white : — 
Leaves very prickly especially on the nerves beneath ; 
ovary hirsute ; fruit hispid with acicular hairs . . 6. S. ferox. 
Leaves with very few prickles ; ovary and fruit 
glabrous . . . . . . . . 7. S. torvum. 
Flowers blue 
Bacemes many-flowered ; berry small, yellow, globose 8. S. indicum. 
Bacemes few-flowered ; berry large, purple, rarely white 
or yellow, often in cultivation ellipsoid or elongate . . 9. S. Melongena. 
Calyx overtopping the berry ; a spreading shrub . . 10. S. sarmentosum. 
Thinly beset with minute hairs ; berry large, smooth ; calyx 
very prickly . . . . . . . . . . 11. S. aculeatissimuin. 
1. Solanum nigrum, Linn. Sp. PL 186. A herb or undershrub, 
1 to 3 feet high ; all parts sparingly pubescent or glabrous. Leaves 
petioled, membranous, ovate or oblong, narrowed towards apex and base, 
sinuate-toothed or -lobed ; 3 to 4 in. long, 2 in. across ; green on both 
surfaces ; petioles '75 in. long. Flowers small, sub-umbellately clustered 
on stoutish extra-axillary peduncles ’35 to '75 in. long; pedicels 5 to 8 
together, slender, -35 in. long. Calyx sparsely puberulous, 5-toothed ; 
teeth small, ovate-oblong, -05 in. long, in fruit hardly noticeable. 
Corolla white, rarely purplish, externally glabrous, - 5 in. wide, rotate, 
5-lobed. Ovary glabrous ; style hairy at base. Fruit red or black, 
rarely yellow, globose, -25 in. across, supported by the saucer-shaped 
calyx. Seeds -05 in. in diam., almost smooth. Bl. Bijdr. 694 ; 
Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 150 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 636 ; Kurz For. 
Flor. Burm. II. 224 ; Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Br. Ind. IY. 229. S. rub- 
rum, Boxb. Flor. Ind. I. 565. S. triangulare, Lamk 111. II. 18. S. 
uliginosum, Bl. Bijdr. 695. S. Rwmphti, Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 57. 
S. rhinocerotis , Bl. Bijdr. 695. 
Singapore : Ridley 8084 ! Perak : Kota Bahru, King’s Collector 
566 ! Andamans : King's Collectors ! Nicobaes : Kurz ! — Distrib. 
Tropics generally. 
2. Solanum veebascifolium, Linn. Sp. PL 184. An erect unarmed 
shrub, 8 to 20 feet high ; all parts thickly stellate-tomentose, the 
