Solatium. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 565 



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

 long -peduncled, dichotomous. Ramifications recurvate,sub- 

 secund. Flowers numerous, sub-sessile, small, 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 sti pulse 

 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. 



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



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

 less. Fruit smooth, vertically compressed, torulose. 



Ponium amoris. Rumph. A nth. v. t. 154./. 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, Iobate. Umbels short-ped uncled. 

 Flowers and berries drooping. 



Beng. Goorkli?. 



Nelen tsjunda. Rheed. Mil. x. t. 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- 

 latium nndijiorum, (Willd. sp. i. 1035,) produced this very 

 plant. On that 1-land it is called Brede, and very generally 

 cultivated as a pot herb. 



5. S. decemdentatnm. R. 



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

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

 tooether, one-flowered. Calyx ten-toothed. 



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