fjfif 7 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNTA. Solatium, 



10. S atUopicum, fVilld. sp.\. 1036. 



Annual, scarcely aimed. Leaves oval, repand, downy. Teduncles 

 one-flowered. Berries red, smooth, depressed, tive-lobed. 



From the Mauritius, where it is said to be indigenous, it has been 

 introduced into the botanic garden at Calcutta, where it grows to 

 the height of about two feet, with many spreading branches, clothed 

 with short stellate pubescence, and here and there a small straight 

 prickle ; flowers white, and appear at all seasons. 



U.S. diffmum,) R * 



Diffuse, perennial, prickly. Leaves oval, deeply scolloped, downy 

 and prickly on both sides. Peduncles and calyces prickly. Berries 

 round. 



Solanum incanum chinense, Pluck. Aim. 6Q.f< 1. 



Sung. ^IJcig, S M rpKtnnoo, ^lf5^iT, Kshim'ka, iftcPT^T, Pee- 

 ttitandoola, "innr^T, Pootmprtfda, ^TfTsTC, Bwhoophwla, TTlf^pftj 

 Godhniee, ^fq^'f Tk Kapzaesbwuree, f^C^TT, Kinna, ^imTif 

 ^\t 3 Ktttoovarttakee, zJ^sTT, Kshetruja, 



Teling. Nella Mollunga. 



This is by far the most common species I know ; every soil and 

 situation seems to suit it equally well} it is in flower all the year 

 round, and often perennial. 



Stem none, but numerous irregular, woody, diffuse, two-forked 

 brauches spread on the ground, or near it ; young shoots covered 

 with stellate down; all the branches thickly armed with strong, sharp, 

 compressed, somewhat recurved prickles. — Leaves alternate, petiol- 

 ed, oval, much scolloped, or slightly lobate ; both sides covered with 

 stellate down, and the veins armed with straight prick'es. — Ffozeers 

 as in S. longum, except that here the raceme is sometimes wanting. 

 — Berry perfectly globular, smooth, about an inch in diameter, 

 colour varying according as they have been exposed to the sun, or 

 sheltered ; in the former case they are yellow, in the latter white ; 



* Ssems to be S. agreste, Roth. nov. sp. 130.— N. W. 



