572 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Solanum, 
Is a scarce plant, grows in the country about Calcutta, 
and is found in flower and fruit in August. 
Root perennial. Stem scarcely any, but many sub-ligne- 
ous branches covered with much down, and armed with in- 
numerable, small, erect spines, Leaves double, as in several 
of the Physali ; petioled, one of the pair always much larger 
than the other, but it is from the axills of the smallest that the 
branchlets issue; they are obcordate, irregularly angle-lob- 
ed ; the upper surface is thickly covered with much ereet, 
soft: hair, on the under side it is more distinctly stellate, and 
whitish ; nerve and larger veins armed on both sides with 
strong straight prickles, the largest from six to nine inches | 
long, and from four to'six broad, the smaller about half the 
size. Petioles rowid, hairy, prickly; those of the large 
leaves half their length, and. coloured. on the upper side ; 
those of the smaller ones about one-fourth part of their 
length. Umbel generally opposite, and below the leaves; sim- 
ple, few-flowered. Peduncles and pedicels short and hairy, 
but not prickly, Flowers white, pretty large. Calyx hairy, 
otherwise unarmed, Corol very hairy on the outside, An- 
thers sessile, conical. Germ hairy, Berries the size of a 
pes aca ae nae, hairy, fonrcpalhed, as in. ccaeumiane oe 
16.8. aavswupnifo Tae luted i: BLD a: 
~ Shrubby, erect, | Branches, petioles ae Sinan snasiaale 
beset! with. strong; flattened: prickles, Leaves alternate ot 
ninate, ovate, unequally cordate, deeply sinuate-lobate, 
with stellate pubescence on’ both sides.. Corymbs lateral, 
bitid, unarmed, with glandular, slightly viscous pubescence. 
Corolla flat, with undulate lacinie. Berry round, eager; 
on thickened, clavate peduneles, ies ae 
. Beng, Gota begoon. hantG 
This. is an exceedingly common. plant in aor wheal 
em near she, babitionnes ie Migs ventas i 
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