Solan-urn.} xcix. solanace.e. 4 6 7 
i in. long. Flowers in axillary fascicles of 2 to 6; pedicels to 
*25 in. long, rough hairy. Calyx cup-shaped with linear teeth, 
•12 in. long, sparsely hairy, shorter than corolla. Fruit globose 
much longer than sepals. Hab. Open country. Rare and dubious 
as native except in the north. Singapore (Wallich). Malacca 
(Griffith), locality doubtful, as the same number in his collection is 
given for Mergui. Jalor, Biserat (Annandale). 
(6) S, biflorum Lour. FI. Cochinchine, 129. S. mollissimum 
Bl. Bijdr. 698. 
Slender twiggy unarmed shrub softly hairy all over. Leaves 
thin, membranous elliptic-lanceolate acuminate long, decurrent 
on the petiole; nerves 4 pairs very faint; 2*25 in. long, 1 in. wide; 
petioles -5 in. long. Flowers solitary, axillary; pedicel *25 in. 
long, all softly hairy except corolla. Calyx cup-shaped with 5 
linear teeth as long as the corolla, -15 in. long. Corolla-lobes 
lanceolate. Fruit globose shorter than calyx, glabrous. Hab. 
Pahang, Gunong Senyum (Evans). Distrib. Java, Cochinchina and 
China. 
(7) S. ferox Linn. Sfi. PL ed. ii. 267; Prain, l.c. 331. 
A prickly tomentose plant about 2 ft. tall. Leaves sub¬ 
opposite, membranous, ovate with short triangular lobes tomentose 
all over, paler on backs; nerves thorny; 5 to 9 in. long, 3 to 6 in. 
wide; petioles 1 to 2-5 in. long. Flowers in short-peduncled 
racemes few below leaves. Calyx funnel-shaped, dense hairy, 
lobes ovate acute. Corolla white tomentose outside nearly 1 in. 
across. Fruit globose, 1 in. through, yellow hairy with bristly 
hairs. Hab. Waste ground, said by Malays to have been brought 
from Java. Pahang River, Negri Sembilan, Bukit Tangga Pass. 
Perak, Gunong Mesak and Sungei Rayah (Kunstler). Penang 
(Wallich, Curtis). Tringganu, Bundi (Rostados). Distrib. India, 
China, Sumatra, Java, 
(8) S. involueratum Bl. Bijdr. 701. 
Much resembling S', ferox , but less tomentose. Leaves ovate, 
sinuate-lobed thinly pubescent, 4 to 6 in. long, 4 in. wide, thorny 
on nerves both sides; petioles thorny, 1 to 2 in. long. Flowers 
1 to 3 together, axillary. Calyx-lobes large, ovate-lanceolate, 
thorny, velvety, 1 in. long. Corolla blue? Fruit globose bristly, 
enclosed in the large calyx-lobes. Hab. Open places in the northern 
parts. Perak, Temengoh; Grit (Ridley). Perlis, Kanga (Ridley). 
Distrib. Java. 
(9) S. mammosum Linn. Sp. PI. 187. 
A branching shrub about 3 ft. tall and as wide or more, more 
or less pubescent and spiny. Leaves ovate, acutely lobed, pubes¬ 
cent or velvety, spiny on nerves, 3 to 5 in. long and about as wide ; 
petioles 1*5 in. long, thorny. Flowers 2 or 3 in a raceme, densely 
hairy, about 1 in. long. Calyx-lobes lanceolate acute, hairy. 
Corolla blue about -5 in. across. Fruit obpyriform blunt, 3 in. 
