238 XCI, SOLANACES (WRIGHT). [ Solanum. 
surface green, scabrid with very minute stellate hairs and bearing 
scattered spines | lin. long; lower surface with rusty stellate pubescence, 
sometimes spiny ; margin sometimes slightly sinuate ; petiole short, with 
stellate pubescence and scattered spines. Cymes racemose, at first 
apparently terminal, few-flowered ; peduncle and pedicels unarmed, 
clothed with rusty stellate hairs; pedicels slender, 1 in. long. Calyx 
cupular, 5-toothed ; teeth 2 lin. long. Corolla pale blue, rotate, plicate, 
5-partite, 14 lin. in diam. ; lobes lanceolate, acute, stellately hairy out- 
side the midpetaline areas. Filaments very short; anthers elongate, 
attenuate upwards. Ovary globose; style 5 lin. long, filiform, glandular 
hairy below. Berry ellipsoid, 7 lin. long, 5 lin. in diam., yellow? 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Nderema, Holst, 2231, 
Gonja, Holst, 4231. 
79. S. incanum, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 188. A shrub 3-5 ft. high, 
with dense stellate tomentum on the branches, petioles, underside of 
leaves and outside of calyx and corolla. Branches terete; spines few 
or many, 2 lin. long, curved, broad at the base. Leaves ovate or ovate- 
elliptic, sinuate, 5 by 2-3 in., obtuse, green and minutely stellately hairy 
on the upper surface, unequal at the base, sometimes spiny on the midrib 
and nerves; petiole 15 lin. long. Flowers solitary or few together (the 
lower only fertile), cernuous ; peduncle short. Calyx spiny outside, cup- 
shaped ; lobes lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla purple or white, }-1} 
in, in diam. ; lobes ovate, acute. Filaments very short; anthers 2} 
lin. long, oblong, pores small, terminal. Style longer than the stamens. 
Fruit subglobose, 14 in. in diam., yellow.-C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. 
Cap. iv. ii. 101. S. coagulans, Forsk. Fl, Aigypt.-Arab. 47; Del. Fi. 
Egypte, 63, t. 23, fig. 7; Schenk, Pl. Sp. Algypt. 24; Boiss. F]. Orient. 
iv. 286; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 236; var. grisewm, 
Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 369. S. sanctwm, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 269. 
S. esculentum, Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 49, 138, 139, 151, 
not of Dunal. SS. subexarmatum, Dunal, |.c. 367. S. Melongena, C. B. 
Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 235, partly, not of Linn. 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria: Jeba on the Kworra (Niger), Barter! 
Wile Land. Nubia: Schweinfurth, 1388! Bent / Kordofan, Kotschy, 454! 
Obeid, Pfund, 8! Darfur, Pfund, 106! Sennar, Kotschy, 231! Blue Nile, neat 
Masheika, Muriel, S 31! UHritrea: near Acrur, Schweinfurth & Riva, 1343! near 
Ailet, Sehweinfurth & Riva, 445! Abyssinia : near Jelajeranne, Schimper, 1574! 
Somaliland: Golis Range, Miss Edith Cole! Jur: Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, iii, 
89! Uganda: Busoga villages, Whyte! 5th march from Lubwas, Whyte? 
Kavirondo, Whyte! British East Africa: Kikuyn, Whyte! near Nairobi, Whyte! 
Makindu River, Kdssner, 580 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Benguela, Curror, 12! 
Mozamb, Dist. (ierman East Africa: Usambara, Buchwald, 93! British 
Central Africa: Ngamiland, Kwebe Hills, Mrs. Lugard, 18! 
Also in South Africa and extending throagh Arabia to Scinde and the Punjaub. 
An almost glabrous form of this was collected at Gallabat by Schweinfurth 
(1365 !) and in Kordofan by Pfund (149!). 
