Solanum. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 565 
mon leaves than stipules, Cymes in the forks of the branchlets 
long-peduncled, dichotomous, Ramifications recurvate, sub- 
secund, lowers numerous, sub-sessile, small, lively blue- 
purple, Berry spherical, size of a small cherry, when ripe of 
a dull yellow. 
Obs. Independently of the colour of the flowers, the stipul 
or axillary leaves render this species readily known; in all 
other respects it almost exactly resembles the preceding ; in 
that plant there are no stipulz, and the flowers are white, 
3. S. Lycopersicum. Willd, sp, i. 1033. 
Annual. Leaves pinnate, gashed. Racemes bipartite, leaf- 
less. #ruit smooth, vertically compressed, torulose, 
Pomum amoris. Rumph, Amb. v. t. 154. f..1. ! 
Although this is now very common in India, I suspect it is 
as little a native as the common potatoe, which is now very 
generally cultivated over India, even doy the natives for their 
own use, 
A, S. rubrum, Willd, sp. i. 1034. 
Annual, erect, unarmed. - Branches Bakowkes angular, 
Leaves ovate, dentate, lobate. Umbels short-peduncled, 
Flowers and berries drooping. 
Beng. Goorkhi, 
Nelen tsjunda. Rheed. Mal, x, t. 73. 
~ A common weed in gardens all over India, with flowers and 
tipe seed the whole year round. 
Seeds. received fromthe Mauritius under des name of So- 
fanum nodiflorum, (Willd. sp. i, 1035,) produced | this: very 
plant. On that Island it is 5 called Brede, and very g gener 
cultivated asa pot herb. ~ a stp iad 
Bee eae, erect, ramous, hairy. Leaves in pairs or solitary 
it a branchilet, ovate, Peduncles axillary, from two to six 
together, one-flowered, Calyx ten-toothed. 
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