XCIX. SOLANACE-iE. 
Solatium.] 
469 
above, grey tomentose beneath, 1*5 to 3 in. long, 1 to 2 in. wide; 
petioles 1 in. long. Flowers in lateral racemes, 3 in. long or less, 
tomentose and prickly. Calyx -25 in. long; teeth lanceolate acute. 
Corolla purple, -5 in. across. Fruit orange, -25 in. through. Hab. 
Waste ground. Not common, Pulau Aor (Feilding). Malacca 
(Griffith). Selangor (Kunstler). Kelantan, Kwala Lebir (Gim- 
lette). Distrib. South-East Asia. 
(14) S. trilobatum Linn. Burm. FI. Ind. 57, t. 22. 
A nearly glabrous sarmentose thorny plant. Leaves ovate 
or elliptic, irregularly sinuate-lobed, base broad often emarginate, 
Fig, 118.—Solatium torvum. 
3 in. long, 1*5 in. wide; petioles *5 in. long, thorny. Cymes 
lateral, 5- to 8-flowered; peduncles -5 in. long; pedicels umbelled, 
•5 in. long. Calyx-lobes *2 in. long, hardly enlarged in fruit. 
Corolla 1 to 1*5 in. across, blue. Fruit *25 in. through. Hab. 
Native gardens and waste ground. Malacca (Griffith, Cuming). 
Penang (Curtis). Disirib. India, China, Siam. Use : Root used 
in medicine. .. 
(15) S. sarmentosum Nees, Trans. Linn. Soc. xvn. 50; Train , 
lx. 334. S. Maingayi Kurz, Rev. Gen. 453. 
Straggling, prickly shrub, procumbent, sparsely hairy; 
branches and nerves of leaves prickly. Leaves membranous, 
