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renewed from seed, though all the varieties are perennial; 

 but like the Capsicums not so productive after the first year. 

 They continue to blossom and bear fruit the whole year, but 

 chiefly during the cold season. In Bengal, in a rich soil, they 

 have very few prickles, but in a poor one many. 



8. S. long urn. B. 



Perennial. Leaves irregularly ovate, scolloped. Fruit 

 cylindrical, smooth. Calyx sometimes armed. 



Sans. Koolee. 



Beng. Kooli-begoon. 



Neer Wanga is the Telinga name of the plant, and Neer 

 Wanffkai the fruit. 



Long Brinjal of Europeans. 



I consider this to be a species clearly distinct from melon- 

 gena, for the fruit is always cylindrical, never changing by 

 culture into any other form. The plant is biennial, and in 

 every respect like Melongena, the fruit excepted. I have on- 

 ly met with it in gardens, where it is cultivated for the table, 

 and have had it nine years in mine without producing any 

 change in it. The cold season is the proper time for rearing 



it. 



The plants will exist several years, but are either dug up 

 or neglected after the first. 



Stem short, erect, somewhat woody. Branches numerous, 

 spreading, two-forked, downy, sometimes prickly ; the whole 

 plant is from two to three feet high. Leaves alternate, pe- 

 tioled, oblong, scolloped, or sub-lobate, downy ; from six to 

 ten inches long; sometimes the principal nerve is prickly on 

 the under side. Flowers bowing, large, of a beautiful, bright 

 bluish-purple, they are of two kinds, abortive with a minute 

 pistil on a small raceme or umbellet; and a single fertile 

 one upon its own proper petiole, which generally stands im- 

 mediately below or close by the peduncle of the racemes. 

 Calyx and petioles sometimes prickly. Berry pendulous, 

 cylindric, generally a little curved, but never in the least club- 



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