on the Hoi'tus Malabaricus, Part II. 263 



Ana Chunda, p. 65. Jig. 35. 



The name Chunda of the text, in the figures is written Schunda, 

 and in this form is usually quoted by authors. By the natives 

 of Malabar it is confined to plants " quae omnes frutices sunt 

 spinosi ;" but in Carnata, where the word is pronounced Sunda, 

 and in Draveda, where it sounds Shunday, the prototype taken 

 for the genus is unarmed. The specific term Ana given to this 

 species implies Elephant, an idea that has probably some good 

 foundation, as it has extended to Ava, the natives of which call 

 this plant Zhan Ka-ram (Elephantis Solunum). The Vaingani of 

 the Malabar Brahmans is no doubt derived from the same 

 source with the Baigun of Gangetic India, and the specific name 

 Sada implies white. 



Commeline is perfectly right in considering the Chundas as 

 Solanums ; but he was certainly mistaken in considering this as 

 the same plant with the Juripeba foemina of Piso, a plant of Bra- 

 zil, which is very likely to be the S. stramonifolium of Willdenow 

 {Sp. PI. i. 1044.), a West Indian plant, confounded, no doubt on 

 account of great similitude, with the Ana Chunda by M. La- 

 marck {Enc. Meth. iv. 300.), and thence supposed to be a na- 

 tive of India. 



Plukenet erred probably as much as Commeline in supposing 

 this to be the Solanum spinosum niaxime tomentosum of Sicily 

 (Aim. 351.), while the Juripeba foemina he transferred to another 

 plant from Madras, which he supposed to be the plant on which 

 I shall next comment. 



The elder Burman unites the Ana Chunda with many syno- 

 nyma, several of which certainly do not belong to it; and 

 among others the Juripeba foemina already mentioned, along 

 with American plants described by Sloane and Plumier, which 

 may indeed be the same with the plant of Piso. The plant to 



which 



