Solanum. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 567 
renewed from seed, though all the varieties are perennial ; 
but like the Capsicums not so productive after the first L year, 
They continue to blossom and bear fruit the whole year, but 
chiefly during the cold season. In Bengal, in a rich soil, they 
have very few -— but in a poor one many. 
8, S, longed R. i 
Perennial. Leaves irregularly ovate, scolloped.. Fruit 
cylindrical, smooth. Calyx sometimes armed... 3 
Sans. Koolee. 
Beng. Kooli-begoon, 
Neer Wanga is the Telinga name of the plant, and Neer 
Wangkai the fruit. 
Long Brinjal of Europeans. 
I consider this to be a species clearly distinct from olen: 
gena, for the fruit is always cylindrical, never changing by 
culture into any other form. The plant is biennial, and in 
"every respect like /Melongena, the fruit excepted. I have on- 
ly met with it in gardens, where it is cultivated for the table, 
and have had it nine years in mine without producing any 
change in it. The cold season is the proper time for per 
it, 
The silent will exist several years, but are @-either dees up 
or neglected after the first. ; 
Stem short, erect, somewhat woody, Branches numerous, 
spreading, two-forked, downy, sometimes prickly ; the whole 
plant is from two to three feet high. Leaves alternate, pe- 
tioled, oblong, scolloped, or sub-lobate, downy ; from six to 
ten inches long ; sometimes the principal nerve is prickly on 
_ the under side. Fi lowers bowing, large, ofa beautiful, bright 
bluish-purple, they are of two kinds, abortive with a minute 
pistil on a small raceme or umbellet; and a single fertile 
one upon its own proper petiole, which generally stands im- 
mediately. below or close by the peduncle of the racemes, 
Calyx and petioles sometimes prickly, Berry pendulous, 
cylindric, generally a little curved, but never in the least club-_ 
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