LX VII. SOLANACE.E 
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and may occasionally appear as escapes : the Tomato, Lycopersieum esculen- 
tum, flowers yellow ; the. Tobacco, Nicotiana Tabacum, flowers white or pink ; 
the Chilly, Capsicum frutescens, flowers white, fruit pungent. 
Flowers distinctly stalked. 
Flowers in clusters, racemes or irregular umbels. 
Anthers coherent, opening by terminal pores 
Anthers free, opening by lateral slits .... 
Flowers solitary, usually axillary. 
Flowers f in. diam. or less. 
Leaves 2 in. Fruiting calyx globose, enclosing the 
berry . 
Leaves 4- 8 in. Fruiting calyx spreading. Berry 
free 
Flowers 1-3 in. diam. 
Flowers blue. Calyx lobed nearly to the base 
Flowers white or purple. Calyx tubular 
Flowers sessile, crowded in a leafy spike. Corolla purple- 
veined .......... 
1 . 
Solanum. 
8 . 
Withania. 
2. 
Physalis. 
5. 
Atropa. 
4. 
Nicandra . 
6. 
Datura. 
7. 
Hyoscyamus. 
'um 
; etymology 
1. SOLANTJM. The classical name of S. 
doubtful. — Chiefly tropical and subtropical regions ; most numer- 
ous in America. 
Shrubs or herbs. Leaves stalked. Flowers in lateral cymes, 
racemes or irregular umbels, sometimes solitary. Calyx small. 
Corolla-tube very short ; limb spreading, 5-lobed, folding at the 
angles. Filaments very short ; anthers oblong, acute, coherent 
in a projecting cone, opening by pores at the top. Ovary 2-celled ; 
style long, stigma small. Berry globose. 
The Potato, S. tuberosum , belongs to this genus ; its cultivation at Simla has 
caused the destruction of much fine forest, notably between Mahasu and Fagoo. 
The Brinjal,.N. Melongena, is also commonly cultivated; it has prickly, lobed, 
woolly leaves and blue flowers 1 in. diam. 
Leaves smooth. 
Flowers white. 
Leaves glabrous or nearly so ... 
1 . 
S. nigrum. 
Leaves stellately tomentose .... 
3. 
8. verbascifolium. 
Flowers purple ....... 
2. 
Leaves prickly. 
Leaves ovate, sinuate ; lower surface tomentose 
4. 
S. indicum. 
Leaves oblong, pinnatifid ; lower surface glabrous 
or nearly so ....... 
5. 
1. Solanum nigrum, Linn . ; FI. Br. Ind. iv. 229. An erect, 
nearly glabrous, branching herb, 12-18 in. Leaves ovate or 
oblong, 1^-4 in., with coarse, angular teeth. Flowers white, 
J-Jin. diam., on slender, drooping stalks forming irregular, umbel- 
like clusters. Calyx-teeth obtuse. Berry \ in. diam., red, yellow 
or black. 
Simla, in woods, common ; June-October. — Throughout India, ascending to 
7000 ft. — Nearly all temperate and tropical regions (Britain, Black Nightshade), 
