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Solanum. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 563 
| Predulis, Sims’ Bot. Mag. 1068. 1 concur with the Mathor, 
in referring P. pubescens to the same species, 
Beng. Tepuriya, oe 
I have only found this in a cultivated state and that on ac- 
count of its large, yellowish, palatable berries ; although na- 
turally perennial yet the plants are reared annually from seed, 
_as they are not fruitful after the first year, The same is the 
case with the Capsicums and the many varieties of Solanum 
-Melongena, 
A. P. minima, Willd. spec. i. 1024. 
Annual, ramous, downy. Leaves double or single, and 
then with a brancblet, ovate, irregularly dentate. Flowers 
solitary, erect. Stigmas entire, Fruit pendulous, 
Inota-Inodien. Rheed, Mal. x, ceu Moetoe, _ te 70 
_ Beng. Bun Tepuriya. 
Hind, Toolat?-pati. 
_ A small ramous annual, common on cultivated ground, 
both in Bengal and on the coast of Coromandel. 
Stem short, but distinct ; branches many, two-forked, striat- 
ed, a little downy. Leaves double, except at the divisions 
of the branchlets, where they are single, the smaller branch- 
Jets occupying the place of the other; unequal, petioled, 
cordate, irregularly toothed, downy. on both sides ; from two 
to four inches long. Peduneles solitary, axillary, erect, one- 
flowered, Flowers small, campanulate, uniform, pale yellow, 
and smooth, filaments a little hairy, yellow. 
© SOLANUM. Schreb. gen. N.337- 
Cal yx five-parted. Corol rotate. Anthers ot ey 
gaping at the ar with a quail pore. Berry superior, two- 
lays 
