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rather firmly membranous ; lateral nerves 6 to 7 pairs ; petiole '3 in. 
long. Flowers in clusters of 2 to 9, rarely solitary, axillary ; pedicels 
slender, in flower deflexed, in fruit spreading, -75 in. long, thickened 
upwards. Calyx glabrous, limb sub-truncate with 5 subulate, and S 
intervening minute teeth, the longer series *2 to *25 in. long. Corolla 
with white tube and 5 purplish narrow-ovate lobes, '3 in. across. 
Ovary and style glabrous. Fruit globose, dark blue, - 25 in. in diam., 
resting on the saucer-shaped calyx with persisting teeth. Seeds '09 in. 
in diam., almost smooth. Nees Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 45; Dun. in 
DC. Prod. XIII. 180 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 642. 
Selangoe : Ridley ! Pebak : Larut, King’s Collector ! Wray ! 
Curtis ! Ridley ! Scortechini ! Gunong Panti, Kunstler ! — Distbib. 
Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 
The commonest Solatium of its group in our area. It has been suggested by 
Clarke that there is little to separate this form specifically from S. subtruncatmn ; this 
is true, but there seems equally little to separate it specifically from S. bifloruin. Its 
glabrous condition, however, at once distinguishes it from both as, if not a species, at 
least a very marked form. 
5. Solanum biflobum, Lour. Flor. Cochin-Chin. 129. An erect 
more or less pubescent shrub, 3 to 6 feet high ; the young shoots often 
flocculose. Leaves membranous, elliptic or oblong, acuminate, base 
narrow-euneate, entire; 3 to 5 in. long, 1'5 to l - 75 in. wide; green on 
both sides, setulose-pubescent, rarely glabrescent with age; petiole -7 in. 
long. Flowers small, clustered in axillary fascicles of 2 to 6 together, 
or solitary ; pedicels slender, '65 in. long. Calyx setulose-pubescent, 
the margin usually 10-toothed rarely 7—9-toothed ; teeth narrowly 
lanceolate, setulose, -15 in. long. Corolla white, externally glabrous, 
rotate, 5-lobed, '25 in. across. Ovary and style glabrous. Fruit 
globose, yellow, *25 in. in diam., resting on the saucer-shaped calyx 
with persisting teeth. Seeds *1 in. in diam., almost smooth. Dun. in 
DC. Prod. XIII. 178 ; Kurz For. Flor. Burm. II. 224 ; Clarke in Hook 
f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 232. S. decemdentatum, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 16, 
and Flor. Ind. I. 565 ; Wall. Cat. 2614 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 643. 
S. mollissimum, Bl. Bijdr. 698. S. decemfidum, Nees Trans. Linn. 
Soc. XVII. 43. S. Zollingeri, Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 176. 
Malacca : Griffith ! Singapoee : Wallich (fide Clarke). Distbib. 
Throughout Indo-China and the Malay Archipelago. 
Though so plentiful in the countries both south and north of the Malay Peninsula, 
this seems very rare in our area where S . Blumei appears to replace it. 
6. Solanum FEBOX, Linn. Sp. PI. ed.' II. 267. An erect prickly 
shrub, 3 to 10 feet high, with a short soft-wooded trunk 2 to 3 in. thick ; 
