Solanum. | XCI, SOLANACEE (WRIGHT). 225 
in diam., 5-fid, unarmed, accrescent ; teeth acute. Corolla 5-partite, 
6-7 lin. in diam.; lobes oblong, slightly reflexed, glabrous inside, 
tomentose outside. Stamens 5, erect; filaments very short; anthers 
2 lin. long. Style filiform, twice as long as the stamens; stigma sub- 
capitate. Berry globose, glabrous, } in. in diam., orange ? 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 417! 
42. S. macracanthun, 4. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 106. A much- 
branched, very spiny herb, Branches terete, covered with stellate 
hairs ; spines robust, straight, yellow, glabrous. Leaves oblong-oval, 
obtuse, subentire or sinuate-pandurate, 1 in. long, stellately hairy on 
both surfaces and spiny on the midrib, petioled. Cymes lateral, few- 
flowered. Calyx 5-fid, hirsute, aculeate. Corolla-lobes ovate-lanceolate, 
acute, hirsute. Berry the size of a cherry, orange, glabrous. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Shoa, Petit, 
3. S. albicaule, Kotschy ex Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 204. 
A shrub. Stem terete, slender, covered when young with white 
stellate tomentum; spines compressed, recurved. Leaves ovate, 
acuminate, sometimes slightly lobed with stellate hairs on both sur- 
faces, up to 14 in. long and 1 in. wide; petiole } as long as the blade. 
Inflorescence extra-axillary, racemose, usually bifid; lower pedicels 
deciduous, leaving black scars. Calyx short, campanulate, 5-fid, 
Stellately tomentose outside. Corolla rotate, stellately tomentose 
outside; lobes 5, linear, 5 lin. long. Stamens 5; filaments very 
short; anthers with terminal pores. Ovary globose, glabrous; style 
of lower flowers shorter than the anthers, of terminal longer. 
Berry pendulous, globose, } in. in diam., glabrous.—Schweinf. in 
Verh, Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, xv. (1865) 551; Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 
326; Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 352; Zarb in Cat. Spéc. Bot. Pfund, 31. 
S. scindicum, Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixy. 542. 
Nile Land. Nubia: Sotmba Mountains, Schweinfurth; Uaratab Mountains, 
Suakim, Schweinfurth, 1362! Hor Tamanib, Lord, 2! 37! Sea-coast, Bent / 
Kordofan, Kotschy, 309! 418! Pfund, 107 ! 373! 646! Eritrea; Mount Ghedem, 
near Massowa, 500-1000 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 82! Abyssinia, Plowden ! 
Somaliland: Darror and Harradigit, James h Thrupp! 
Also from Scinde to Egypt. 
44. S, kwebense, V.#. Br. An erect branching shrub, 4-5 ft. 
high. Branches rather slender, 1-1} lin. thick, at first densely covered 
with close white or pale yellow stellate tomentum, then pruinose, 
finally glabrous, unarmed or with a few small spines. Leaves lanceo- 
late or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, broadly cuneate or acute at the base, 
thinly covered with minute stellate adpressed hairs above, more densely 
so beneath, at length nearly glabrous on both surfaces. Cymes small, 
2-7- (sometimes 1-) flowered, stellately tomentose ; peduncles 1}-4 lin. 
long; pedicels 2-6 lin. long. Calyx campanulate, 1} lin. long, 
stellately tomentose outside, 5-lobed nearly half-way down; lobes 
deltoid-ovate, subacute. Corolla rotate or reflexed, 5-lobed, white or 
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