Solanum. | XCI. SOLANACEE (WRIGHT). 219 
_bellate, few-flowered : peduncle slender, ? in. long; pedicels spreading 
in flower, pendulous in fruit. Calyx cup-shaped ; lobes ovate, acute. 
Corolla rotate, white, } in. in diam. ; lobes oblong-lanceolate, acute. 
Stamens equal ; filaments short, cylindrical ; anthers | lin. long, oblong, 
obtuse, with 2 oblique pores near the apex. Style slightly longer than 
the stamens, pubescent below. Berry globose, glabrous, } in. in diam., 
black, more rarely red or yellow.—Mutel, Fl. Franc. tt. 39-40, figs. 
296-303 ; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 50; Benth. Fl. Austral. iv. 446; 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 229; Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 324; Engl. Pf. 
Ost-Afr. C. 351; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw, i. 745, excl. var. 
guineense; C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 89, excel. 8S. 
guineense ; var. villosum, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 186; var. rubrum, Vatke, 
le. 325; Engl. l.c. 352. S. villosum, Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. 8, n. 2; 
Engl. le. S. rubrum, Mill: le. n.4,notof Drége. S. incertum, Dunal, 
Hist. Sol. 155. S. miniatum, Bernh. ex Willd. Enum. Hort. Bero?. 
236; Engl. l.c. 352. WS. retroflexum, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 50. 
~S. alatum, Moench, Meth. 474; Schweinf. Beitr. F]. Aethiop. 276. 8S. 
erythrocarpon, Meyer, Prim. F]. Esseq. 109. S. sugfruticoswm, Schousb. 
in Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 236. S. plebeium, A. Rich. Tent. Fi. 
Abyss. ii. 100; Vatke, ].c. 325; Engl. le. 352. 8. grossedentatum, A. 
‘Rich. l.c. 101; Schweinf. in Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, xv. (1865) 
551. . 
Nile Land. Nubia: Hor Tamanib, Lord! Soturba Mountains, Schweinfurth, 
1106! sea-coast, Bent / Sudan: Sennar and Kordofan, Kotschy, 168! 184! 291! 
313! 355! 446! Darfur, Purdy, 109! Khartoum, Broun, 26! Petherick! 
Eritrea, Schweinfurth 4& Riva, 59! 1259! 1319! Abyssinia: various localities, 
Steudner, 734! Schimper, 46! 631! Quartin-Dillon, 232! Petit! Wellby! 
Somaliland, James & Thrupp! Miss E, Cole! Uganda, Whyte! British East 
Africa ; near Lake Elmeteita, Scott-Elliot, 6760 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola : various localities, Welwitsch, 6035! 6036! 60368 ! 
6053 ! 6099! 6101! 6101B ! 6109! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, Thomson! British 
Central Africa: Nyasaland; Masuka Plateau, Whyte! between Kondowe and 
Karonga, Whyte! Blantyre, Descamps ; Mount Mlanji, Purves, 1! 
23. S. nakurense, C. H. Wright in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 275. A 
shrub 3 ft. high. Stem quite glabrous. Leaves oblong, more or less 
acuminate, 1-2 in. long, }-1 in. wide, entire or slightly sinuate, with 
_a few simple hairs on both surfaces. Calyx campanulate; teeth 4-5, 
subulate. Corolla rotate, } in. in diam.; lobes 4-5, lanceolate, pubes- 
cent on both surfaces. Stamens 4—5; anthers subsessile, oblong, de- 
hiscing longitudinally. Ovary oblong, glabrous ; style nearly twice as 
long as the stamens. 
Nile Land. Uganda : various lozalities between Nandi and the Upper Mau 
Plateau, Whyte! near Lake Nakuru, 6000 ft , Scott-Elliot, 6800! 
24. S. carense, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 105. A bush. Stem 
woody, terete ; young branches stellately hairy. Leaves broadly ovate 
or suborbicular, entire or slightly sinuate, 1} in. long, 1 in. wide, with 
a few scattered stellate hairs on both surfaces; petiole 6-9 lin. long 
