566 PENTANPDRIA MONOGYNIA, Solanum, 
A native of China; from thence introduced into the Bota-— 
nic garden at Calcutta, where it blossoms and ripens its ber- 
ries most part of the year. 
It has the habit of a robust, pubescent variety of Soe 
= um. 
Stems annual, nearly erect, with alternate, flexuose, pubes- 
cent, round branches and branchlets ; general height two or 
three feet, Leaves in pairs or single, and accompanied with 
a branchlet, petioled, ovate-oblong, somewhat acute, villous, 
Peduncies axillary, from two to six together, one-flowered, 
drooping when in blossoms. Calyx ten-toothed, pole. 
Berries = size of a pea, smooth, bright red, when ri pe. : 
6. S. ;. spirale R. 
Shrubby, void of siobenbeneks Leaves paired, lanceolar, 
entire. aczmes lateral, the unexpanded part = re- 
volute. Segments of the calyx glandalar, 
Bugua is the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is indi- 
genous, and in flower and fruit at various times of the year. 
Though rather foetid it is an ornamental species on account 
of its smooth, deep green leaves; spiral racemes of pretty 
white flowers ; and numerous small, round yellow berries. 
SECT. II. Armed. 
7, S. Melongena, Willd. sp. i. 1036, 
Perennial. Leaves obliquely-ovate, vee Hi scallbbsicte: i 
Fertile flowers solitary, long pedancled, drooping ; the ae 
ren ones on small racemes, Fruit oval, smooth. : 
Beng. Begoon. 
Hind, Bangan. 
_Teling. Wangkai. 
Nila-Barudena, Rheed. Mal. x. 147, t. 74. 
hortense. Rumph. Amb. v, 238, t, 85. Za 
OF this very universally useful, exculent species, there are 
"varie Sheet etme) ea, 
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