Solanum. | XCI, SOLANACEZ (WRIGHT). 235 
numerous, short, recurved, compressed. Leaves solitary, ovate, pin- 
nately lobed, cordate or acute at the base, 3 in. long, 2 in. broad, 
stellately hairy and with short curved spines on the chief veins on both 
surfaces ; petiole 1 in. long, densely beset with short recurved spines. 
Cymes few-flowered, leaf-opposed. Calyx campanulate, clothed with 
stellate hairs, and numerous smail spines at the base ; lobes 5, broadly 
triangular. Corolla campanulate, 2 in. in diam., stellately hairy out- 
side and along the midrib inside ; lobes 5, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 1 in, 
long, 4 in. wide. Stamens 5; filaments short; anthers lanceolate, 
in. long, pores terminal, small. Ovary globose, stellately hairy ; 
style 1 in. long, thickened and curved above.—Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 
C, 358. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Anjoana Island, Peters. British 
Central Africa: Nyasaland; Blantyre, Buchanan, 86! Scott! Mount Mlanji 
Whyte! Tanganyika-Moero Plateau, Carson, 30! Zomba and vicinity, Whyte ; 
2800-3500 ft., Whyte! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 494! 
Also in Madagascar. 
71. S. marginatum, Linn. f. Suppl. 147. Ashrub, 3-4 ft. high. 
Stem terete, covered with white stellate tomentum ; spines subulate, 1 
in. long. Leaves ovate, pinnately lobed less than half-way to the mid- 
rib, subcordate at the base, coriaceous, 3-7 in. long, 2-5 in. wide, 
covered with fine white stellate pubescence which in age disappears 
from the upper surface except near the margin, spines on the principal 
veins often 1 in. long. Cymes extra-axillary, subumbellate ; pedicels, 
outside of calyx and corolla covered with white stellate tomentum. 
Calyx campanulate, 4 lin. long, 5-fid, spiny; lobes narrow, acute. 
Corolla broadly campanulate, 1} in. in diam., white, centre and midrib 
pink. Stamens 5; filaments very short; anthers } in. long, pores 
terminal. Fruit globose, 14 in. in diam., shining yellow.—Jacq. Collect. 
1, 50, and Ie. t. 45; Murr. Comm. Gotting. vi. (1783), t. 4; Dunal, 
Hist. Solan. 215, t. 3, fig. A, and in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 370 ; Bot. Mag. 
t. 1928; Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 332. S. abyssinicwm, Jacq. ex Vitm. 
Summa Pl. i. 492. §. nivewm, All. ex Vitm. lc. ° 
Wile Land. Abyssinia; near Adowa, Schimper, 181! Samen; Genausa, 
Schimper, 1316! Chelicut, Petit, 228! Eritrea ; Saganeiti, Schweinfurth § Riva, 
830! Hamasen ; Sasega, Steudner, 716! 
72. S. dubium, Fresen. Mus. Senck. i. 166. Shrubby. Branches 
exuose, spiny or unarmed, clothed with whitish leprose tomentum. 
aves long petioled, the upper geminate unequally cordate, ovate or 
ovate-lanceolate, repand-sinuate, acuminate or obtuse, with adpressed 
stellate tomentum on both surfaces, pale green above, white beneath, 
4 by2 in. Cymes short, few-flowered. Calyx cyathiform or campanu- 
late, } in. in diam., spiny. Corolla violet, stellately hairy outside, 
Plicate, 5-fid; lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute, reflexed. Stamens 9, one 
longer than the rest; anthers oblong, obtuse, pore terminal. Ovary 
globose, hirsute at the apex; style thickened upwards, declinate. 
y globose, }-} in. in diam., yellow, nearly covered by the inflated 
