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Cheru Chunda, which Linnæus did not at first quote ; although 
in the Species Plantarum, as copied by the younger Burman, he 
afterwards considered it as the same with the plant of Dillenius, 
and removed the Malabathu to the S. mammosum, also an Ame- 
rican plant (F1. Ind. 56.). The Cheru Chunda and Solanum fru- 
tescens (Burm. Thes. Zeyl. 220.) of India now therefore became 
united with the American plant of Dillenius, common in the con- 
servatories of Europe, and was called S. indicum, until Willde- 
now and Lamarck omitted the Cheru Chunda, which, although 
one of the most common and generally diffused plants in India, 
seems for a long time to have been altogether neglected. I 
should, however, have no doubt in calling it Solanum indicum, 
had not Linnæus, when he first defined the species, since called 
S. indicum (Fl. Zeyl. 94.), meant the Malabathu, and not the 
Tubuthu of the Ceylonese, which last is the Cheru Chunda. But 
allowing that Linnæus afterwards considered the Tubuthu ( Burm. 
Thes. Zeyl. t. 102.) to be his S. indicum, as is admitted by La- 
marck and Willdenow, although he may have erroneously quoted 
for the same an American plant of Dillenius, and although this 
. is common in the gardens of Europe, are we to consider the 
American plant as the true S. indicum, and to give other names 
to the Indian plants of Burman, one or other of which Linnæus 
no doubt meant to describe? This indeed is what has been done 
by M. Dunal (Enc. Meth. Sup. iii. 743.), who properly separates 
the American and Indian plants, and gives their synonyma cor- 
rectly; but he calls the American S. indicum, and the Indian 
S. violaceum, an unfortunate name, as the flowers are often white, 
and as already occupied by another plant (Brown Nov. Holl. i. 
445.). In the former name he is supported by the Hortus Kew- 
ensis (i. 402.), which for the S. indicum quotes the plant of Dil- 
lenius alone, continuing however to state, that this grows in both 
Indies: but who ever saw in India this plant of Dillenius? 
There 
