Solanum. | XCI. SOLANACEE (WRIGHT). 241 
depressed, globose, yellow, glabrous, size of a pigeon’s egg.—Klotzsch 
in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 235 ; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 355. 8. 
suaveolens, Boj. Hort. Maurit. 239, partly, not of Kunth & Bouché. 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Peters. German East Africa: several localities, 
ex Engler. 
Var. sinuato-repandum, Dunal, Lc. 345. Branches fuscous, naked at the base. 
Leaves lanceolate, sinuate-repand. Racemes 2-fid; flowers many, crowded. Style 
glabrous.—Klotzsch, l.c. 285. S. suaveolens, Bojer, l.c., partly. 
Mozamb. Dist. German Kast Africa: Usambara, ex Engler, Portuguese 
aah Africa : Lower Zambesi at Tete, and on the mainland and island of Mozambi ue, 
eters. 
Also in the Mascarene Islands. 
86. S. monotanthum, Dammer in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 474. A 
shrub, about 3 ft. high. Branches elongated, densely stellate-tomen- 
tose, spines compressed, recurved. Leaves ovate, undulate-repand, 
6 in. long, 24 in. broad, scabrid on both surfaces, green above, paler 
and spiny on the midrib beneath; petiole 14 in. long. Inflorescence 
extra-axillary, racemose; lowest flower in the axil of the raceme; 
rhachis densely stellate-pilose ; lowest pedicel spiny, the rest unarmed, 
up to $ in. long. Calyx cup-shaped, angled; teeth 4, subulate. 
Corolla violet, 1 in. in diam. ; lobes 4, long ovate-lanceolate, stellately 
hairy outside. Stamens 4; filaments short, glabrous; anthers } in. 
long, tapering upwards. Ovary globose, glabrous; style a little longer 
than the stamens. Fruit 5 lin. in diam. Seeds reniform, tuberculate. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Khutu Steppe, Goetze, 113. 
87. S. hybridum, Jacq. Hort. Vind. ii. 51, t. 113. A branched 
shrub, 2-5 ft. high. Stem terete, glabrous; spines small, distant, 
compressed ; branches tomentose. Leaves geminate, ovate, acute, 
Sinuate or entire, 3 in. long, 2 in. wide, stellately tomentose on both 
Surfaces, petioled. Cymes racemose, umbellate or reduced to a single 
flower. Calyx tumentose ; tube spiny ; lobes linear-lanceolate. Corolia 
1 in. in diam., pale purple, 5-fid ; lobes broadly triangular. Stamens 
half as long as the corolla-lobes. Berry pendulous, subrotund, 1 in. in 
diam.., orange-red.—Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 298. 
Guinea. Ex Dunal. 
Nile Land. Gallabat: near Hammad, Schweinfurth, 1387 ! 
88. S. cerasiferum, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 365. Stem 
branched, cylindrical, minutely stellately hairy; spines generally 
Straight. Leaves oblong, acute, 2} in. long, 1} in. wide, pinnately 
lobed, furnished with minute stellate hairs and a few rigid spines on 
both surfaces, Cymes racemose. Calyx campanulate, 10-ribbed, densely 
stellately hairy, sparingly spiny; lobes 5, ovate-lanceolate. Corolla 
campanulate, 3 in. in diam., violet, densely stellately hairy outside ; 
obes 5, lanceolate, acute. Stamens 5; anthers } in. long, subsessile. 
Ovary subglobose, hairy at the apex; style terete, elongate, covered 
with stellate hairs. Berry yellow.—Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 356. 
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