570 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Solanum. 
sides near villages, It is in blossom, and produces ripe fruit. 
most part of the year. 
Root at least biennial. Stem none, but several, flexuose, 
ramous branches, spreading close on the ground, for an ex- 
tent of some feet, often striking root at the insertion of the 
leaves ; angular, nearly void of pubescence. Leaves frequent- 
ly in pairs, oblong, pinnatifid, or laciniate, smooth, but arm- 
ed on both sides with long, strong, straight spines. Racemes 
between the leaves, and almost as long, bearing four, five, 
or six alternate, pedicelled, large, bright blue flowers, Calyx 
armed with straight spines. Berries spherical, size of a large 
gooseberry, very smooth, drooping, while immature variegat- 
ed with green and er: when ripe with different shades of _ 
yellow only, . 
13. S. indicum. Willd. sp. i. 1042, 
Shrabby, armed, very ramous, Leaves ovate, lobate, Jews 
ny, armed on both sides. Racemes leaf-opposed. Calyx arm-. 
ed. Berries erect, round, smooth. . 
Beng. Vyakool, Vyakovor, Goorkamai, 
Cheru-chunda. Rheed, Mal. ii. t. 36, } 
_ Solanum fructescens, &e. Burm. Zeyl. p. 220. t. 102, isa 
pretty good representation of this plant, but I think Dille- 
nius’s S. indicum spinosum flore boragineo, t. 270. f. 349. 
must have been taken from a very different species, the flow-_ 
ers being much too large, and the leaves too ory atieatée 
for our East Indian plant. — — : 
Trunk trifling, but the branchds are Sauecrons; lean, 
and perennial, forming a large, very ramous shrub of several 
feet in height, armed with numerous very acute, somewhat 
recurved spines; the young parts are downy. Leaves solita- 
ry, or in pairs, petioled, ovate lobate, downy, and armed with 
a few straight spines on both sides, from two to four inches 
long. Racemes between or opposite to the leaves, support- 
ing several long-pedicélled, middle-sized, pale blue flowers. 
Calyx deeply five-cleft, armed. Berries erect, round, manna, 
