* on the Hortus Malabarkus, Part II. V 269 



all the varieties of the aS. esculentum : among these, however, 

 we cannot include the Chimda, the fruit of which is not worth 

 dressing. • f^ 



The elder Burman continued to join the Chuncla with the 

 S. spinosum fructu rotundo, and applied them to the Elahathu of 

 the Ceylonese, which with Hermann he called S. Indicum spino- 

 sum, flare Borraginis, fructu croceo rotundo Persica magnitudine, 

 Pomum de Hiericho dictum (Thes. Zeyl. 219-)' Linnaeus having 

 procured no specimen of this, left it among the class Barbara 

 (Fl. Zeyl. 488.), and there it remained, until quoted by M. La- 

 marck for his S. undatum (Enc. Meth. iv. 301.). I have found 

 this plant in the Gangetic provinces. Except in the size of the 

 fruit it has the utmost affinity to the S. Gula, so that I shall 

 only note the points in which it differs from the description 

 which I have given of that plant. 



Solanum undatum. Enc. Meth. iv. 301. 



Solanum indicum spinosum, flore Borraginis, fructu croceo, ro- 

 tundo Persicae magnitudine, Pomum de Hiericho dictum. 

 Thes. Zeyl. 219. Lin. Fl. Zeyl. 488. 



Solanum spinosum fructu rotundo. Pluk. Aim. 350 ? 



Chunda s. Schunda. Hort. Mai. ii. 69. t. 37. 



Habitat in Magadhae ruderis et hortis. 



Pili in caule et foliorum pagina inferiore stellati, incani. Folia 

 minus sinuata, superioribus acutis. Bacca magnitudine 

 fere Juglandis, calyce multo major. Pedunculus fructife- 

 rus maxime incrassatus, ^ 



Near the villages of Gangetic India I have found a Solanum 

 still more nearly related to the Chunda than the Cheru Chunda is, 

 and called Kanta Baigun by the Bengalese. It seems to me to be 

 the S. zeylanicum {Enc. Meth. iv. 295. Sup. iii. 742.), and at 



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