208 XCI. SOLANACES (WRIGHT). | Solanwm. 
anthers oblong or lanceolate, conniving or cohering in a cone, dehiscing 
by pores, rarely by longitudinal aes Ovary 2-(rarely 3-4-)celled ; 
style simple ; stigma usually small; ovules numerous. Berry usually 
alobose, sometimes oblong. Seeds compressed, orbicular or subreni- 
form ; testa often minutely pitted; embryo much curved near the 
margin ; cotyledons semiterete. —Herbs, shrubs or small trees, some- 
times climbing, unarmed or spiny. Leaves alternate or geminate, 
entire, lobed or pinnatisect. Cymes extra-axillary, dichotomous, race- 
mose or umbellate, sometimes arranged in a terminal panicle. Flowers 
yellow, white, violet or purple. 
Species about 800, most abundant within the tropics, but extending into the 
temperate zone. 
S. cornigerum, André in Rey. Hort. 1868, 33, is a native of the Shan Hills, 
Burma, and not of Tropical Africa as was suggested i in the original description. 8S. 
insigne, Lowe, has been cultivated in Mossamedes (Hiern in Cat. Afr, Pl. Welw. i. 
749). 
* InerMES.—Plants without spines (except occasionally 
in S. pandureforme), 
+ Flowers in terminal or pseudoterminal panicles 
(See also S. verbascifolium). 
Filaments united . c : : : 1 
Filaments free. 
Leaves densely stellate tomentose below 
Leaves stellately hairy on both surfaces. 
Branches ashy-white . : . 3. 8, tettense. 
Branches violet. = : : . 4. S. somalense. 
Leaves glabrous or nearly so. 
Panicle diffuse 
Panicle compact. 
Lowest cluster of flowers on peduncles 
6-12 lin. long . : . 6. 8S. bifureum. 
Lowest cluster of flowers subsessile . 7. S. Welwitschit. 
++ Flowers not in terminal panicles. 
t+ Corolla at least 9 lin. in diam. 
Leaves glabrous. 
Calyx-lobes linear i . 8. S. aggregatum. 
Calyx-lobes foliaceous . . : . 9. 8. macrocarpon. 
Leaves stellately hairy. 
Leaves entire or slightly sinuate, oblong- 
lanceolate. 
Leaves pubescent. 
Corolla 12 lin. in diam, . 10. S. pandureforme. 
Corolla 9 lin, in diam. : . 11. S. psilostylum. 
Leaves scabrid ‘ . 12. S. benguelense. 
Leavesslightlysinuate, vate Tuceoleee: 13. S. Volkensti. 
Leaves distinctly sinuate, oblong. 
Flowers solitary or in pairs. . 14, 8S. Nawmanni. 
Flowers in racemose cymes. . 15, S. Monteiroi. 
Leaves sinuate, ovate-cordate “ . 16. S. Stuhlmannii. 
Leaves pinnately lobed. 
Leaves with stellate and simple hairs 
beneath . é . 17. S. Thomsont. 
Leaves with only stellate ee beneath 90. S. Melongena, var. 
anerme. 
. S, tneonstans. 
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. S. runsoriense. 
. S. bendirianum. 
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