333 
Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
648 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 234. S. stramonifolium, 
Boxb, Flor. Ind. I. 572. 
Penang : Wallich ! Deschamps ! Ridley ! Malacca : Griffith ! 
Pekak : King's Collector 1085 ! Scortechini 60 ! Singapore : Schom- 
burgk! Hullett ! Kunstler 99! Ridley! Andamans: very common. — 
Distbib. Malayan Archipelago, Indo-China, Philippines, China, India, 
Tropical America. 
This is often exceedingly like the next species, S. indicum, but is easily dis- 
tinguished by its white flowers and its considerably larger fruits. 
8. Solanum indicum, Linn. Sp. PI. 187 partly ; Nees in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. XVII. 55. An erect, armed, branching shrub, 4 to 8 feet 
high ; all young parts thickly covered with a short stellate tomentum, 
with broad, compressed, sharp, slightly recurved prickles. Leaves 
membranous or thinly herbaceous, ovate, sinuately lobed, the lobes 
obtuse or acute, the base obliquely truncate; l - 5 to 3 in. long, 1 to 
2 in. wide ; above minutely tomentose, green ; grey from the denser 
tomentum beneath ; petioles -5 to 1 in. long. Flowers medium, in 
lateral or spuriously terminal racemes about 2‘5 to 3 in. long ; pedicels 
•2 to '3 in. long, sometimes prickly and grey stellate-pubescent, 
as are the peduncles. Calyx grey stellate-pubescent, 5-toothed, 
•25 in. long, prickly or not ; the teeth lanceolate-acute, hardly 
enlarging in fruit. Corolla blue, externally stellate -pubescent, 
•5 in across, rotate, 5-lobed, the lobes ’35 in. long. Ovary glabrous. 
Fruit yellow or orange, small, supported by the hai’dly altered calyx, 
globose, - 25 in. in diam. Seeds T5 in. in diam., minutely dotted. 
Lour. Flor. Cochin-Chin. 131 ; Roxb. Flor. Ind. I. 570 ; Wall. Cat. 
2626; Wight, Ic. t. 346; Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 309; Miq. Flor 
Ind. Bat. II. 651; Kurz For. FI. Burm. II. 226; Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. 
Brit. Ind. IV. 234. S. violaceum, Jacq. Fragm. 82, t. 133, f. 1 (not of 
R. Br.). S. cuneatum, Moench Meth. n. 476 ; Poir. Suppl. III. 743. S. 
canescens, Bl. Bijdr. 701. S. Junghuhnii, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 649. 
Penang : Wallich ! Selangor : King’s Collector 363 ! Perak : 
Wray 3077 ! Andamans : Prain ! — Distrib. Throughout S.E. Asia. 
This species often is very like S. torvum; it is readily distinguished by its usually, 
though not invariably, more numerous prickles, by its blue flowers, and its smaller 
fruits. 
9. Solanum Melongena, Linn. Sp. PI. 186. A stout erect, sparingly 
armed herb, 2 to 8 feet high ; all the younger parts covered with a grey 
soft tomentum. Leaves membranous, ovate or oblong, irregularly 
sinuately lobed ; 3 to 6 in. long, 2 to 4 in. wide ; green above, stellately 
pubescent beneath with a few prickles on the nerves or sometimes 
