218 XCI. SOLANACEZ (WRIGHT). [Solanum. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Sh'bisa (Chikwawa), 
Kirk ! 
20. S. Geetzei, Dammer in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 473. An un- 
armed shrub, about 3 ft. high. Branches terete, densely puiverulent 
with stellate hairs, reddish at the apex. Leaves Janceolate or obovate, 
acute or acuminate, attenuate at the base, up to 6 in. long and 2 in. 
broad, with scattered stellate hairs on both surfaces; petiole 9 lin, long. 
Inflorescence usually leaf-opposed, racemose, bifid; peduncle short, 
densely stellate tomentose ; pedicels up to 5 lin. long, stellately pilose. 
Calyx 5-fid stellately pilose ; lobes broadly obovate, mucronate. Corolla 
violet, 7 lin. in diam. ; lobes 5, linear-lanceolate, acute, stellately pilose 
outside. Stamens 5, subequal ; filaments short, glabrous; anthers 2 lin. 
long, tapering upwards. Style longer than the stamens, arcuate at the 
- apex ; stigma subglobose. Berry the size of a pea, shining red. Seeds 
reniform, with large tubercles. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Usaramo; Kikoka, Stuhlmann, 127; 
Khutu Steppe, 1000 ft., Goetze, 112! Usegna; Kiwanla, Fischer, 409. 
21. S. nodiflorum, Jacq. /c. ii. 11, ¢. 326. Stem erect, herba- 
ceous or suffruticose; branches herbaceous, terete, glabrous. Leaves 
ovate, acuminate, 4 in. long, 2 in. wide, entire, glabrous; petiole 1} in. 
long. Cymes umbellate, at or above the nodes, few-flowered. Calyx- 
lobes 5, oblong, obtuse. Corolla rotate, white, } in. in diam.; lobes ), 
oblong, acute. Anthers with large oblique pores. Fruit globose, 5-6 
lin. in diam., glabrous, black —Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 46; Hiern 
in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 745. S. nigrum, var guineense, Linn. Sp. Pl. 
ed. 1, 186; Hiern, l.c. S. guineense, Lam. Ill. ii. 18; Engl. Glied. Veg. 
Usambara, 22, 55, and Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 351. S. tinctorium, Welw. 
Apont. Pnyto-geogr. 551, 590, No. 95, and Syn. Explic. 29, No. 70; 
‘Hiern in Journ. Bot. 1895, 75. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Roger, 17! Senegambia, Brunner! Sierra Leone, 
Vogel, 108! Gold Coast: Aquapim, Vogel! Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 
. 1054! Cameroons : Cameroon Mountain, Mann, 1321! Efulen, Bates, 279! 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Ahl Mountains near Maid, Hildebrandt, 1410! 
Bongo, Schweinfurth, 2649! Niamniam, Schweinfurth, 3242! Uganda: Ruwen- 
zori, 6000-900 ft., Scott-Elliot, 7659! 7821! various Jocalities, Wilson, 77! 
Whyte! British East Africa: various localities, Whyte! Kassner, 332! 434! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: various localities from Loonda and Ambriz to 
Huilla, Gossweiler, 464! Monteiro! Welwitsch, 6033! 6034! 6102! 6103! 6108 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, Johnston, 76! Usam- 
bara ; Amboni, Holst, 2840! Uniamwezi; Mininga, Speke & Grant, 791 Karagwe 
Speke & Grant, 453! British Central Africa: River Shire, Kirk! 
22. S. nigrum, Zinn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 186. An annual herb. Stem 
angular, more or less pubescent, up to 2 ft. high. Leaves ovate, 
obovate or lanceolate, sinuate-dentate, more rarely entire, tapeT!D8 
downwards into the petiole, more or less pubescent with simple hairs on 
both surfaces, up to 4 by 2in.; petiole up to 1 in. long. Cymes um- 
