230 XCI. SOLANACEH (WRIGHT). | Solanwm. 
wide, stellately brown hairy outside. Stamens 4; filaments short; 
anthers 5 lin. long, lanceolate, pores terminal, minute. Ovary globose; 
style shorter than the stamens. 
Wile Land. Eritrea: Keren, Steudner, 722! 
Mozamhb. Dist. German East Africa: Dar es Salaam, Kirk ! 
A specimen collected in Buddu, Uganda, by Dawe (230) differs in having louger 
calyx-lobes, 
57. S. zanzibarense, Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 326. A subscandent 
shrub, 6-7 ft. high. Branches terete, rufous-tomentose when young, 
ashy when old; spines recurved, compressed, 1 lin. broad, 2-3 lin. long, 
yellow, hairy at the base. Leaves solitary or geminate, oval-oblong, 
obtuse, 2 in. long, 1 in. wide, unequal and rounded or slightly acute at the 
base, sinuately lobed or repand, scaberulous above,‘ paler and stellately 
tomentose beneath; midrib spiny beneath; primary nerves about 3 
pairs, prominent beneath; petiole 5 lin. long; covered with rufous 
tomentum. Cymes umbellate, 4-7-flowered; peduncles nodding in 
flower, erect afterwards. Calyx cyathiform, 1 lin. in diam., unarmed, 
5-fid; lobes ovate, obtuse, 14 lin. long, 4 lin. wide. Corolla lilac, 
patent, 3 in. in diam.; lobes 5, oblong-linear, obtuse. Stamens 4(?), 
shorter than the corolla-lobes; anthers subsessile, conniving, linear- 
oblong, pores terminal. Ovary globose; style erect, glabrous, longer 
than the stamens, slightly curved at the apex; stigma capitate. Berry 
globose, % in. in diam.—Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 353. 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar: Kidoti, Hildebrandt, 988. 
58. S. pharmacum, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 234. 
A much-branched shrub; spines few, recurved. Branches terete, 
tomentum stellate, deciduous. Leaves oblong, 2 in. long, } in. wide, 
obtuse, slightly attenuate at the base, with yellow stellate pubescence 
above and whitish tomentum beneath. Cymes racemose, extra-axillary, 
8-5-flowered, spiny. Calyx-teeth 5, ovate, short. Corolla funnel- 
shaped ; lobes 5, triangular-ovate, obtuse, stellately tomentose outside 
and along the midrib inside. Anthers subsessile, oblong, tapering 
upwards. Style incurved, stellately pilose below; stigma 2-lobed. 
Berry globose, } in, in diam., smooth.— Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 354, and 
Glied, Veg. Usambara, 39, 49. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara, Nderema, Holst, 2236! 
Portuguese East Africa : Mozambique, on the island and mainland, Peters. 
59. S. glochidiatum, Dammer in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 354. A 
shrub, 5 ft. high. Branches terete, slender, elongate, densely covered 
with rusty stellate tomentum ; spines recurved, 1 lin. long, compressed, 
stellately tomentose at the base. Leaves lanceolate or elliptic, repand, 
2 in. long, 7-9 lin. wide, green and stellately pubescent above, ochraceous 
stellate tomentose beneath, spiny on the midrib ; petiole 2—4 lin. long. 
Cymes racemose, extra-axillary, few-flowered ; peduncle, pedicels an 
sometimes the calyx spiny and with minute rusty stellate tomentum ; 
pedicels very slender, 4 in. long, slightly thickened above. Calyx 5r 
