Solanum. | XCI, SOLANACEH (WRIGHT). 233 
Ovary subglobose; style filiform, longer than the anthers. Fruit erect, 
globose, glabrous, red, 5 lin. in diam.—-Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 259 ; 
Hook. Niger. Fl. 473. S. wmbroswm, Vahl ex Dunal, |.c. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Vogel, 87! French Guinea: Sulimavia, 
Scott-Elliot, 5335b! Liberia: Cape Palmas, Vogel, 13! Grand Bassa, Vogel, 83! 
Grant’s Farm, Sinoe River, Whyte! Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 482! 
Lagos: Abeokuta, Harrison, 3! Fernando Po, Vogel, 52! Mann, 1165! 
, Nile Land. Uganda: Busoga villages, Whyte! Kampala, Scott-Elliot, 
290 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Malange, Gossweiler, 1103 ! 
South Central. Congo Free State : Monbuttu ; Kussumbo River, Schwein- 
Surth, 3175! Niamniam; Assika River, Schweinfurth, 3280 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Mount Chiradzulu, 
Whyte ! 
65. S. adoense, Hochst. in Flora, 1841, i. Jntell. 24. A shrub, 
4-5 ft. high. Stem terete, woody, stellately hairy when young, rugose 
when old; spines } in. long, straight, compressed. Leaves solitary or 
geminate, ovate, pinnately 5-7-lobed, 2 in. long, 1} in. wide, stellately 
hairy and spiny on both surfaces, spines more numerous beneath ; 
petiole $ in. long. Cymes racemose; peduncle 1 in. long; pedicels 
2 in. long, erect in flower, pendulous in fruit, clavate, spiny, stellately 
tomentose. Calyx cyathiform, 5-fid, stellately tomentose and slightly 
spiny outside; lobes trianguiar, acute. Corolla white, 5-partite, stel- 
lately tomentose outside, glabrous within ; lobes lanceolate, } in. long. 
Stamens 5; anthers subsessile, 2 lin. long, subulate, pores small, 
terminal. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style filiform, nearly twice as long as 
the stamens. Fruit glovose, 5 lin. in diam., glabrous, orange-red.— 
Danal in DO. Prodr. xiii. i. 282; Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 326 ; Peters, 
Reise Mossamb. Bot. 232 ; Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 353. S. pachycalyzx, 
Van Heurck & Mill. Arg. in Van Heurck, Obs. Bot. 92. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia : near Adowa, Schimper, 147! Franqueville! Mount 
Sholoda, Schimper, 1865! Eritrea : near Saganeiti, 7000 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 
1758! Goua Gorge, near Addingofou, 7000 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1329! 
e Lower Guinea. (German South-west Africa: Amboland ; Olukonda, Schinz, 
2! : 
66. S. Carvalhoi, Dammer in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 399. 
Branches violet, densely covered with rusty stellate tomentum ; spines 
Straight, compressed, 2 lin. long. Leaves ovate, repand, acuminate, 
4 in, long, nearly 3 in. wide, scabrid with stellate hairs above, more 
minutely so beneath, slightly spiny on both surfaces; spines straight, 
compressed, } in. long; petiole 1 in. long, stellately pubescent, spiny. 
Cymes extra-axillary, racemose, short, few-flowered ; peduncle, pedicels 
and calyx very densely stellately hairy. Calyx cupular, 2 lin. in diam. : 
teeth 5, triangular. Corolla 5-partite; lobes 2 lin. long, } lin. wide, 
linear, stellately hairy outside. Filaments short; anthers elongate, 
Scarcely attenuate towards the apex, 2 lin. long. Ovary globose ; style 
. lin. long, filiform, stellately hairy in the lower half. Berry globose, 
2 lin. in diam., shining red. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Gorongoza, Carvalho. 
