Solarium. pentandria monogynia. 25? 



eel from the slightly decurrent base of the leaf. — Flowers axillary, 

 fascicled, nodding.— Peduncles villous, clavate, about an inch long, 

 six or eioht in each axilla.— Bractes none. — Calyx campanu- 

 late, truncate, five-toothed, villous, coloured ; teeth long, subulate, 

 fleshy, distant, erect, sub-decurrent, mostly with two or three smaller 

 ones between them. — Corolla extremely thick and fleshy, smooth, 

 sinning, purple or white, rotate, about five lines in diameter, rather 

 larger than the calyx, with a very short tube, and ovate, acute laci- 

 nia, which are valvate with introflexed margins during the aestivati- 

 on.— Filaments very short. A nthers thick, biporous, erect, smooth, 

 purplish. — Ovarium oblong, smooth, bilocular. Stigma sub-capitate, 

 small.— J3e/T?/ smooth, globular, bright scailet, half an inch in dia- 

 meter. 



Obs. This species is remarkable on account of its exceedingly 

 thick and fleshy corolla, which is in general purplish. It varies much 

 in the size of all its parts, chiefly the leaves. — N. W. 



19. S. hjsimachioides, Wall. 



Sub-herbaceous, diffuse, creeping, pubescent, with adscendi<<2J 

 branches. Leaves geminate, ovate, acute, entire. Flowers solitary, 

 interpetiolary. Calyx from eight to ten-toothed, teeth long, spread- 

 ing, unequal. Corolla large, flat, deeply divided. Berry globular, 

 soft, red. 



S. bijlorum, Lour, cochinch. ed. Willd. i. 1 59 r 



I have found this species on Sheopore, Chundva-giri, and at Chit- 

 long, in flower during the rains, with ripe berries in Januaiy and 

 February. 



Roots long, filiform, fibrous. — Stems slender, round, creeping, as 

 well as the other parts sparingly beset with soft, spreading hairs; 

 branches ascending,' filiform, simple, a foot or two long. — Leaves 

 in remote pairs, ovate, cuspidate-acute or sub-acuminate, acute at 

 the base, from one to two inches long; margins most entire, gibbous, 

 lather unequal, somewhat repand, ciliate, with capillary nerves and 



