332 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
all the younger parts thickly covered with a brownish soft tomentum 
intermixed with many sharp compressed brownish prickles of unequal 
size. Leaves usually sub-opposite, membranous, ovate to nearly 
orbicular with irregular short triangular acute or blunt lobes ; 5 to 9 in. 
long, 3 to 6 in. wide, the lobes often 1 in. deep ; green above, brownish 
from the tawny tomentum beneath, sparingly beset on midrib and 
nerves with long compressed prickles ; petioles -5 to 2’5 in. long, 
prickly. Flowers large, on thickish pedicels clustered in few-flowered 
sub- umbellate short-peduncled racemes set close below the leaves; 
peduncles and pedicels densely stellate-tomentose and beset with long 
acicular hairs. Calyx shortly funnel-shaped, densely hirsute, some- 
times prickly ; lobes ovate-acute, -25 in. long. Corolla white, densely 
tomentose externally, nearly 1 in. across ; lobes oblong-acute. Ovary 
hairy. Fruit yellow, globose, 1 in. in diam., hispid with acicular hairs, 
much exceeding the hardly altered calyx. Seeds -12 in. in diam., very 
slightly scrobieulate. Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 255; Kurz For. PI. 
Bunn. II. 226 ( excl . var. /I) ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 646 ; Clarke in 
Ilook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 233. S. lasiocarpum, Bl. Bijdr. 701; Wall. 
Cat. 2623; Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 252. S. hirsutum, Boxb. Hort. 
Beng. 17, and FI. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 253. S. stramom folium, 
Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 252 (not of Jacq., nor of Wall., nor o/Boxb.). 
Penang : Wallioh ! Perak : Sungah Byah, Kunstlcr 1022 ! Gunong 
Mesah, King s Collector 1026 ! Singapore : Wallich! Andamans : Port 
Blair, plentiful. Nicobars : Naneowry, King’s Collector ! — Distrib. 
India, Indo-China, S. China, Sumatra, Java. 
7. Solanum torvum, Sw. Prod. Veg. Ind. Occ. 47. An erect 
sparingly armed shrubby perennial, 3 to 6, or at times even 8 to 12 feet 
high , all parts shortly and sparsely stellate-pubescent, with but few 
compressed sharp scattered prickles. Leaves usually sub-opposite, 
membranous, ovate, shortly acuminate, sinuate or lobed, the lobes 
obtuse or acute, the base truncate very unequal ; 2 to 4 in. long, P5 to 
3 m. across ; rather sparingly pubescent above, more closely sometimes 
scuifily pubescent beneath; petioles '5 to 1 in. long. Floivers medium, 
in lateral usually extra-axillary corymbose cymes with short pubescent 
peduncles; pedicels slender, -3 to -4 in. long, pubescent. Calyx 
sparsely pubescent, 5-toothed, -25 in. long, without prickles, the teeth 
ovate-lanceolate acute, -1 in. long, not enlarging in fruit. Corolla 
white, externally stellate-pubescent, -5 in. across, rotate, 5-lobed, the 
lobes -3 in. long, lanceolate-acuminate. Ovary glabrous. Fruit yellow, 
supported by the calyx which becomes glabrous in fruit, globular, -4 in. 
across. Seeds -2 in. in diam., compressed, minutely granular. Dun. 
m DC. Prod. XIII. 260 ; Wight Ic. t. 345 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 
