Solanum. | XCI. SOLANACEZ (WRIGHT). 231 
partite; lobes subulate, 1} lin. long. Corolla bright blue, 5-partite, 
3 in. in diam., scarcely plicate ; lobes linear-lanceolate, } in. long, 1 lin. 
wide, acuminate, rusty tomentose outside the midpetaline areas. Fila- 
ments very short; anthers } in. long, attenuate towards the apex. 
Ovary globose; style filiform, glabrous, } in. long. Berry ellipsoid, 
3 in. long, } in. in diam. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa; Usambara; Masheua, Bumko, Holst, 
8834. 
60. S. unguiculatum, 4. 2ich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 102. A spiny 
densely tomentose shrub. Branches terete; spines recurved, wide- 
based. Leaves solitary or geminate, oval, acute or subobtuse, obsoletely 
sinuate, unequally cordate at the base, with yellowish-green tomentum 
on both surfaces or sometimes paler beneath, petiolate. Cymes lateral, 
few-flowered ; peduncle long, tomentose ; lowest flower alone fertile, on 
a longer reflexed pedicel. Calyx tomentose, spiny, 5-fid; lobes triangular, 
acute. Corolla the same size as that of S. tuberosum, 5-partite; lohes 
lanceolate, acute, densely tomentose outside, slightly tomentose within. 
—Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 91, and in Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, 
xv. (1865) 551; Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 332. 
Nile Land. Nubia: Soturba Mountains, Schweinfurth, Abyssinia ; Shireh 
Province, Quartin-Dillon & Petit. 
61. S. Rohrii, C. H. Wright in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 128. A small 
shrub, Stem terete, covered with long-rayed stellate hairs; spines 
numerous, { in. long, straight, compressed. Leaves solitary, lanceolate, 
4 in. long, 2 in. wide, slightly undulate, with stellate hairs on both sur- 
faces, those on the upper surface with one ray much longer than the 
rest. Cymes extra-axillary. Oalyx 4-lobed almost to the base, hairy 
and spiny outside; lobes linear, 2 lin. long. Corolla } in. in diam., 
4-partite, densely white stellate hairy outside ; lobes lanceolate. Stamens 
4; anthers sessile, slightly shorter than the corolla-lobes, tapering up- 
wards, pores terminal. Ovary globose; style terete, stellately hairy. 
Berry globose, 4 in. in diam., glabrous, red. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Ankober, Roth (not Rohr, as in original description), 
re “ Somaliland, Miss Edith Cole! Uganda: Kavirondo, 4100-6000 ft., 
yte | 
x; ora Dist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland; Mwata Manja stream, 
Uw”, f 
62. S. torvum, Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 47. A shrub, 3-10 ft. 
h. Branches terete, covered with white stellate tomentum when 
young; spines compressed, } in. long. Leaves geminate (one much 
smaller), ovate, 6 in. long, 4 in. wide, more or less pinnately lobed, un- 
equal at the base; petiole 1 in. long, spiny. Cymes extra-axillary, 
much branched, at first nearly umbellate ; pedicels with glandular hairs. 
alyx cupular, glandular hairy; segments lanceolate. Corolla rotate, 
white, 1 in. in diam., stellately hairy outside in bud; lobes 5, ovate- 
lanceolate. Filaments 1 lin. long ; anthers } in. long, linear-lanceolate ; 
Pores terminal, small. Ovary globose, glabrous; style longer than the 
