226 XCI. SOLANACEH (WRIGHT). | Solanum, 
mauve, glabrous inside ; lobes 3 times as long as the tube, 4—5 lin. long, 
14 lin. wide, oblong-lanceolate, subacute. Stamens 5, uniform; fila- 
ments very short; anthers + in. long, linear-oblong, pores terminal. 
Berry globose, about } in. in diam., scarlet. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Ngamiland : Kwebe Hills, 3300 ft- 
Lugard, 50! Mrs. Lugard, 62! 
45. S. melastomoides, (. 17. Wright in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 128. 
A slender shrub. Stem slender, terete, dark brown, covered with 
white stellate hairs when young; spines straight or slightly curved, 
3-5 lin. long, slightly compressed. Leaves solitary, ovate-oblong or 
oblong, entire or very slightly sinuate, up to 2 in. long and 1} in. wide, 
stellately hairy on both sides, sometimes spiny on the midrib ; petiole 
4 in. long, unarmed or nearly so. Cymes extra-axillary, about 9- 
flowered. Calyx cupular, 2 lin. long, stellately tomentose outside; 
lobes 5, roundish. Corolla broadly campanulate, plicate, 1} in. i 
diam., stellately hairy outside the midpetaline areas. Stamens 5; four 
filaments 4 lin. long, the fifth }in.; anthers } in. long, obtuse, pores 
slightly oblique. Style rather longer than the stamens, hooked and 
thickened at the apex. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Boobi and Harradigit, James § Thrupp ! Dooloo, 
Miss Edith Cole, 
46. S. hastifolium, Hochst. ex Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 284. 
A shrub. Stem slender, terete, sparingly hairy; spines short, re- 
curved, compressed. Leaves hastate or more or less pinnately lobed, 
1} in. long, } in. wide, with scattered stellate hairs on both surfaces, 
unarmed. Inflorescence lateral and terminal on the branches, racemose 
or reduced to asingle flower. Calyx 5-fid, stellately hairy ; lobes acute. 
Corolla 5-partite, stellately hairy outside; lobes narrow, acute, ? lin. 
long. Stamens 5; anthers subsessile, rather shorter than the corolla- 
lobes, lanceolate, pores small, terminal. Ovary globose; style much 
longer than the anthers. Berry globose, smooth, } in. in diam. 
Wile Land. Kordofan: on various mountains, Kotschy, 71! 393! Pfund, 
330! 342! 643! Sennar: Abu Harras, Schweinfurth, 1401! Abyssinia : Jaja, 
4000 ft., Schimper, 2328! Uganda: near Lake Baringo, Johnston / : 
A more robust hairy form with larger subentire leaves was collected on mountains 
near Gageros, in Abyssinia, by Schimper (2327a!). This species has been confuse 
with §. trilobatum, Linn., which does not appear to occur in Tropical Africa. 
47. S. taitense, Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 327. A much-branched 
shrub. Branches glabrous ; spines few, compressed, slightly recurve? 
Leaves ovate or linear-lanceolate, obtuse, entire or slightly repan®s 
stellately tomentose on both sides, 1 in. long. Flowers solitary or ™ 
pairs; peduncle filiform, 5 lin. long, tomentose. Calyx shortly cUP- 
shaped, unarmed, 5-partite; lobes linear from an ovate base, obtuse. 
Corollaztwice as long as the calyx, 5 lin. in diam., deeply 5-lobed; lobes 
attenuate, rather obtuse, } in. long, } lin. wide, stellately tomentos 
outside, glabrous within. Stamens 5, shorter than the corolla ; anther 
subsessile, oblong-linear, suhconnivent, pores terminal. Style filiform, 
