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quite unarmed ; petiole 1 in. long. Flowers large, on extra-axillary 
often paired peduncles, one peduncle with a solitary perfect flower the 
other with a few-flowered raceme of male flowers ; peduncles stellate- 
tomentose, very rarely prickly. Calyx shortly funnel-shaped, densely 
pubescent; lobes oblong-acute ; -25 to -35 in. long, enlarging slightly in 
fruit, usually armed. Corolla blue, externally pubescent, 1 to 1-25 in. 
across, o-lobed, lobes oblong-acute, short. Ovary glabrous ; style 
stellate-pubescent or at times glabrous. Fruit large, ovoid, obovoid, 
ellipsoid, or cylindric ; usually dark purple, often with white spots or 
streaks, sometimes uniformly white or yellowish, always glabrous, 
sometimes as much as 6 in. long and always much longer than the 
calyx. Seeds -12 in. in diam., slightly scrobiculate. Lour. Flor. Cochin- 
Chin. 130 ; Eoxb. Flor. Ind. I. 566 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 653 ; Clarke 
in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 235. S. insanum, Boxb. Flor. Ind. I. 568. 
S. undatum, Lamk Encyc. IV. 301 ; Bl. Bijdr. 700. S. longum, Boxb. 
Hort. Beng. 16, and Flor. Ind. I. 567. S. pseudo-undatum, Bl. Bijdr. 
699. S. ovigerum, Bl. Bijdr. 698. S. Trongum, Lamk Encyc. IV. 308. 
S. ferox var. Trongum, Ivurz For. Flor. Burm. II. 226. 
In all the provinces, cultivated ; occasionally also as an escape from 
cultivation or sub-feral ( e.g ., at Trang, King's Collector 1416!) 
The Egg-Plant, or Brinjal, largely cultivated in all warm countries ; originally 
American. As an escape this species tends to become more prickly and to have 3 to 4 
fruits on the peduncle, owing to the males being replaced by perfect flowers. In such 
cases the fruits are much smaller and often approach, or sometimes even attain a 
globose form. 
10. Solanum sarmentosum, Nees Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 58. A 
straggling prickly shrub with procumbent zigzag branches, 2 to 3 feet 
long; all parts sparsely hairy and covered with long, straight, sharp 
prickles. Leaves membranous, broadly elliptic, sub-pinnatifid, lobes 
obtuse, sub-glabrescent above, sparsely stellately pubescent and prickly 
beneath ; 4 in. long, 2 in. across, the lobes -75 in. deep ; green on both 
sui faces; petioles -6 in. long. Flowers large, with thickish pedicels 
on 1-2-flowered, extra-axillary peduncles about 1 in. long, sparsely 
stellate-pubescent. Calyx with very shortly funnel-shaped tube, lobes 
ovate-acuminate -2 in. long, sparsely hairy and prickly, much enlarged 
m fruit. Corolla blue, externally pubescent, -7 in. across; lobes 
oblong-acute. Ovary glabrous. Fruit yellow, globose, glabrous, -5 in. 
across, overtopped by the enlarged caudate-acuminate, adpressed, 
armed calyx-lobes, -75 in. long and -35 in. wide. Seeds -12 in. in 
diam., scrobiculate. Dun. in DC. Prod. XIII. 357 ; Clarke in Hook. f. 
Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 236. S. Mclongena, Wall. Cat. 2628 (F. only— wot 
of Linn.). S. Jacquini, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 651 ( not of Willd.). 
