568 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNTA, Solanum. 
bed, smooth, yellow ; from nine to eighteen inches long, and 
from one and a half to two and a half in diameter, it is gener- 
pe three-celled. 
9. s. insanum. . Willd. sp. i, 1037. a5) 
Perennial, (in a poor soil) armed. Leaves ovate, sinuate, 
downy. Peduneles from one to four-flowered. -Calyx often 
armed. . Fruit from oval to spherical, polished, 
A native of Amboyna, yet I doubt whether Ramphius’s 
Trongum hortensi can be any other than the real Indian me- 
longena. From the same Island, the seeds of a variety of the 
above (insanum), were brought to the Botanic garden at 
Calcutta. Their plants are more spinous, and the {ruit- per= 
fectly round, white, and smooth, almost the size of a small 
Crab-apple, This I take to be Rumphius’s Trongum agreste, 
vol. v. p. 240. t. 86.,f. 1. and so far as my observation ex~ 
tends, it is not cultivated on the continent of India. 
10. S. ethiopicum. Willd. sp. i. 1036. 
Annual, scarcely armed. Leaves oval, repand, downy. 
Peduncles one-flowered. Berries red, smooth, depressed, 
five-lobed, : 
From the Mauritius, where it is said to be imdiboneiil it 
has been introduced into the Botanic garden at) Calcutta, 
where it grows to the height of about two feet, with many 
spreading branches, clothed with short stellate pubescence, 
and here and_ a ca iMenteriapitny: 
and appear at all season. wn pavide. ve 
11. S. diffusum. R, 
_ Diffuse, perennial, prickly. Leaves oval, deeply neal 
‘ky downy and prickly on both sides. Peduncles passe 
a Berries round, es 
» Solanum incanum chinense. Pluck, Alm: 62. Ss 1. 
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