LXXXY1. SOLAN ACE.E. 
1077 
Tribe V. Salpigrlossideae. Corolla 5-lobed, the lobes more or less induplicate or folded 
in the bud and sometimes also slightly imbricate, the 2 upper ones (those next to the main axis of 
inflorescence ) outside. Embryo often slightly curved. Inflorescence centrifugal. 
Corolla funnel shaped or rarely salver-shaped. Stamens attached in the 
middle or lower down the tube. Stigma dilated. Capsule 2 celled, 
2-valved. 
Seeds numerous ; testa foveolate-rugose 9.*Petonia. 
Fruit a berry. Anthers 1-celled 10. Duboisia. 
1. LYCOPERSICUM, Mill. 
(From the Greek ; wolf-peach.) 
Sepals 5 to 6, narrow, unaltered in fruit. Corolla rotate, tube very short ; 
limb 5 to G-fid, plaited in bud. Stamens 5 to 6, on the corolla-tube. Anthers 
connivent in an elongated cone, dehiscing by slits. Ovary 2 to 8-celled. Style 
cylindrical; stigma small, capitate. Seeds many, compressed, papillose; 
embryo peripheric. — Tail pubescent herbs. Leaves pinnate, pinnte toothed or 
lyrate. Cymes pedunculate, few-flowered. 
American plants. 
1. 1.. esculentum (a food plant), Mill.; DC. Prod. xiii. 26. The Tomato 
or Love Apple. Flowers yellow, about iin. in diameter. Berry about lin. 
diameter or more, the one most generally met with on scrub land, globose and 
red. — L. cerasiforme, Dunal, Sol. 113; Clarke in Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. iv. 237 ; 
Solanum Lycopersicum, Linn. 
Hab.: South America. 
The fungus-blight ( Macrosporium Tomato, Cooke) which at times infests the Tomato in 
cultivation I have never noticed on the naturalised plants. 
2. SOLANUM, Linn. 
(Name of doubtful meaning.) 
Calyx with 5, rarely with 1 or more than 5 teeth or lobes. Corolla rotate or 
very broadly campanulate, with 5 or rarely 4 angles or lobes, folded in the bud. 
Filaments usually very short, rarely as long as the anthers ; anthers oblong or 
linear, erect and connivent, either parallel or more frequently tapering upwards 
and forming a cone round the style, opening at the top in pores or transverse 
slits, rarely continued down the sides of the anthers, without any prominent 
•connectivum between the cells. Fruit a berry, usually 2-celled rarely 4-celled 
{the cells divided by a spurious dissepiment) or in species or varieties not 
Australian several-celled. Seeds several, flattened, with a curved or spiral 
•embryo surrounding a fleshy albumen. — Herbs shrubs or rarely low soft-wooded 
trees, either unarmed or with prickles scattered on the branches, on the principal 
veins of the leaves, especially on the upper surface and in some species also on 
the inflorescence and calyxes, straight and slender in most Australian species, 
stout -and recurved in some others. Leaves alternate, but often in pairs, a 
smaller one being developed in the axil of the larger one, entire or irregularly 
toothed lobed or divided. Flowers normally in terminal centrifugal cymes ; 
but, owing to the rapid development of the branch, the inflorescenee becomes 
usually lateral and very often, by the abortion of one branch, reduced to a simple 
unilateral apparently centripetal raceme or to a single flower. Corolla usually 
blue purplish or white or in species not Australian yellow, always tomentose 
outside in the species where the tomentum is stellate, but usually only on the 
part exposed in the bud, with the induplicate margins glabrous. Style frequently 
curved to one side, the stigma slightly dilated, entire or 2-lobed. 
A very large genus, spread over the warmer and temperate regions of the globe, but most 
abundant in tropical America. 
The distinction and determination of the numerous species of this genus (most extravagantly 
multiplied by Dunal in the ‘ Prodromus’) is attended with peculiar difficulties, the chief characters 
being derived from the very variable ones of foliage, armature and indumentum. The sections 
