268 Dr. Francis HauirTON's Commentary 
alter elongatus flores habet duos vel tres masculinos. Ca- 
lyz quinquefidus laciniis ovatis, revolutis, petalo multum 
brevioribus. Corolla rotata, quinquepartita laciniis angus- 
tis subtrinerviis, extra pilosis, inter quas interposita sunt 
membrane totidem, ore recto lacero, lacinias in corollam 
pentagonam conjungentes. Stylus masculinis brevissimus. 
Bacce pendule, magnitudine grossulariæ globosæ, calyce 
omnino fere tectæ. s 
In Cheru Chunda flores fructiferi in eodem pedunculo plures. 
Bacce minores, calyce multo majores. 
Cuunpa, p.69. fig. 37. written Schunda on the plate. 
This, which the natives of Malabar consider as the prototype 
of the genus, and which therefore as usual in India has no spe- 
cific name, is quite different from the species which the neigh- 
bouring people of Carnata view in the same light, and which 
has no prickles. 
Plukenet (A/m. 350.) considered the Schunda as the same 
with the Solanum spinosum fructu rotundo of C. Bauhin, which 
is quoted for the S. insanum by Willdenow (Sp. Pl. i. 1038.) : 
but this author quotes also for his S. insanum the S. pomiferum 
magno fructu ex albo et atro-purpureo nitente, foliis et calyce spi- 
nosis of Plukenet (A/m.300. Phyt. t. 226. f. 3.), that Plukenet 
considered as the S. pomiferum fructu nigro spinosum of C. Bau- 
hin. Which is right, I cannot take upon myself to say ; but no 
great attention can be paid to the synonyma given by Willde- 
now; as for this very plant, which he defines “ caule et calyce 
aculeatis," he quotes the Trongum hortense (Herb. Amb. v. 238. 
t. 85.), which has no prickles at all. It is true, that Plukenet 
considers as the same an African plant called Tongu by the 
people of Angola, Macumba by those of Congo, and Belingela 
by the Portuguese; but these latter in India gave this name to 
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