on the Hortus Malabaricus, Tart II. 265 



bably some German translation) ; but the plant for which this is 

 quoted is totally ditFerent from that of Rheede. 



Commeline considers the Cheru Chunda as the same with the 

 Jurepeba mas of Piso, a Brazilian plant, which Willdenow I 

 believe calls Solanum paniculatum ; but he only quotes the Jurt- 

 peba^ without stating whether he meant the mas or fcemina. Com- 

 meline's conjecture, however, concerning both Jurepebas seems 

 equally ill-founded. 



Contrary to Commeline, but equally wrong, Plukenet trans- 

 ferred the plant, which he took to be the Scheru Schunda, from 

 the Jurepeba mas to the Jurepeba fxmina, as formerly mentioned. 

 He quotes indeed the Scheru Schunda with doubt {Aim. 351.), 

 and I think that the figure which he gives of his plant {Phyt. 

 t. 316. f. 4.) represents the S. Jacquini, although Willdenow 

 quoted it erroneously for his S. sodomaum {Sp. PL i. 1043.), as 

 M. Poiret justly observes (Enc. Meth. Sup. iii. 742.). 

 .•The elder Burman considered the Cheru Chunda as the same 

 with his S. frutescens, villosum, foliis uudulatis, mollibus, subtus 

 incanis, spinis flavescentibus armatum (Thes. Zeyl. 220. t. 102.), 

 in which he seems right; but very little dependence can be 

 placed on his synonyma, some of which probably belong to the 

 S. Jacquini.. He says that its Ceylonese name is Tubuthu, of 

 which Linnaeus takes no notice. 



The younger Burman united the Cheru Chunda and his father's 

 Solanum last mentioned with an American plant of Dillenius, 

 which Linnaeus at first {Fl. Zeyl. 94.) took to be the same with 

 the Malabathu of the Ceylonese, mentioned by the elder Bur- 

 man {Thes. Zeyl. 218.) as quite different from the Tubuthu or 

 Cheru Chunda, and called by him Solanum indicum, spinosum, 

 frutescens, maximum, villosum totum fructibus croceis. Linnaeus 

 indeed admits, that the plant of Dillenius differs a little from the 

 Malabathu of Burman ; and it is equally different from the 



Cheru 



