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Solanum. | XCI. SOLANACER (WRIGHT). 221 
surfaces, more or less cuneate at the base, 1} in. long, nearly 1 in. wide. 
Cymes racemose, few-flowered ; peduncle and pedicels pilose ; pedicels 
clavate, $ in. long. Calyx campanulate, pubescent; lobes 5, ovate, 
Corolla 5 lin. long; tube short, glabrous outside; lobes ovate, hairy 
outside, Anthers subsessile, oblong, obtuse, nearly 1 lin. long, pores 
oblique. Style longer than the stamens; stigma capitate. Berry } in. 
in diam., globose, seated on the accrescent calyx.—S. nigrum, forma, 
Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vii. 209. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, 7000-10000 ft., Mann, 
1988 ! 
29. S. subulatum, (©. H. Wright. An unarmed shrub, stem, 
leaves and inflorescence covered with scurfy stellate hairs when young. 
Leaves oblong, acute at both ends, 6 in. long, 2 in. wide ; petiole 2 in. 
long. Inflorescence extra-axillary, many-flowered, the first 4 or 5 
divisions dichotomous. Calyx cupular; teeth 5, distant, subulate, 
Corolla divided nearly to the base; lobes 5, oblong, acute, 2 lin. long, 
with stellate hairs outside; midrib prominent within. Anthers sub- 
sessile, slightly tapering to the apex. Ovary globose; style linear, 
rather longer than the anthers, with stellate hairs on the lower part. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: N yasaland ; Masuka Plateau, 6500- 
7000 ft., Whyte, 280! 
30. S. verbascifolium, Zinn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 184. An unarmed 
shrub or almost a tree. Leaves ovate-oblong, acuminate, quite entire, 
up to 8in. long, upper surface with adpressed stellate hairs, lower mealy 
with dense stellate tomentum. Inflorescence corymbose, subterminal, 
at length lateral, mealy (except inside the corolla) with stellate 
tomentum ; peduncle usually forked. Calyx-tube campanulate, 2 lin. 
long ; lobes not quite as long as the tube, broadly triangular. Corolla 
4 in. in diam., white, rarely pale blue; tube short; lobes 5, oblong. 
Filaments very short; anthers oblong, obtuse, pores slightly oblique, 
wide. Berry globose, up to Lin. in diam., yellow.—Jacq. Hort. Vind. 
1 t. 13; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 114; Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 449; 
C. B. Cl. in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 230. 
Upper Guinea. Lagos, Millen, 50! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Malange, Gossweiler, 1105! 
Also in Tropical Asia, North Australia, and Tropical America. 
31. S. schimperianum, //ochst. in Flora, 1841, i. Intell. 24. A 
shrub about 5ft. high. Stem terete, stellately hairy when young, 
glabrous when old. Leaves ovate, acute, about 1 in. long, ? in. wide, 
covered with more or less deciduous stellate hairs; petiole channelled 
above. Inflorescence few-flowered. Calyx cyathiform, 2 lin. long, 
4-partite. Corolla 1 in. in diam., stellately hairy outside ; lobes 4, 
ovate-oblong, longer than the tube. Stamens 4 ; anthers 1} lin. long, 
oblong, obtuse. Stigma slightly 2-lobed. Berry globose, 5 lin. in diam. 
—Dunalin DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 94; Vatkein Linnea, xliii. 326: Engl. 
PA. Ost-Afr. ©. 352. 
