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S. INCERTUM, Dun. 
There are many varieties of this species ; some with black, some with red, and some with yellow fruit, all 
natives of India. The species was introduced in 1823. 
S. RUBRUM, Mill. 
A native of the East Indies, generally with the berries red or copper-coloured, introduced in 1817- There 
are above twenty other kinds which have been introduced, but which appear to bo now lost. 
GENUS III. 
SARACHA, Ruiz et Pavon. THE SARACHA. 
Lin. Syst. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Character. —Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla campanulately rotate, reflexed. Stamens bearded. Anthers separate, dehiscing lengthwise. 
Berry 2-celled, covered by the calyx to the middle.— (G. Don.) 
L—SARACHA PROCUMBENS, Ruiz et Pavon. THE PROCUMBENT SARACHA. 
Synonymfs. —Atropa procumhens, Cav. ; A. plicata, Roth. ; Sola- 
nuni procumhens, Dec. ; Physalis solauaceae, Ment. ; Bellinia pro- 
cumbens, Ram. et Schultes. 
Specific Character. —Leaves twin, unequal, ovate, quite entire, 
glabrous in the adult state, hut when young, villous on the margins and 
hack. Flowers umbellate, drooping. Filaments glabrous.—((?. Don.) 
Description, &c.— A procumbent plant, the flowers of which are cream-coloured, with a green margin, and 
the berries small and shining. A native of Peru, introduced in 1822. The genus Saracha was named by Ruiz 
and Pavon in honour of Isidore Safacha, a Benedictine monk, and a good botanist, who was the means of 
introducing many plants to the Botanic Garden at Madrid. The genus differs very slightly in a botanical point 
of view from Solanum , and the culture is the same as that of the different kinds of nightshade. We do not 
know where seeds are to be procured. 
2.—SARACHA UMBELLATA, Dec. THE UMBELLATE-FLOWERED SARACHA. 
Synonymes. —Atropa umhellata, Roth. ; A. Rothii, Poir. ; Bellinia i Specific Character. —Erect, hairy, much branched. Leaves ovate, 
umbellata, Ram. et Schultes. wrinkled, entire, shining, acute, scabrous; floral ones twin. Flowers 
Engravings. —Swit. Brit. Flow. Gard. t. 85. I umbellate, drooping. Filaments bearded at the base.—( G. Don.) 
Description, &c.— This is the most common species of Saracha. It is a strong, vigorous-growing plant, 
with a thick, deeply channelled stem. The flowers, which are produced in umbels, are smaller than those of 
S. procumhens , but they are of the same colour. The berry is of a dark purple. 
3.—SARACHA VISCOSA, Schrad. THE CLAMMY SARACHA. 
Engravings. —Swt. Brit. Flow. Gard., 2nd Ser. t. 323; and our 
Jig. 4, in Plate 46. 
Specific Character —Clothed in every part with glandular 
pubescence, and viscid. Stem erect, sutfruticose. Leaves twin, 
cordate, acuminated, sinuately toothed, and sometimes entire. Pedun¬ 
cles umbellate. Throat of corolla woolly. Fructiferous calyx 
coloured.—( G. Don.) 
Description, &c. —A very handsome plant: the stems are slender and graceful, growing about a foot 
high; the flowers large, cream-coloured, and marked with numerous olive-coloured spots; and the berry large 
and of a bright scarlet. The plant is a native of Mexico, whence it was introduced in 1835. It was at first 
treated as a greenhouse perennial ; but it is now found to succeed best as an annual in the open air. The seeds 
are not common, but when they can be obtained, they only require sowing in March or April in the open border. 
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