568 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Solanum, 



bed, smooth, yellow; from nine to eighteen inches long, and 

 from one and a half to two and a half in diameter, it is gener- 

 ally three-celled. 



9. S. insanum. Willd. sp. i. 1007. 



Perennial, (in a poor soil) armed. Leaves ovate, sinuate, 

 downy. Peduncles from one to four-flowered. Calyx often 

 armed. Fruit from oval to spherical, polished. 



A native of Amboyna, yet I doubt whether Rumphius's 

 Trongnm hortensi can be any other than the real Indian me- 

 longena. From the same Island, the seeds of a variety of the 

 above (insanum J, were brought to the Botanic garden at 

 Calcutta. Their plants are more spinous, and the fruit per- 

 fectly round, white, and smooth, almost the size of a small 

 Crab-apple. This I lake to be Rumphius's Trongnm agreste, 

 vol. v. p. 240. t. S6.J'. 1. and so far as my observation ex- 

 tends, it is not cultivated on the continent of India. 



10. S. athiopicum. Willd. sp. i. 1036. 



Annual, scarcely armed. Leaves oval, repand, downy. 

 Peduncles one-flowered. Berries red, smooth, depressed, 

 five-lobed. 



From the Mauritius, where it is said to be indigenous, it 

 has been introduced into the Botanic garden at Calcutta, 

 where it grows to the height of about two feet, with many 

 spreading branches, clothed with short stellate pubescence, 

 and here and there a small straight prickle ; flowers white, 

 and appear at all seasons. 



11. S. diffusnm. R. 



Diffuse, perennial, prickly. Leaves oval, deeply scollop- 

 ed, downy and prickly on both sides. Peduncles and calijcei 

 prickly. Berries round. 



Solanum incanum chinense. Pluck. Aim. 62. f. 1. 



Sans. Surputr/noo, Kshwnka, Peetutundooh, PootYupvu- 



