242 XCI. SOLANACEH (WRIGHT). [ Solanum. 
Wile Land. Sennar, Acerbi, ex Dunal. 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Hildebrandt, 987! 
Var. cinereo-tomentosum, Dunal, l.c. Branches, undersurface of leaves, peduncles, 
pedicels and outside of calyx and corolla ashy-grey tomentose. 
Nile Land. Sennar, Kotschy, 333 ! 
89. S. antidotum, Dammer in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 355. A 
shrub. Branches terete, densely covered with stellate hairs; spines 
straight, compressed, hairy at the base, Leaves ovate, slightly sinuate, 
obtuse, mucronate, about 2 in. long, 14 in. wide, densely stellately 
tomentose on both surfaces; nerves very prominent below, shortly 
spiny; petiole 5 lin. long, stellately tomentose, spiny. Calyx cupular ; 
teeth 5, triangular-lanceolate, 14 lin. long. Corolla rotate, 10 lin. in 
diam., deeply 5-lobed; lobes 4 in. long, 2 lin. wide, oblong-oval, densely 
covered with minute stellate hairs outside. Filaments very short; 
anthers } in. long, slightly attenuate towards the apex. Ovary sub- 
globose ; style stellately tomentose at the base. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Pare Moéta, Fischer, 314. 
90. S. Melongena, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 186. A robust herb or 
almost a shrub, spiny. Branches terete, usually dark purple, clothed 
with sessile stellate hairs. Leaves ovate, repand or sinuate, acuminate, 
unequal at the base, 6—9 in. long, 3-5 in. wide, stellately tomentose on 
both surfaces, unarmed, rarely spiny ; petiole 1in. long, spiny. Flowers 
solitary, or few in a cyme with the lowest alone fertile, 5—9-merous. 
Calyx often spiny, } in. in diam., enlarging in fruit; lobes unequal, 
linear-lanceolate. Corolla violet-purple, 1-14 in. in diam., stellately 
hairy on both surfaces; lobes 4—5 lin. long, ‘triangular, acute. Fila- 
ments short; anthers $-} in. long, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, pores 
apical, small. Style 2-3 lin. long, slightly curved, stellately hairy at 
the base. Berry oblong or slightly enlarged above, 6 in. long, black ish- 
purple ; placentas fleshy.—Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 48 ; Sendtn. 
in Mart. Fl. Bras. x. 77; C. B. Clarkein Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 235 
partly; Duthie, Field & Gard. Crops, iii. 31, t. 95; Hiern in Cat. 
Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 748; C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 99; 
Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 496. 8. esculentum, Dunal, Hist. Solan. 
208, t. 3; and in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 355; Engl. Glied. Veg. Usambara, 
22, and Pil. Ost- Ate. 0. S55. _ 8. edule, Schumach. & Thonn. Beskr. 
Guin. Pl. i25; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, 231; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 355. 
Upper Guinea. Lagos, Rowland! Northern Nigeria; Kuka, Vogel, 28! 
Wile Land. Somali Land, Mrs. Lort Phillips ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: near Pembaand near the River Lucala, Welwitsch, 
6083! near Ngombe, Welwitsch, 6084! German South-west Africa: Hereroland, 
Luderitz, 13! 
— a Dist. Zanzibar, Peters. German East Africa: Rovuma River; 
Ur - 
Var, tnerme, Hiern, l.c. Stem woody, unarmed. Stamens 6. Ovary globose, 
4-celled.—8. esculentum, var. inerme, Dunal in DC, Prodr. xiii. i. 355; Baum, 
Kunene Samb. Exped. 361, 443. 
