214 XCI, SOLANACEEH (WRIGHT). [ Solanum. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Monbuttu; Munza, Schweinfurth, 
3498! Sona Gunga, Luja, ex De Wildeman & Durand. 
Var. oblongum, C. H. Wright, l.c. 127. Leaves narrower, more obtuse and 
tapering more to the base. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Ambas Bay, Mann, X! 
The corolla-lobes remaining adherent for some time gave rise to the corolla being 
erroneously described as urceolate, 
8. S, aggregatum, Jacq. Coll. iv. 124. An erect unarmed shrub, 
4ft. high. Branches terete, rigid, minutely puberulous, lenticellate. 
Leaves aggregate, ovate to oblong, obtuse, up to 2 in. long by 14 lin. 
wide, entire or slightly repand, iong cuneate at the base, glabrous; 
midrib prominent; petiole up to 3 in. long. Flowers solitary or 2-3 
together ; pedicels slender, up to 1 in. long, cernuous in fruit. Calyx 
campanulate, } in. long; lobes linear, obtuse, as long as the tube, 
l-nerved. Corolla widely campanulate, 3 in. in diam., 5-partite ; lobes 
oblong, slightly undulate, rather acute, pubescent outside the apex. 
Stamens 5; filaments } lin. Jong, white; anthers oblong, yellow, 2 lin. 
long, pores terminal. Style white, 4-5 lin. long; stigma small. Fruit 
subglobose, yellow, as large as a pea; seeds few, compressed.—lc. t. 
$23; Drége in Linnea, xx. 203 ; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i, 160; 
C: H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 91. 8. monticolum, Dunal, |.c. 
161. Lycium sp., Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 79, 88. 
Atropa solanacea, Linn. Mant. Alt. 205; Thunb. Prodr. 37, and Fi 
Cap. ed. Schult. 191. 
Guinea, ex Jacquin. 
Also in South Africa. 
9. S. macrocarpon, Linn. Mant. Alt, 205. A stout subshrub. 
Stem terete, much branched, smooth, when young sparingly furnished 
with simple hairs. Leaves ovate, sinuate-repand, generally tapering 
to the base, 8 in. long, 4in. wide, glabrous ; petiole short, channelled 
above. Cymes short, racemose, almost, leaf-opposed. Calyx campanur 
late ; lobes 5, foliaceous, enlarging in fruit. Corolla broadly campanu- 
late, 1din. in diam., blue-purple; lobes 5, broadly triangular. Stamens 
5; anthers lanceolate, pores terminal, small. Ovary globose ;_ style 
rather longer than the stamens. Berry globose, yellow, the size ° 
an apple—Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 353. 8, Mors-elephantum, 
at Cat. No. 70, 100, fig. 81; Wien. Ill. Gartenz. 1894, 30; 
aa ae 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Last! German East Africa, Stuhlmann. British 
Central Africa: Nyasaland, Buchanan, 1054! Uganda: 2nd march from Lubwas, 
Whyte! 
10, S. pandurzeforme, £. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pfanzengecg” 
Documente, 147. A much-branched shrub, 2-4 ft. high ; spines few oF 
many, short, subulate from a broad base. Branches terete, densely 
stellately pubescent. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, sinuate, acute, 2] in 
by 1 in., tapering to the base, stellately pubescent on both surfaces, 
sometimes spiny on the underside of the midrib; petiole } in. long: 
Cymes pseudo-terminal, racemose, the lowest flower alone fertile. 
Calyx j in. long, 5-toothed or deeply 5-lobed (sometimes on the same 
