on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part II. 263 
Ana CnuuNpa, p. 65. fig. 35. 
The name Chunda of the text, in the figures is written Schunda, 
and in this form is usually quoted by authors. By the natives 
of Malabar it is confined to plants ** quæ omnes frutices sunt 
spinosi;" but in Carnata, where the word is pronounced Sunda, 
and in Draveda, where it sounds Shunday, the prototype taken 
for the genus is unarmed. The specific term Ana given to this 
species implies Elephant, an idea that has probably some good 
foundation, as it has extended to Ava, the natives of which call 
this plant Zhen Ka-ram ( Elephantis Solanum). The Vaingani of 
the Malabar Brahmans is no doubt derived from the same 
source with the Baigun of Gangetic India, and the specific name 
Sada implies white. 
Commeline is perfectly right in considering the Chundas as 
Solanums ; but he was certainly mistaken in considering this as 
the same plant with the Juripeba famina of Piso, a plant of Bra- 
zil, which is very likely to be the S. stramonifolium of Willdenow 
(Sp. PI. i. 1044.), a West Indian plant, confounded, no doubt on 
account of great similitude, with the Ana Chunda by M. La- 
marck (Enc. Meth. iv. 300.), and thence supposed to be a na- 
tive of India. 
Plukenet erred probably as much as Commeline in supposing 
this to be the Solanum spinosum maxime tomentosum of Sicily 
(Alm. 351.), while the Juripeba femina he transferred to another 
plant from Madras, which he supper? to be the plant on which 
I shall next comment. 
The elder Burman unites the Ana Chunda with many syno- 
nyma, several of which certainly do not belong to it; and 
among others the Juripeba femina already mentioned, along 
with American plants described by Sloane and Plumier, which 
may indeed be the same with the plant of Piso. The plant to 
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