on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part II. 269 
all the varieties of the S. esculentum: among these, however, 
we cannot include the Chunda, the fruit of which is not worth 
dressing. 
The elder Burman continued to join the Chunda with the 
S. spinosum fructu rotundo, and applied them to the Elabathu of 
the Ceylonese, which with Hermann he called S. Indicum spino- 
sum, flore Borraginis, fructu croceo rotundo Persice magnitudine, 
Pomum de Hiericho dictum (Thes. Zeyl. 219.). Linnwus having 
procured no specimen of this, left it among the class Barbare 
(FI. Zeyl. 488.), and there it remained, until quoted by M. La- 
marck for his S. undatum (Enc. Meth. iv. 301.). I have found 
this plant in the Gangetic provinces. Except in the size of the 
fruit it has the utmost affinity to the S. Gula, so that I shall 
only note the points in which it differs from the description 
which I have given of that plant. 
Solanum undatum. Enc. Meth. iv. 301. 
Solanum indicum spinosum, flore Borraginis, fructu croceo, ro- 
tundo Persicæ magnitudine, Pomum de Hiericho dictum. 
Thes. Zeyl. 219.. Lin. Fl. Zeyl. 488. 
Solanum spinosum fructu rotundo. Pluk. Alm. 350? 
Chunda s. Schunda. Hort. Mal. ii. 69. t. 37. 
Habitat in Magadhæ ruderis et hortis. . 
Pili in caule et foliorum pagina inferiore stellati, incani. Folia 
minus sinuata, superioribus acutis. Bacca magnitudine 
fere Juglandis, calyce multo major. Pedunculus fructife- 
rus maxime incrassatus. 
Near the villages of Gangetic India I have found a Solanum 
still more nearly related to the Chunda than the Cheru Chunda is, 
and called Kanta Baigun by the Bengalese. It seems to me to be 
the S. zeylanicum (Enc. Meth. iv. 295. Sup. iii. 742.), and at 
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