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tomentum often scurfy. Leaves petioled, thickly herbaceous, ovate- 
lanceolate to lanceolate, acute ; base usually truncate or rounded, rarely 
cuneate ; 4 to 7 in. long, 3 in. across ; green above, white to yellowish- 
brown beneath from the scurfy tomentum ; petioles '5 to 1'5 in. long. 
Flowers small, on thick tomentose pedicels, densely clustered in a small 
tomentose corymb-like cyme on an erect sub-terminal stout peduncle 
1 to 3 in. long. Calyx densely tomentose, 5-toothed ; teeth triangular, 
acute, ’1 in. long in flower. -3 in. long in fruit; tube short. Corolla white, 
externally stellate-tomentose, '6 in. across, rotate, 5-lobed ; lobes short, 
ovate-oblong. Ovary hairy ; style glabrous. Fruit yellow, globose, 
•4 in. wide, the lower portion embraced by the calyx-lobes. Seeds - 12 in. 
in diam., minutely dotted. Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 114; Lour. Flor. 
Cochin-Chin. 128 ; Wall. Cat. 2616 ; Kurz For. Flor. II. 225 ; Clarke 
in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 230 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 640. S. 
pubescens, Bl. Bijdr. 698 ; Roxb. Flor. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 244 
(not of Willd.). 
Selangor : Kwala Lampar, Goodenough ! Perak : King’s Collector 
2069 ! 7177 ! Wray 2357 ! Penang : Deschamps ! Kedah : King's 
Collector 1704 ! Nicobars : Kamorta, Jelinek ! Teressa, King's 
Collectors ! — Distrib. Tropics of both hemispheres. 
3. Solanum parasiticum, Bl. Bijdr. 697. An erect almost glabrous 
epiphytic shrub, 2 to 4 feet high. Leaves short-petioled, rather firmly 
membranous, lanceolate-acuminate, narrowed towards apex and base, 
entire ; 6 to 8 in. long, P5 to 2 in. wide ; green on both surfaces, minutely 
setulose above when young, glabrous beneath ; petiole '25 to -35 in. 
long. Flowers small, clustered in an axillary fascicle of 2 to 7 together 
or sometimes solitary, on slender somewhat rigid glabrous pedicels *6 to 
8 in. long. Calyx glabrous, small, the margin in flower sinuate 
representing either 5 or 10 teeth at most only T in. long ; in fruit 
slightly enlarged, saucer-shaped, the margin quite entire. Corolla 
white, glabrous externally, 5-lobed, rotate ; "25 in. across. Ovary and 
styie glabrous. Fruit yellow, globose, '25 in. in diam., resting on the 
saucer-shaped calyx. Seeds '06 in. in diam., smooth. Nees Trans. 
Linn. Soc. XVII. 45 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 641. 
Perak: Larut, on trees, rather plentiful, Wray ! Scortechini! King’s 
Collector ! — Distrib. Sumatra, Java. 
tsear S. subtruncatum but always epiphytic, and with an even more markedly 
truncate calyx-limb than in that species. 
4. Solanum Blumei Nees ex Bl. in Bijdr. 696. An erect quite 
glabrous shrub, 3 to 4 feet high, with spreading branches. Leaves 
towards top in pairs from one node, usually one smaller, elliptic- 
acuminate at both ends, bases unequal ; 4 to 6 in. long, 2 to 3 in. wide ; 
