570 pentandma monogynia. Solatium. 



sides near villages. It is in blossom, and produces ripe fruit 

 most part of the year. 



Root at least biennial. Stem none, but several, flexuose, 

 ramous branches, spreading close on the ground, for an ex- 

 tent of some feet, often striking root at the insertion of the 

 leaves; angular, nearly void of pubescence. Leaves frequent- 

 ly in pairs, oblong, pinnatitid, or laciuiate, smooth, but arm- 

 ed on both sides with long, strong-, straight spines. Racemes 

 between the leaves, and almost as long, bearing four, five, 

 or six alternate, pedicelled, large, bright blue flowers. Calyx 

 armed with straight spines. Berries spherical, size of a large 

 gooseberry, very smooth, drooping, while immature variegat- 

 ed with green and white, when ripe with different shades of 

 yellow only. 



13. S. indicum. Willd. sp. i. 1042. 



Shrubby, armed, very ramous. Leaves ovate, lobate, dow- 

 ny, armed on both sides. Racemes leaf-opposed. Calyx arm- 

 ed. Berries erect, round, smooth. 



Beng. Vyakool, Vyakoor, Goorkama?. 



Cheru-chunda. Rheecl. Mai. ii. t. 36. 



Solatium fructescens, &c. Bitrm. Zeyl. p. 220. /. 102, is a 

 pretty good representation of this plant, but I think Dille- 

 nius's S. indicum spinosum Jlore boragineo, t. 270. f. 349. 

 must have been taken from a very different species, the flow- 

 ers being much too large, and the leaves too deeply divided 

 for our East Indian plant. 



Trunk trifling, but the branches are numerous, ligneous, 

 and perennial, forming a large, very ramous shrub of several 

 feet in height, armed with numerous very acute, somewhat 

 recurved spines ; the young parts are downy. Leaves solita- 

 ry, or in pairs, petioled, ovate lobate, downy, and armed with 

 a few straight spines on both sides, from two to four inches 

 long. Racemes between or opposite to the leaves, support- 

 ing several long-pedicelled, middle-sized, pale blue flowers. 

 Calyx deeply five-cleft, armed. Berries erect, round, smooth, 



