It is native of India, and cultivated throughout the country. The juice of plants is given in chronic enlargements of the liver, in bleeding piles, dysentery, etc. Solanum torvum; Verna-Titbaigun-The fruits are used as vegetable. It is native of the West Indies and tropical America, now cultivated throughout our country.21. Hutchinson has also shown the close systematic relationship of the Geraniales with the Convolvulaceae.Simple, cauline and ramal, alternate, short petioled, exstipulate, entire, acute, unicostate reticulate venation.14. Solanaceae family is also known as the potato family. 14 genera and 52 species of this family are present in Pakistan. These plants are grouped into different families depending upon their characteristics.The Fabaceae family include leguminous plants that are important both ecologically and economically. This order comprises of three families, i.e, Solanaceae, Convolvulaceae, and Nolanaceae, of which first two (i.e., Solanaceae and Convolvulaceae) have been described here in detail.The stamens are 5, rarely 4 or 6, inserted on the corolla throat, filaments short, anthers oblong, often narrowed upwards, connivent round the style, dehiscence by apical pores or short slits, introrse.The ovary is superior bi-celled and many ovuled (rarely 3-4 celled), style simple, linear, stigma small and terminal.Rendle separated the Convolvulaceae into a distinct order the Convolvulales, which he also separated from the Tubiflorae. The leaves and seeds are narcotic and sometimes used for criminal poisoning.
These plants are distributed in temperate and tropical areas. The fruits are given in colics. The fruits are given in fevers; diarrhoea, eye diseases and hydrophobia. Physalis peruviana; Syn. He has placed the families Solanaceae, Convolvulaceae and Nolanaceae in the order Solanales.Tubular-campanulate and 5-lobed.Alternate, simple, entire or rarely sinuate, shortly petiolate or sessile, decurrent.Bentham and Hooker and Bessey included the family Solanaceae among the Polemoniales. Its important characteristics are mentioned below. It has variegated leaves.2 carpels (bicarpellary), syncarpous, ovary superior, bilocular (sometimes becomes tetralocular due to false septation), rarely 3-5 celled ovary, placentation axile, ovules usually many on prominently peltate placentas, anatropous or somewhat amphitropous. It is native of Peru, but now cultivated in Bengal Assam, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Travancore.5 stamens, polyandrous, epipetalous, alternate to the petals, filaments long, anthers bicelled, introrse.Cymose, extra-axillary sub-umbellate cyme.Pedicellate, short pedicels, bracteate, hermaphrodite, actinomorpic, white, fragrant, complete, hypogynous, pentamerous and cyclic.Erect, branched, herbaceous, solid, cylindrical, green and hairy.12.
The leaves are used in toothache, cough and fevers.5 sepals, gamosepalous, green, valvate aestivation, inferior.Alternate or becoming opposite at or near the inflorescences, rarely whorled, exstipulate, entire, simple, rarely dissected or pinnate.The tobacco dust is used for making khamira tobacco for smoking and manufacture of nicotine sulphate, an insecticide.
Solanaceae, or nightshades, are an economically important family of flowering plants with a worldwide distribution. Cestrum parqui; Eng.-Willow-leaved jessamine; Verna.-Rat-ki-Rani-This is grown as an ornamental.