Solarium. pentandria monogynia. 565 



mon leaves than stipules. Cymes in the forks of the branchlets 

 long-peduncled, dichotoinous. Ramifications recurvate, sub- 

 secund. Flowers numerous, sub-sessile, sin all, lively blue- 

 purple. Berry spherical, size of a small cherry, when ripe of 

 a dull yellow. 



Obs. Independently of the colour of the flowers, the stipula? 

 or axillary leaves render this species readily known ; in all 

 other respects it almost exactly resembles the preceding- ; in 

 that plant there are no stipulse, and the flowers are white. 



S. S. Lycopersicum. Willd. sp. i. 1033. 



Annual. Leaves pinnate, gashed. Racemes bipartite, leaf- 

 less. Fruit smooth, vertically compressed, torulose. 



Ponium amoris. Rumph. Amb. v. t. 154. f. 1. 



Although this is now very common in India, I suspect it is 

 as little a native as the common potatoe, which is now very 

 generally cultivated over India, even by the natives for their 

 own use. 



4. S. rubrum. Willd. sp. i. 1034. 



Annual, erect, unarmed. Branches somewhat angular. 

 Leaves ovate, dentate, lobate. Umbels short-ped uncled. 

 Flowers and berries drooping. 



Beng. Goorkh?. 



Nelen tsjuuda. Rheed. Mil. x. /. 73. 



A common weed in gardens all over India, with flowers and 

 ripe seed the whole year round. 



Seeds received from the Mauritius under the name of So- 

 larium nodiflorum, (Willd. sp. i. 1035,) produced this very 

 plant. On that Island it is called Brede, and very generally 

 cultivated as a pot herb. 



5. S. decemdenlatum. /?. 



Annual, erect, ramous, hairy. Leaves in pairs or solitary 

 with a branchlet, ovate. Peduncles axillary, from two to six 

 together, one-flowered. Calyx ten-toothed. 



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