268 Dr. Francis Hamilton's Commentary 



alter elongatus flores habet duos vel tres masculinos. Ca- 

 lyx quinquefidus laciniis ovatis, revolutis, petalo multum 

 brevioribus. Corolla rotata, quinquepartita laciniis angus- 

 tis subtrinerviis, extra pilosis, inter quas interpositee sunt 

 membranse totidem", ore recto lacero, lacinias in corollam 

 pentagonam conjungentes. Stylus masculinis brevissimus. 

 BacccB pendulae, magnitudine grossularise globosne, calyce 

 omnino fere tectae. 

 In Cheru Chunda flores fructiferi in eodem pedunculo plures. 

 Baccce minores, calyce multo majores. 



Chunda, p. 69. fig. 37- written Schunda on the plate. 



This, which the natives of Malabar consider as the prototype 

 of the genus, and which therefore as usual in India has no spe- 

 cific name, is quite different from the species which the neigh- 

 bouring people of Carnata view in the same light, and which 

 has no prickles. 



Plukenet {Aim. 350.) considered the Schunda as the same 

 with the Solanum spinosum fructu rotunda of C. Bauhin, which 

 is quoted for the S. insanum by Willdenow {Sp. PL i. 1038.) ; 

 but this author quotes also for his S. insanum the S. pomiferum 

 magno fructu ex albo et atro-purpureo nitente, foliis et calyce spi- 

 nosis of Plukenet (Aim. 300. Phyt. t. 226. f. 3.), that Plukenet 

 considered as the S. pomiferum fructu nigro spinosum of C. Bau- 

 hin. Which is right, I cannot take upon myself to say ; but no 

 great attention can be paid to the synonyma given by Willde- 

 now ; as for this very plant, which he defines " caule et calyce 

 aculeatis," he quotes the Trongum hortense (Herb. Amh. v. 238. 

 t. 85.), which has no prickles at all. It is true, that Plukenet 

 considers as the same an African plant called Tongu by the 

 people of Angola, Macumba by those of Congo, and Belingela 

 by the Portuguese ; but these latter in India gave this name to 



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