224 XCI, SOLANACEE (WRIGHT). [ Solanum. 
Prodr. xiii. i. 352; J. Braun in Mitth. Deutsch, Schutzgeb. ii. (1889) 
¥78. 
Upper Guinea. (iuinea (Gold Coast?) : cultivated land, Thonning. Togo, 
Braun, 
39. S. albifolium, C. H, Wright in Kew Bulletin,1894, 127, A 
shrub or small tree. Stem terete, when young clothed with white 
stellate hairs. Leaves pinnately lobed about halfway to the midrib, 
5 in. long, 3 in. wide, dark green with a few deciduous stellate hairs 
above, densely tomentose with white stellate hairs beneath; petiole 
Lin. long. Inflorescence nearly leaf-opposed, cymose. Calyx cupular, 
densely white stellate hairy outside; teeth 5, triangular, much shorter 
than the tube. Corolla rotate; lobes 5, linear, stellately hairy outside, 
pubescent along the midrib within. Stamens 5; anthers subsessile, 
lanceolate, pores small, terminal. Ovary globose, hairy; style short, 
subulate, Fruit globose, 5 lin. in diam., sulphur-coloured, smooth. 
—Hiern in Journ. Bot. 1895, 74, and Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw, i, 747. 8. 
saponaceum, Welw. Apont. Phyto-Geogr. 551, 588; Ficalho, Pi. 
Uteis, 232 ; Monteiro, Angola, ii. 111, not of Dunal. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; near Quibixe, Welwisch, 6095} 
6095b ! Bumbo: Chella Mountains, Welwitsch, 6040! 
“ Fruit used for washing cloths, &c., instead of soap.’ Monteiro, |.c. 
40. S. sealare, C. H. Wright in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 93. 
Suffruticose. Stem terete, covered with stellate hairs. Leaves ovate- 
oblong, acute or shortly acuminate, undulate, 4 in. long, 2-3 in. wide, 
stellately hairy on both surfaces. Inflorescence extra-axillary, dis- 
tinctly racemose; pedicels about 10, distichous, up to 5 lin. long in 
fruit. Calyx cupular; lobes 5, subulate, covered with stellate hairs. 
Corolla rotate, 5 lin. in diam., white or violet; lobes 5, oblong, twice 
as long as the calyx, stellately hairy outside, glabrous within. Stamens 
5; anthers oblong, subsessile, nearly as long as the corolla-lobes, pores 
terminal. Ovary globose, stellately hairy; style subulate, as long as 
the stamens, covered with stellate hairs. Berry globose, Lin. in diam@., 
smooth, shining red.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 749. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: near Mofari, Scott-Elliot, 4394 ! Sakaro, 
Scott-Elliot, 4898! and without precise locality, Garrett, 18! Gold Coast: 
Aburi, Brown, 320! Lagos: Oshogbo, Moloney! near Lagos, Rowland, 4! 
Northern Nigeria : confluence of the Niger and Benue Rivers, Barter / Southern 
Nigeria: Cross River Expedition, Holland, 188 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; near Sange, Welwitsch, 6088 ! 
near Camilungo, Welwitsch, 6089! palm groves by the River Quibolo, Welwitsch, 
6090! Pungo Andongo; banks of the River Casabalé, Welwitsch, 6104 ! 
41. S. Heudelotii, Dunal in DO. Prodr. xiii. i. 205. A shrub. 
Branches slender; spines reflexed, reddish-yellow. Leaves ovate- 
elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, 6-10 lin. long, 3-5 lin. wide, tomentose 
when young, glabrous or slightly pilose in age; primary veins 2-3 0D 
each side ; petiole 3-4 lin. long. Inflorescence racemose, few-flowered, 
rhachis scurfy tomentose, slightly spiny. Calyx cyathiform, 1} ii. 
