240 XCI. SOLANACE2 (WRIGHT). | Solanwm. . 
83. S. magnusianum, Dammer in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 475. 
A shrub about 3 ft. high. Branches flexuous, at first stellately 
tomentose, at length glabrescent ; spines compressed, recurved. Leaves 
ovate, repand, often oblique at the base, green and minutely stellately 
scabrid above, paler and densely stellately tomentose beneath, up to 
4 in, long and 2 in. wide; petiole 10 lin. long, often spiny. Cymes 
racemose ; pedicels and calyx of the fertile flower usually spiny, of the 
sterile usually unarmed. Calyx stellately tomentose outside; lobes 
lanceolate, acute. Corolla ultramarine, up to 1? in. in diam., stellately 
tomentose outside and on the midribs inside; lobes 5, broadly lanceo- 
late. Stamens.5; filaments veryshort; anthers 5 lin. long, lanceolate, 
terminal pores small. Ovary globose ; style ? in. long, stellately hairy ; 
stigma 2-lobed. Fruit globose, 1? in. in diam., orange-yellow, seated 
on the persistent spiny calyx; pedicel incrassate. Seeds reniform, 
tuberculate. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usagara ; at the foot of the Vidunda 
Mountains near Kidodi, Goetze, 384! 
84. S. bathocladon, Dammer in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 476. 
Branches stellately tomentose, at length nearly glabrous; spines re- 
curved, 1-14 lin. long. Leaves ovate, repand or sinuate, 4 in. long, 
24 in. broad, scabrid with stellate hairs above, paler and densely 
tomentose beneath, with straight spines on both surfaces ; petiole about 
1 in. long, with many recurved spines. Cymes extra-axillary, race- 
mose, few-flowered, 14 in. long; peduncle and pedicels spiny, densely 
stellate-tomentose. Calyx 4—5-fid, stellate-tomentose and densely spiny 
outside; lobes 4 in. long, lanceolate. Corolla rotate, violet, plicate, 
1} in. in diam. ; lobes 4-5, broadly ovate, mucronate, densely stellate- 
tomentose outside. Stamens 4-5, equal; filaments glabrous, } lin. 
long; anthers yellow, 5 lin. long, tapering towards the apex. Ovary 
conical, glabrous ; style 7 lin. long, stellate-pilose; stigma 2-lobed. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: East Uluguru; in deserted fields near 
Lussegwa, 1600 ft., Stuhlmann, 8731! 
85. S. Bojeri, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 344. Branches terete, 
covered with pale yellow stellate hairs, unarmed or with a few recurved 
compressed spines. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, subcordate at 
the base, 4—6 in. long, about 2 in. wide, entire or subrepand, stellately 
hairy on both surfaces, yellowish-green above, paler beneath; petiole 
7-8 lin. long. Cymes racemose, simple or bifid ; flowers large, fragrant, 
lowest alone fertile, the other 4-5 male; peduncle, pedicels, outside 
of calyx and corolla covered with pale yellow stellate tomentum. Calyx 
broadly campanulate, }-} in. in diam., unarmed in the sterile flowers; 
lobes 5, ovate-cuneate, cuspidate. Corolla 1 in. in diam., lilac, plicate; 
lobes 5, ovate-lanceolate, acute, reflexed, hairy on the midrib inside. 
Stamens 5, equal, }-} in. long; filaments dilated at the base, subcom- 
planate, up to 1 lin. long; anthers oblong-linear, } in. long, dull 
yellow. Ovary ovoid, clothed with rusty tomentum ; style declinate, 
subterete, tomentose except at the apex; stigma capitate. Berry 
