236 XCI, SOLANACE# (WRIGHT). [ Solanum. 
spiny calyx.—Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 332 (incl. var. longipetiolatum, 
sub-vars. aculeatum and subinerme), not of Hist. Solan. 240; A. Rich. 
Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 104; Schweinf. Pl. Nilot. 24, t. 8, and in Verh, 
Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, xv. (1865) 551; Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 331; 
Zarb in Cat. Spéc. Bot. Pfund, 31; Terrace. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, 
v. 103. 
Wile Land. Nubia: by the Nile between Shendy and Berber, Bromfield, 
127! Soturba Mountains, Schweinfurth, 1877! 1373! Coast region, Lord! 
Bent ! Sudan : Khartoum, Kotschy, 344, Broun! Kordofan: Abu Gerad, Kotschy, 
39! Bareus, Pfund, 473! Jebel Kurbag, Pfund, 356! Kagmar, Pfund, 104, Sigei, 
Pfund, 248! Darfur : Gebel Barkin, Pfund, 652! Sennar, Kotschy, 263! Eritrea: 
Shoho, Quartin Dillon, Riippell. 
Also in Arabia. 
Dunal’s two subvariet'es are connected by Pfund, 473. 
73. S. Fischeri, Dammer in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 353. Stem 
covered with rusty stellate tomentum; spines few, straight, 2 lin. 
long, compressed, pale yellow, stellately tomentose at the base. Leaves 
lanceolate, sinuate-repand, acuminate, oblique at the base, 5 in. long, 
1} in. wide, stellately tomentose on both surfaces; petiole 7—10 Jin. 
long, channelled above, bearing a few short spines. Cymes extra- 
axillary, racemose; peduncle and pedicels stellately tomentose, more 
or less spiny. Calyx 5-partite, stellately tomentose, spiny; lobes 
subulate. Corolla rotate, rather more than 1 in. in diam., lilac, 
plicate, 5-fid; lobes triangular-lanceolate, stellately tomentose outside 
the midpetaline areas, Filaments short; anthers equal, 4 in. long, 
slightly tapering towards the apex. Style a little longer than the 
stamens, stellately tomentose beyond the middle. Berry globose, 10 lin. 
in diam., slightly exserted from the enlarged calyx. 
im Mozamb. Dist. (ierman East Africa: Kageyi on Lake Victoria, Fischer, 
6. 
74. S. obliquum, Dammer in Engl. PA. Ost-Afr. C. 354. Stem 
slender, terete, minutely stellate pubescent ; spines few, straight, com- 
pressed, 1 lin. long, hairy in the lower half. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 
slightly sinuous, very unequal at the base, 34 in. long, 1} in. wide: 
upper surface green and with minute scabrid stellate hairs; under- 
surface ashy-grey with stellate hairs ; petiole 7 lin. long, here and there 
spiny. Cymes extra-axillary, racemose, many-flowered ; peduncle, 
pedicels and outside of calyx densely stellately pubescent. Calyx 
cupular; lobes 5, oblong-lanceolate, 2 lin. long, 1 lin. wide. Corolla 
rotate, plicate, about 1 in. in diam.; lobes 5, acute, stellately pubescent 
outside the midpetaline areas, Filaments very short; anthers } in. 
long, pores terminal. Ovary globose; style clavate, 3 in. long, stel- 
vet hairy in the lower half; stigma oblique. Berry globose, } in. 1 
iam. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Dar-es-Salaam, Stuhlmann, 7576. 
75. S. urbanianum, Dammer in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C.. 365. & 
shrub. Branches slender, terete, covered with very minute stellate 
