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“Violette ronde”? and ‘‘blanche ronde" varieties are dis- 
tinguished in Dahomey (L'Agric. prat. pays chauds. ii. 1902-03, 
p. 29); "New York Purple” and “Black Beauty” are recom- 
mended in Cuba (Austen and Halstead, Est. Cent. Agron, Cuba, 
Bull. No. 13, 1908, p. 39). 
Five varieties are mentioned as cultivated in Szechuan, China, 
‘* Chin pa tzu "-—long purple; ‘“‘Tung Kuan"-—roun purple; 
"Tzu hua"—long purple green striped; ‘“‘Nui nai’ —long 
purple and ** Pai’’—long light green, supplying the market from 
June to October (Hosie, Report No. 5, 1904; p. 15). 
Seeds may be sown in boxes or seed-beds at intervals during the 
i , and they may be 
planted out when about 18 in. high in rows 21-3 ft. apart. A 
rich, weli, drained soil and moderate rainfall is essential. The 
plants begin to bear in about 3 or 4 months and may be kept in 
season throughout the year. 
Comm. Prod. India, Watt, pp. 1 '* Aubergine 
gena," in Pl. Potagéres, Vilmorin-Andrieux, - 
pp. 22-30, illustrated; English Translation, Robinson, 
pp. 289-294. 
Solanum nodiflorum, Jacg.; Fl. Trop. Afr. IV. Sect. 2, p. 218. 
Ill.—Jacq. Ic. Pl. Rar. ii. t. 326; Bettfreund, FI. Argent. iii. 
t. 153. 
Vernac. names.—Disue (Golungo Alto, Welwitsch); Herva 
Moira (Portuguese, Welwitsch); Anamamy (Madagascar, Heckel). 
In West Africa from Senegal to the Cameroons, and extending 
through Tropical Afriea to Mozambique. 
- The berries resemble small grapes-—black or teen ed à in 
colour. "The deep purple juice is used by the natives of Golungo 
the purple berries had, after upwards of 40 years, 
preserved its original colour (Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. Pl. iii 
746) nt 1s used as a vegetable mixed with rice or as 
spinach, and the leaves pounded and mixed with those of palma- 
christi and native saffron (Curcuma longa) are used to makea wash 
for the cure of ‘‘ Tomboka " or anthrax and bubos, Madagascar 
Heckel, Ann. L'Inst. Col. Marseille, i. 1903, 2nd fasc. p. 76, 
olanum nigrum, var. nodiflorum). 
A herbaceous plant, flowering and fruiting freely, sometimes 
shrubby, 1-4 ft. high, in the Cameroon Mts. 7000-10,000 ft. 
(Mann, Herb. Kew); found about Nupe but not common (Barter, 
Herb. Kew), in places neglected after cultivation and about 
