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15. Melongena, L. (0. Don. o. c. p. 432 ; — Nees.) 



a. Fertile peduncle solitary, often with a small raceme of sterile flowers. 

 aa. Stem, leaves, and calyxes, unarmed, or nearly so. (Solanum ovi- 

 gerum, Dun. — Rom. and Sch. ; — Bl. — S. Melongena, L. — JVilld. 

 Roxb. fl. ind. 1, p. 566 ; ed. Carey, 2, p. 248 ; — Lour. ,- — J. Grah. 

 Cat. B. pi. p. 138, partl)^ — S. pseudo-undatum, BL; — Rumph. 5, 

 t. 85.) C^~^*l Begoon. Brinjal. Egg-plant. %. All over India. Fl. 

 largish, violet, C. S. ; fr. H. S. 

 |3j3. Stem, leaves, and calyxes more or less aculeate. (Solanum 

 esculentum. Dun.; — Rom. and Sch. — S. Melongena, L. suppl. ; 

 — Roxb. I. c. partly ; — Lour, partly. — S. insanum, L. ; Willd. ; 

 not Roxb. — S. longum, Roxb. ft ind. 1, p. 567 ; ed. Carey, 2, p. 

 248 ; — Rheed. 10, t. 74.) ^f^ C'^^'i Kooli-begoon. Long Brinjal. 

 % Like aa. cultivated all over India. Fl. largish, bright bluish- 

 purple, C. S. ; fr. H. S. 

 The fruit of each of these varieties is either ovate- oblong or oblong, vio- 

 let or white ; — or globular (larger and smaller), violet ; or more and less 

 globular, white, or white striped on a violet ground. 



j3. Fertile, peduncle racemose-corymbose, 3-4 flowered ; stem, leaves, 

 and calyxes aculeate ; fruit smaller, ovate, or somewhat globular, in 

 some enclosed within the calyx. (Solanum Melongena spontaneum ; — 

 S. insanum, Roxb. fl. ind. \,p. 568; — ed. Carey, 2, ft. 249; excl. 



syn. Rumph. not L S. undatum. Lam. ; — Bl. — S. incanum, L. ; 



— Dun. ; — Rom. and Sch. — S. Zeylanicum, Scop. %. Moluccas. 

 In H. C. G. fl. C. S. ; fr. H. S. (Roxb.) 



16. sodomeum, L. {G. Don. o. c. p. 433 ; — Lam. ill. No. 2358, t. 115, /. 

 1 ■,—R. Br. prodr. p. 446 ; — Roxb. H. B. p. 17 ■,—Sibth. and Sm. fl. 

 gr. I. 235.) B S. Europe. N. Africa. N, Holland. C. G. H. Brazil. 

 Fl. purple. Introduced into H. C. G. in 1798, but had not fl. up to 

 1814. 



\1, marginatum, L. {G. Don. o. c. p. 434 ;—Jacq. icon. rar. 1, t. 45;— 

 Dun. solan, p. 215, t. 3 ;— B. M. 44, t. 1928.) 5 Palestine. Fl. large, 

 white, with a central purple star. Introduced into H. C. G. before 

 1814, but had not flowered then. 



18. campechiense, L. (G. Don. I. c. ; — Willd. sp. ; excl. syn. L. Mant. — 

 S. acanthifolium. Mill.) © Campeche Bay. Fl. pale, violet. Intro- 

 duced in 1841. 



19. indicum, L. (G. Don. a. c. p. 433 ; — Nees. ; — Roxb. fl. ind. I, p. 570 ; 

 ed. Carey, 2, p. 252;— Wight, icon. 2, t. 346 ;— ,/. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 

 138; excl. syn. Rumph.; — Burm. zeyl. t. 102; — Lour.; — S. vio- 

 laceum, Jacq. ; — Riim. and Sch. ; — Bun. ; — G. Don. o. c. p. 437. — 

 S. canescens, Bl. ;— Rheed. 2, t. 36.) ^Jt^^ Byakoor. L. t All over 

 India. Fl. middle-sized, blue, and fr. the whole year. 



%).ferox, L. {G. Don. u. c. p. 435 ;— Willd. ;—Rom. and Sch. ;—Dun. ; 

 Nees. ; — J. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 139. — S. iiivolucratum, /i/.— S. 



