566 PENTANDR1A MON'OGYNIA. SolanUM. 



A native of China ; from thence introduced into the Bota- 

 nic garden at Calcutta, where it blossoms and ripens its ber- 

 ries most part of the year. 



It lias the habit of a robust, pubescent variety of Solarium 

 nigrum. 



Sttms annual, nearly erect, with alternate, flexuose, pubes- 

 cent, round branches and branchlets ; general height two or 

 three feef. Leaves in pairs or single, and accompanied with 

 a branchlet, petioled, ovate-oblong, somewhat acute, villous. 

 Peduncles axillary, from two to six together, one flowered, 

 drooping when in blossoms. Ca/i/.v ten-toothed, pubescent. 

 Berries the size of a pea, smooth, bright red, when ripe. 



6. S. spirale. R. 



Shrubby, void of pubescence. Leaves paired, lanceolar, 

 entire. Racemes lateral, the unexpanded part spirally re- 

 volute. Segments of the calyx glandular. 



Bugna is the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is indi- 

 genous, and in flower and fruit at various times of the year. 

 Though rather foetid it is an ornamental species on account 

 of its smooth, deep green leaves ; spiral racemes of pretty 

 white flowers ; and numerous small, round yellow berries. 



SECT. II. Armed. 



7. S. Melongena. Willd. sp. i. 1036. 



Perennial. Leaves obliquely ovate, downy, scollop-Iobed. 

 Fertile flowers solitary, long ped uncled, drooping- ; the bar- 

 ren ones on small racemes. Fruit oval, smooth. 



Beng. Begoon. 



Hind. Ban<>an. 



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Teling. Wangkai. 



Nila-Barudena. Rheed. Mai. x. 147. t. 74. 

 Trongum hortense. Humph. A nib. v. 238. t. 85. 

 Of this very universally useful, esculent species, there are 

 many varieties cultivated in Iudia. The plants are annually 



