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ing a single fertile and the other several short-stalked barren flowers. 
Calyx J-l inch long ; teeth linear or lanceolate, as long as the tube. 
Corolla violet, an inch long and broad. Berry yellow, the size of an 
apple. Miller , Ic. t. 294. 
Mauritius and Rodriguez, in waste ground. Also Madagascar and Comoros. 
Grosse Anghive. 
4. S. auriculatum, Ait. ; Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. 115. A shrubby 
perennial, 6-10 ft. high, with steins and leaves beneath clothed with 
dense persistent whitish tomentum. Leaves oblong, acute, entire, 
cuneate at the base, 6-9 in. long, minutely downy above, venulose and 
tomentose beneath ; petiole 1-2 in. long, with a pair of large oblong per- 
sistent stipules like the leaves in texture. Blowers very numerous, in 
dense long-peduncled dichotomous cymes 3-6 in. broad. Calyx i in. 
long, densely matted; teeth lanceolate. Corolla \ in. broad, violet, 
pilose externally. Berry small, yellow, pilose. 
Mauritius, frequent by roadsides and on the borders of woods. Round the 
world in the tropics. Tabac mar r on. 
* S. indicum , Linn. ; Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. 309 ; (S. Anguivi, 
Bojer in HooJc. FI. Fxot. t. 199), widely spread in the tropics of 
the Old World, is now common in Mauritius and Rodriguez in 
waste ground. It is a shrubby perennial, with abundant prickles on 
the branches, petioles, peduncles, leaf-veins and calyx, oblong dis- 
tinctly petioled leaves with a few deltoid lobes clothed beneath with 
white tomentum, flowers few in lax subsessile corymbose cymes on 
long pedicels, small tomentose calyx with lanceolate teeth, expanded 
violet corolla ^ in. broad, berry orange or red glabrous shining 
the size of a large pea. Anghive or Bringelle marron. Petite 
Anghive. 
* S. Melongena , Linn ; Wt. Ic. t. 166, widely spread through the 
tropics of the Old World, is commonly cultivated and subspontaneous 
in Mauritius, Rodriguez, and the Seychelles. It is a shrubby peren- 
nial, 2-4 ft. high, with stem and leaves on both sides clothed with per- 
sistent whitish tomentum, prickles copious straw-coloured those of the 
branches \ in. long rather hooked, leaves thin broad oblong 4-5 in. 
long with a few broad lobes, cymes sessile few-flowered with mostly 
only one flower fertile, flower calyx \ in. long densely tomentose, ex- 
panded corolla violet an inch broad, berry size of a small apple very 
variable in shape and colour globose or oblong white violet yellow 
purple or nearly black. Here belong as varieties S. incanum , Linn. ; 
S. edule , Thonn. ; S. undatum , Lam. ; S. ovigerum, esculentum and 
Jieteracantlium , Dunal. Gros Bringelle or Anghive. 
* S. sanctum, Linn. (S. coagulans, For sic. ; Dunal in DC. Prod. xv. 
319), a native of the warm temperate zone of the Old World from 
Egypt to China, is in Dr. Balfour’s Rodriguez collection. It is a much- 
