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Anthers dehiscing by pores at tip 
Anthers dehiscing longitudinally. 
Fruit usually long, very pungent; calyx small . 
Fruit globose not pungent; calyx enlarged in fruit . 
Fruit capsular, 4-celled, 4-valved, thorny 
1. Solan um 
2. Capsicum 
3. Physalis 
4. Datura 
1 . SOLANUM, Linn. 
Armed or unarmed herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate or sub¬ 
opposed, entire or lobed. Calyx 5 - or io-lobed, sometimes enlarging 
in fruit. Corolla rotate, short-tubed, blue or white, 5-lobed. 
Stamens adnate to corolla-tube; anthers narrowed upwards with 
terminal pores. Style columnar; stigma small. Fruit a yellow, 
red or black berry. Seed disc-like, numerous. Species 750, 
mostly American, but many in the Old World. 
Unarmed kerbs or shrubs. 
Flowers cymose peduncled. 
Herb nearly glabrous; leaves thin; berry 
small, black . 
Large shrubby plant densely woolly; berry 
yellow ...*•■ 
Flowers fascicled axillary or solitary. 
Epiphytic; calyx sub-entire ; flowers white 
Terrestrial, calyx io-toothed. 
Teeth 5 long* 5 short; flowers blue 
Teeth 10, long; flowers white. 
Leaves and stem sparsely hairy . 
Leaves and stem densely soft hairy 
Armed shrubs or herbs. 
Under 4 ft. tall. 
Tomentose or pubescent; leaves large 
thorny on nerves. 
Fruit spiny haired; calyx-lobes not cover¬ 
ing fruit; flowers white . . . 
Fruit spiny haired; calyx overlapping 
fruit . . • ■ • . • 
Fruit smooth, large, pear-shaped with 
side lobes; flowers blue . 
Fruit smooth, globose, large • 
Sub-glabrous covered all over with long 
spines; fruit globose, scarlet; 
flowers white .... 
Tall shrubs, 4 to 8 ft. tall. 
Flowers in corymbose cymes, white . 
Flowers racemose, blue . 
Slender procumbent or scrambling herbs, very 
thorny. 
Flowers 1 in. across, blue, 5 to 8 in a cyme . 
Flowers *7 in. across, blue, 1 to 2 on a 
peduncle . . . • * 
(1) S. nigrum Linn. Sp. PI. 186; Prain, l.c. 329. 
Herb 1 to 3 ft. tall, glabrous (sparingly pubescent). Leaves 
membranous oblong acuminate or ovate, narrowed both ends, 
entire or more or less lobed, 1-5 to 3 in. long, -2 in. across; petioles 
•2 to 5 in. long. Flowers white, small in 4- to 6-flowered umbels; 
H II 
F 1 .M.P., 3 . n 11 
(1) S. nigrum 
(2) S. verbascifolium 
(3) S. parasiticum 
(4) S. Blumei 
{5) S. decemdentatum 
(6) S. biflorum 
(7) S. ferox 
(8) S. involucratum 
(9) S. mammosum 
(10) S. coagulans 
(11) S. aculeatissimum 
(12) S. torvum 
(13) S. indicum 
(14) S. trilobatum 
(15) S. sarmentosum 
