Solanum. | XCI, SOLANACE& (WRIGHT), 227 
hirsute, } in. long, recurved at the apex.—JS. teitense, Dammer in Engl. 
Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 353. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: desert between Ndi Mountain and the 
River Tsavo, Hildebrandt, 2605. 
48. S. sepicula, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 283. A slender 
shrub. Stem glabrous; spines short, recurved from a broad com- 
pressed base. Leaves pinnately lobed, 14 in, long; lobes 1-2 lin. wide, 
glabrous. Cymes racemose, extra-axillary; pedicels thickened upwards. 
Calyx cupular; Jobes 5, triangular. Corolla rotate, slightly pubescent 
outside ; lobes 5, linear, acute, } in. long, 1-nerved. Stamens 5, nearly 
as long as the corolla-lobes; anthers subsessile, lanceolate, pores small, 
terminal. Ovary globose; style rather longer than the anthers, fur- 
nished with simple hairs below. Berry red, } in, in diam., pendulous. 
—Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 327 ; Kew Bulletin, 1894, 337. S. Palmetorum, 
Dunal, l.c. 282. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia; Efat, Roth, 446! Alinamboo, Roth, 447! Somali- 
land, Miss Edith Cole ! 
Also in Arabia. 
49. S. stipitato-stellatum, Dammer in Engl. Pyl. Ost-Afr. O. 353. 
A shrub about 6 ft. high. Branches slender, terete, sparingly spiny, 
with rusty stellate tomentum on the younger parts; spines straight, 
slender, 1-2 lin. long, woody below, densely covered with stalked 
stellate hairs. Leaves lanceolate, with rusty stellate tomentum on both 
surfaces, undulate, spiny on the midrib ; petiole 2-3 lin. long. Cymes 
racemose, extra-axillary, few-flowered; peduncle and pedicels covered 
with stellate tomentum, slightly spiny. Calyx 5-partite, pale blue, 1 in. 
in diam. ; lobes stellately tomentose outside. Filaments short ; anthers 
} in. long, attenuate upwards. Ovary subglobose, glabrous ; style 5 lin. 
long, glabrous ; stigma obliquely bifid. Berry ellipsoid, 7 lin. long, 4 lin. in 
diam.—Engl. Glied. Veg. Usambara, 63. 
Mozamb. Dist. (German East Africa: Usambara ; Kwa Mshuza, Holst, 
9121! British East Africa: near Maji Chumois, Kassner, 472! 
50. S. rigescens, Jacq. Hort. Schenbr. i. 19, t. 42. Stem 
shrubby, 2 ft. high, erect, terete; spines 2 lin. long, subulate from a 
broad base; branches stellately hairy when young. Leaves ovate in 
general outline, sinuately 5—7-lobed, with stellate hairs on both surfaces, 
those on the upper having one ray much longer than the rest, spiny on 
the chief nerves, unequal at the base, 3 by 2 in.; lobes entire, obtuse. 
Cymes racemose, few-flowered. Calyx-tube cup-shaped; lobes linear, 
2 lin. long. Corolla violet or deep purple, 10 lin. in diam., widely 
campanulate, hairy outside and on the midrib inside; lobes broadly 
triangular, about } in. leng; filaments short; anthers 4 in. long, 
oblong-lanceolate, pores small, terminal. Style 4 in. long, thickened 
and curved upwards. Berry } in. in diam., globose, black or reddish, 
smooth.—Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 301; C. H. Wright in Dyer, FI. 
Cap. iv. 13.96. $. rubetorum, Dunal, 1.c. 304. 
