Solanum. } XCI. SOLANACEE (WRIGHT). 243 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Vogel, 52! North-east from Sierra Leone, 
Garrett, 22! Togo: near Lome, Warnecke, 351! 
Lower Guinea. Angolu: near Sange, Welwitsch, 6091! by the River 
Cuango, Welwitsch, 6092! by the River Luinha in Queta, Welwitsch, 6093! Banza 
do Sobato Bango, Welwitsch, 6094! by the Quiriri River above Sakkemecho, 
3900 ft., Baum, 725! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Amboni, Holst, 2829 ! 
91. S. kitivuense, Dammer in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 353 
Branches slender, terete, stellately tomentose; spines straight or 
slightly reflexed, 1 in. long. Leaves ovate, oval or lanceolate, obtuse 
or acute, sinuate-repand, 24 in. long, 1} in. wide, green and stellately 
pubescent above, rusty stellate-tomentose beneath, more or less spiny 
on both surfaces; petiole 7 lin. long, spiny, stellate-tomentose. Racemes 
extra-axillary; peduncle and pedicels stellate-tomentose, spiny here 
and there. Calyx cupular, stellate-tomentose outside, 5-partite; lobes 
2 lin. long, subulate. Corolla rotate, 10 lin. in diam., stellate-tomen- 
tose outside; lobes linear, acute, 5 lin. long, 1 lin. wide. Filaments 
short; anthers } in. long, tapering to the apex. Ovary subglobose, 
glabrous ; style glabrous, 5 lin. long; stigma oblique, bifid. Immature 
berry ellipsoid. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usaramo; Bunbe, Stuhlmann, 7026; 
Usambara ; Kitivu, Holst, 276. 
92. S. aculeastrum, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 366. A shrub, 
7-15 ft. high ; stem terete, with short dense white stellate tomentum on 
the younger parts; spines very large, 3 in. long, compressed, recurved. 
Leaves geminate or ternate, green above, with dense white stellate 
tomentum beneath and spines on the midrib. Cymes extra-axillary, 
racemose, lowest flower alone fertile. Calyx cupular, 5-fid, enlarged in 
fruit; lobes 2 lin. long, spiny and covered with stellate tomentum 
outside. Corolla rotate, 5-lobed; lobes linear, 1-nerved, 3 in. long, 
1 lin. broad, white or yellowish, stellately hairy outside, glabrous within. 
Stamens 5; filaments very short; anthers } in. long, pores terminal, 
small, Ovary globose, stellately hairy; style short. Berry globose, 
2 in. in diam., smooth, yellow.—C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. 11. 
rm S. sodomaeum, Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 147, not of 
inn. 
Mozamb. Dist. Uganda: Nandi, 7000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6977! between 
Nandi and Kakamagas, 4000-4500 ft., Whyte! Ruwenzori forest, 8000 ft., Scott- 
Elliot, 7778! British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Blantyre, Scott! Shire High- 
lands, Buchanan, 138! Mount Sochi, Meller, 5! forest between Lake Shirwa and 
Lake Chiuta, Cunningham, 25! 
“The natives eat the outer part of the fruit, which, when ripe, is yellow and 
hard. The inner portion is dreadfully bitter.’”— Buchanan. 
Also in South Africa. 
93. S. duplosinuatum, Alotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamh. Bot. 
233. A shrub, about 3 ft. high. Stem covered when young with stellate 
