Solanum. | XCI, SOLANACEZ (WRIGHT). 229 
54. S. giganteum, Jacq. Collect. iv. 125, and Ic. t. 328. A shrub 
or tree up to 25 ft. high. Branches terete, tomentose; spines }—1} lin. 
long, broad-based, much compressed. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, acute, 
4-7 in. long, 14-3 in. wide, unarmed, glabrous above, white tomentose 
beneath. Cymes terminal, corymbose, many-flowered. Calyx cyathi- 
form, 1} lin.in diam. ; lobes 5, ovate-cuneate, acute or shortly acuminate. 
Corolla 4-5 lin. in diam., white tomentose outside, glabrous within, 
violet-purple; lobes 5, lanceolate, acuminate, 2 lin. long. Stamens 5, uni- 
form, about half as long as the corolla ; anthers 1 lin. long, pore small, 
terminal. Ovary globose, glabrous. Berry the size of a pea, glabrous, 
shining red.—Dunal, Hist. Solan. 202 and in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 258 ; Bot. 
Mag. t. 1921; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 47 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. 
f. Fl Brit. Ind. iv. 233 ; Engl. Glied. Veg. Usambara, 52; C. H. Wright 
in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 94. 8. nivewm, Thunb. Prodr. 36; Vahl, Symb. 
i. 41. §. farinosum, Wall. Cat. 2610. S. argenteum, Heyne ex Wall. 
l.c., not of Dunal. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper, 1338! Uganda: between Nandi and 
Kakanagas, 4000-4500 ft., Whyte! and without precise locality, Wilson, 132! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara, Kwa Mshuza, Holst, 
9031! Transvaal: Pisang Kops, Zoutpans Berg, Nelson, 356! 
Also in South Africa and India. 
dd. S. Renschii, Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 328. A shrub or 
Subshrub. Stem terete, covered when young with ashy-white 
stellate hairs; spines 2 lin. long, broad-based. Leaves solitary or 
geminate, ovate-oblong or elliptic, obtuse, 2-3 in. long, 1} in. wide, 
cuneate at the base, dark green above, paler beneath, stellately hairy on 
both surfaces, more densely on the lower; petiole ? in. long. Cymes 
corymbose, leaf-opposed ; pedicels incrassate. Calyx cupular, 2 lin. 
long, Stellately hairy outside, unarmed; lobes 5, obtuse. Corolla 5- 
partite, stellately hairy outside, glabrous within ; lobes linear, acute, 
4 in. long. Stamens 5; anthers subsessile, oblong, pores terminal. 
Ovary globose, glabrous; style rather longer than the stamens, glabrous. 
Berry globose, 4 in. in diam., brownish-yellow, shining—Engl. Pf. 
Ost-Afr, C. 352. 
Mile Land. bSritish East Africa: Mount Ndi, Hildebrandt, 2484! Scott- 
Elliot, 6216! Ukamba; Kitui, Hildebrandt, 2735! Sultan Lamond, Kédssner, 656 ! 
Makindu River, 3200 ft., Kéassner, 565! Taveta, near Kilimanjaro, 2000 ft. ; 
Johnston ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: near Tete, Kirk ! 
56. S. vagans, C.H. Wright in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 128. Stem woody, 
branched, terete, furnished with minute brown stellate hairs; spines 
short, compressed, recurved from a broad base. Leaves solitary, oblong- 
lanceolate, entire or lobed, acute or acuminate, 3 in. long, 1 in. wide, 
tapering towards the base, covered on both surfaces with small brownish 
stellate hairs ; petiole 4 in. long. Cymes extra-axillary. Calyx cupular, 
4-toothed and -ribbed, stellately brown pubescent outside. Corolla 
rotate ; tube shorter than the calyx; lobes 4, ligulate, 4 in. long, 1 lin. 
