564 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Solatium. 



SECT. I. Unarmed. 



1. S. ptibescens. Willd. spec. i. 1026. 

 Sub-arboreous, unarmed. Leaves alternate, oblong, point- 

 ed, entire, downy. Cymes d ichotomous. 



Gandira* the Sanscrit name, see Asiat. Res. iv. 258. 



Beny. Uiusa. 



Teliny. Rusa ghed/' maun. 



Amongst the mountains in the Telinga country this grows 

 to be a small or middle-sized tree, with a very thick shady 

 head. Flowers during the hot season. 



Leaves alternate, short petioled, oblong, entire, downy, 

 from six to ten inches long. Cymes terminal or leaf-oppos- 

 ed, two-cleft; ramifications recurved. Flowers small, white, 

 very numerous. Berry the size of a cherry, 



2. S. anriculatum. Willd. spec. i. 1025. 



Sub-arboreous, every part downy. Leaves broad-lanceo- 

 late, entire. Stipules axillary, obliquely ovate-cordate. 

 Cymes in the forks of the branchlets, dichotomous. 



A native of Mauritius, and introduced by Captain Tennant, 

 into the Botanic garden at Calcutta; where it blossoms dur- 

 ing the rainy and cold seasons, and continues to ripen its fruit 

 from December till May. 



Stem nearly erect, in six years as thick as a man's leg, and 

 about eight feet high. Bark smooth, ash-coloured. Branches 

 dichotomous, spreading much. Branchlets and all the ten- 

 der parts most completely clothed with sessile and pedicell- 

 ed, hoary, stellate pubescence. Leaves alternate, petioled, 

 broad-lanceolar, tapering to a rather obtuse point, entire ; 

 clothed underneath like the branchlets ; upper surface a little 

 hairy ; from four to eight inches long, and two or three broad. 

 Petioles channelled, downy like the branchlets. Stipules in 

 sessile, axillary pairs, obliquely ovate-cordate, large, and re- 

 curvate round the branchlets, looking more like small com- 



* This name probably belongs to some other species. — W. C. 



