572 PENTANDRI V MONOGYNIA. Solunum. 



Is a scarce plant, grows in the country about Calcutta, 

 and is found in flower and fruit in August. 



Root perennial. Stem scarcely any, but many sub-ligne- 

 ous branches covered with much down, and armed with in- 

 numerable, small, erect spines. Leaves double, as in several 

 of the Physali; petioled, one of the pair always much larger 

 than the other, but it is from the axills of the smallest that the 

 branchlets issue ; they are obcordate, irregularly angle-lob- 

 ed ; the upper surface is thickly covered with much erect, 

 soft hair, on the under side it is more distinctly stellate, and 

 whitish ; nerve and larger veins armed on both sides with 

 strong straight prickles, the largest from six to nine inches 

 long, and from four to six broad, the smaller about half the 

 size. Petioles round, hairy, prickly ; those of the large 

 leaves half their length, and coloured on the upper side ; 

 those of the smaller ones about one-fourth part of their 

 length. Umbel generally opposite, and below the leaves, sim- 

 ple, few-flowered. Feduncfes and pedicels short and hairy, 

 but not prickly. Flowers white, pretty large. Cali/x hairy, 

 otherwise unarmed. Corol very hairy on the outside. An- 

 thers sessile, conical. Germ hairy. Berries the size of a 

 nutmeg, round, very hairy, four-celled, as in Datura. 



16. S. stramonifolium. Jacqn. 



Shrubby, erect. Branches, petioles and leaves sparingly 

 beset with strong, flattened prickles. Leaves alternate or 

 geminate, ovate, unequally cordate, deeply sinuate lobatp, 

 with stellate pubescence on both sides. Corymbs lateral, 

 bifid, unarmed, with glandular, slightly viscous pubescence. 

 Corolla flat, with undulate tannine. Berry round, smooth ; 

 on thickened, clavate peduncles. 



Beng. Gota bego^n. 



This is an exceedingly common plant in Bengal, where it 

 grows near the habitations of men ; in blossom and fruit the 

 whole year. 



